About the job

Description

Project Manager – Data Migration

Yeovil

8-month contract

Paying up to £650p/d (Outside IR35)

Responsibilities:

• End-to-end delivery of the migration programme (Exchange & file data) from planning through to post-migration support.
• Define and own the overall project plan for Exchange Online and file data migration workstreams, including scope, timeline, budget, and deliverables.
• User home directories and departmental/shared drives into OneDrive, SharePoint Online, and Teams.
• Migration strategy and roadmap, including wave planning, risk management, and communication planning.
• Coordination of migration tooling, resourcing, and technical delivery activities.
• Handover of documentation, reporting, and lessons learned into BAU.
• Engage with business stakeholders to validate requirements, agree on migration schedules, and manage change impacts.
• Lead programme governance, ensuring risks, issues, dependencies, and changes are proactively managed.

Experience required:

• Strong understanding of Microsoft 365 workloads (Exchange Online, OneDrive, SharePoint Online, Teams) and migration methodologies.
• Proven track record as a Project Manager delivering complex enterprise-scale data migration programmes.
• Experience delivering Exchange migrations (on-premises Exchange 2016/2019 to Exchange Online).
• Knowledge of file server environments and associated challenges (permissions, ROT analysis, large-scale data sets).
• Experience with migration tools (e.g., ShareGate, AvePoint, Metalogix, Quest, Microsoft Migration Manager).
• Excellent governance and project management skills, including RAID, milestone tracking, and executive reporting.
• Strong stakeholder engagement skills with the ability to manage senior business and IT stakeholders.
• Experience managing projects in regulated environments (GDPR, ISO 27001).
• Familiarity with ITIL and change management principles desirable.