- Strategic Roadmap Development: Define the vision, strategy, and outcome measures for the legacy SaaS migration of four or more platforms, ensuring the transition aligns with long-term digital strategy.
- Program Governance: Establish and facilitate governance for the legacy SaaS migration project, including execution monitoring, status reporting, and facilitating high-stakes decision-making.
- Cross-Functional Leadership: Foster close working relations across Engineering, Product Management, and Go-to-Market teams to ensure post-transition commercial and KPI targets are achieved.
- Resource & Risk Management: Assess and articulate required resourcing, including people, funding, and tools, to translate technical debt into actionable problem statements and increase confidence in achieving critical SaaS migration milestones.
- Operational Reporting: Design and establish reporting practices that provide executive-level visibility into legacy migration progress, cross-functional risks, and project dependencies.
Requirements
- Numerous years of experience in managing complex program portfolios, with a proven track record of leading large-scale technology transitions.
- Several years of specific technical proficiency focused on SaaS migrations or large-scale platform integrations in digital industries.
- Mastery of Delivery Models: Deep expertise utilizing both waterfall and agile models specifically to manage phased legacy SaaS migration activities.
- Executive Facilitation: Strong experience building alignment across integral stakeholders and presenting technical SaaS migration strategies to senior executive teams.
- Exceptional Communication: Outstanding written and oral communication skills, with a demonstrated ability to interpret complex technical SaaS migration needs for non-technical stakeholders.