Endeavour Recruitment has an excellent contract opportunity for a French or Dutch speaking Technical Project Manager to join a global company in the utilities sector.
You will be responsible for a large-scale PC migration in 2017 in order to leverage new operation system & application technologies provided by Microsoft.
Current environment: Windows 7, office 2010, exchange on premises
Target environment: Windows 10, office 2016, exchange online
Our client is looking for a technical project manager, who – together with a global team - can take on this challenging project.
The team will consist of a project manager who will handle the internal communications & follow-up, HCL technical teams (active directory & exchange, SCCM, application packaging team), regional IT managers and local IT people who will help with the deployment part.
The technical project manager will have end-to-end responsibility for the windows 10 – office 2016 and exchange migration including:
- Prerequisite checks including hardware check
- Overall planning of the migration
- Quality assurance of the overall migration
- Design & build process of the windows 10 image together with the outsourcer
- Pilot tests
- Pilot deployments
- Developing the training and communication plan together with the project manager
- Migration progress follow-up
- Organize the hyper care support during the migration
- Proven system engineering skills in (a large) Microsoft environment (+5000 users)
- Having sufficient knowledge of different technologies like: Active directory, system centre configuration manager, hybrid exchange, windows operating systems and office environments.
- Being familiar and having field experience in larger (international) migrations.
Essential :
- Proven senior experience with large scale operating system migration projects (e.g. from windows XP to windows 7 and/or from windows 7 to windows 10)
- Expert knowledge on windows 10 including the different upgrade methods
- Good knowledge on office 2016
- Good knowledge on Office 365
- Knowledge on how to design/build a “gold” operating system image including applications , security & configuration settings , policies & profile settings
- Familiar with typical challenges during operating system migrations (hardware compatibility, software compatibility ) and how to mitigate them.
Desirable:
- Experience managing a large, globally dispersed deployment team spread across a high number of sites
- Good communication skills
- Proven previous experience with large-scale exchange migrations or O365 migrations is a plus
- Proven previous experience with working with Indian outsourcers is a plus.
Please apply for further details on this excellent contract opportunity.