Project Manager (Data Center Migration & Modernization)

Mactores is the agent-native AWS modernization firm. Most modernization work doesn't ship, it stalls in pilots, slips a year, or lands at three times the budget. We exist to ship it: production systems running, legacy retired, outcomes measured. Our delivery is built on Aedeon, the agent platform built by Mactores' founders' sister company, which absorbs the repetitive 60–70% of engagement work, discovery, dependency mapping, validation, test generation, that traditional consulting bills human hours against. Forward-deployed engineers own the rest: architecture, judgment, and cutover, on dates we commit to in the contract.

What you will do

• Lead end-to-end planning and execution of the data center migration to AWS: assessment, discovery, design, migration waves, and stabilization.
• Drive modernization initiatives containerization, refactoring, re-platforming, and automation improvements.
• Develop and maintain project plans, migration wave schedules, RAID logs, communication plans, and status reports.
• Keep activities aligned with cloud adoption frameworks, enterprise architecture guidelines, and the client's business objectives.
• Track scope, priorities, risks, dependencies, delays, and deliverables across multiple workstreams — surface slippage before it costs the date.
• Serve as the primary point of contact between engineering teams, leadership, and client stakeholders.
• Run steering committee meetings, sprint reviews, and technical workstream syncs.
• Align cross-functional teams: cloud architects, network/security teams, DevOps, and application owners.
• Manage vendor relationships and third-party integrators involved in migration execution.
• Run daily stand-ups, sprint planning, and sprint retrospectives.
• Facilitate internal and external architecture discussions and review calls, and document decisions with teams working across India and three US time zones.
• Proactively produce meeting notes and weekly customer presentations; keep project documents and recorded calls organized.
• Review and approve employee timesheets and leaves; manage the team calendar.
• Keep the customer ahead of the project, not behind it — proactively communicate status, risks, and requests.
• Own customer escalations and drive them to resolution.
• Negotiate scope changes with the documentation to back them — a fixed date only holds if scope is managed in writing.

What are we looking for

• 3+ years of proven experience leading data center migration to AWS.
• 5+ years of experience as a Project Manager or Scrum Master with customers in US time zones.
• Strong understanding of AWS cloud services: landing zones, VPC/networking, IAM, EC2, RDS, S3, Lambda, EKS/ECS, and migration tools.
• Expertise in Smartsheet, Jira/Confluence, and Clockify.
• Excellent communication, facilitation, negotiation, and coaching skills.
• Expertise managing internal and external teams.
• Strong prioritization and problem-solving skills.

You will be preferred if you've

• Experience in cloud migration projects on AWS
• Solution Architect Associate Certification
• Professional Scrum Master™ certification
• Managing Jira Projects certification
• Smartsheet Certification

How we work?

Aedeon absorbs the discovery, mapping, and validation work that traditional engagements bill analyst hours against roughly 60–70% of the hours an equivalent-scope consulting proposal staffs for. Forward-deployed engineers embed with the customer and own the cutover. Your job is the connective tissue: wave schedules that hold, risks surfaced with lead time, decisions documented, and a customer who never has to ask "is this on track?" We commit to dates in the contract. You're the person who makes those dates boring.