Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. NTT DATA North America is a global business and technology services organization. The company is seeking a Senior IT Project Manager / Application Transition Lead to provide IT leadership, oversight, governance, and readiness assurance across application transition initiatives related to an acquisition carve-out. The role coordinates stakeholders, manages dependencies and risks, drives IT actions to closure, and ensures applications transition successfully into operational support.
Responsibilities
- Serve as the primary IT lead and point of accountability for an assigned portfolio of application transition and implementation initiatives
- Ensure each assigned application has:
- Clear business and IT ownership
- Appropriate delivery leadership
- A defined project plan or workplan
- Clear milestones and dependencies
- Identified IT activities and resources
- A defined implementation approach
- Clear operational and support ownership
- Assess the delivery model and determine the appropriate level of IT involvement required for each application initiative
- Provide IT oversight across both IT-led and business-led initiatives, adapting the level of involvement based on project complexity, risk, and delivery structure
- Ensure applications progress through the transition lifecycle with appropriate governance, ownership, planning, and readiness
- Partner with assigned Project Managers and Business Leads to maintain visibility into project plans, milestones, risks, dependencies, decisions, resources, and outstanding IT actions
- Provide oversight and readiness assurance without duplicating the day-to-day responsibilities of dedicated Project Managers
- Review project and application plans to identify gaps, missing activities, unclear ownership, dependencies, and potential delivery risks
- Drive unresolved IT actions and decisions to closure in partnership with appropriate stakeholders
- Ensure appropriate escalation and intervention when applications lack sufficient planning, ownership, resources, decisions, or readiness
- Coordinate multiple concurrent initiatives while maintaining appropriate prioritization and focus
- Dive into application-level details as required to identify delivery gaps, clarify requirements, confirm dependencies, establish ownership, and resolve outstanding issues
- Assess and confirm readiness throughout the application transition lifecycle, including, as applicable:
- Business and technical requirements
- Solution approach and architecture
- Infrastructure and hosting
- Security and access
- Data requirements
- Interfaces and integrations
- Environment readiness
- Testing and validation
- Deployment and cutover
- Documentation
- Knowledge Transfer (KT)
- Operational support and ownership
- Coordinate and drive completion of required IT activities, particularly for business-led initiatives that do not have a dedicated IT Project Manager
- Identify cross-application dependencies and coordinate resolution with appropriate business and technology teams
- Confirm that applications have a clear path from transition planning through implementation and ongoing operational support
- Coordinate across business stakeholders, IT teams, application owners, Project Managers, vendors, and third-party consultants
- Establish strong working relationships with business and technology stakeholders and drive accountability for agreed actions and deliverables
- Facilitate discussions to clarify ownership, requirements, decisions, risks, dependencies, and delivery responsibilities
- Work across multiple functional and technical teams to resolve issues that could impact transition timelines or readiness
- Communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders and translate detailed application issues into clear business and project implications
- Support vendor engagement and coordination activities required for application transition and implementation
- Participate in solution and vendor evaluations as appropriate
- Support the development and review of Statements of Work (SOWs)
- Coordinate with procurement, sourcing, vendors, and internal stakeholders as required
- Track vendor dependencies, deliverables, decisions, and outstanding actions that could affect application readiness
- Help ensure third-party activities remain aligned with transition objectives and timelines
- Maintain portfolio-level visibility across assigned applications and initiatives
- Develop and maintain clear status reporting covering:
- Overall application status
- Transition readiness
- Key milestones
- Risks and issues
- Dependencies
- Decisions
- Outstanding IT actions
- Resource or ownership gaps
- Areas requiring leadership intervention
- Provide concise management and executive-level reporting on application transition progress and readiness
- Identify trends and systemic issues across the application portfolio and recommend appropriate corrective actions
- Proactively escalate applications that lack ownership, plans, resources, required decisions, or sufficient readiness
Skills
- 8+ years of experience leading or coordinating complex IT application initiatives, projects, programs, or portfolios
- 5+ years of demonstrated ability to drive delivery across multiple applications, stakeholder groups, and delivery models
- 5+ years of strong project and program management discipline, including experience assessing and managing:
- Project plans and milestones
- Risks and issues
- Dependencies
- Decisions and actions
- Resource requirements
- Ownership and accountability
- Implementation and operational readiness
- Ability to provide project oversight and governance without needing to act as the dedicated Project Manager for every initiative
- Demonstrated ability to manage multiple concurrent applications while shifting effectively between portfolio-level governance and hands-on application-level problem solving
- Strong understanding of enterprise application delivery and transition activities
- Working knowledge of IT activities across areas such as:
- Infrastructure
- Security
- Application integrations
- Data
- Testing
- Deployment and cutover
- Knowledge transfer
- Operational support
- Experience gathering, clarifying, and translating business requirements and technology needs into actionable plans, decisions, and IT activities
- Strong business relationship management and stakeholder management skills
- Excellent communication, facilitation, coordination, and presentation skills
- Demonstrated ability to establish credibility and drive accountability across business, technical, project, and vendor teams
- Strong analytical and problem-solving capabilities with the ability to identify gaps and proactively drive issues through resolution
- Ability to work independently in a remote, cross-functional, and geographically distributed environment
- Experience supporting mergers and acquisitions (M&A), divestitures, acquisitions, or carve-out programs
- Experience leading or supporting enterprise application transitions, migrations, separations, integrations, or technology transformation programs
- Experience managing application portfolios involving a combination of business-led and IT-led initiatives
- Experience with vendor management, solution evaluation, SOW development, procurement, or third-party delivery coordination
- Experience transitioning applications from project implementation into stable operational support
- Background may include IT Project/Program Management, Application Delivery, Business Systems Analysis, Application Management, Technology Transformation, or similar roles
Benefits
- Remote work arrangement – preference for candidates able to work East Coast USA hours
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