Senior Director – Enterprise D&A Cloud Transformation

Job Description Summary

The Senior Director, Enterprise D&A Cloud Transformation, will lead one of the company's largest and most strategic digital transformation programs: the migration of our Vernova Data Lake, Analytics, and AI platform ecosystem from AWS to Microsoft Azure.

This leader will own the end-to-end migration strategy, governance, execution, and operational readiness required to transition Databricks, Tableau, HVR, enterprise data pipelines, analytics solutions, AI/data agent capabilities, web applications, and supporting platform services to Azure while ensuring business continuity and minimal disruption.

The role requires a unique blend of executive leadership, large-scale program management, cloud architecture knowledge, data and analytics expertise, organizational change management, and operational excellence. The successful candidate will lead a matrixed global organization comprised of architecture, engineering, analytics, governance, operations, cybersecurity, PMO, and business teams to deliver a modern, scalable, secure, and cost-effective Azure-enabled data ecosystem.

Job DescriptionEssential Responsibilities

• Enterprise Transformation Leadership

• Serve as the executive leader accountable for the migration of the enterprise Data & Analytics ecosystem from AWS to Azure.

• Establish and execute the overall transformation strategy, roadmap, governance model, and operating cadence.

• Define success criteria, business outcomes, milestones, risk management processes, and executive reporting mechanisms.

• Drive alignment across executive leadership, business stakeholders, technology teams, cybersecurity, finance, and external partners.

• Ensure the transformation delivers measurable improvements in scalability, agility, performance, resilience, and cost optimization.

• Program Management Office (PMO) Leadership

• Establish and lead the transformation PMO organization.

• Lead overall program governance, project planning, dependency management, forecasting, risk mitigation, and executive communications.

• Build and oversee program management, Agile, SAFe, release planning, and portfolio management disciplines.

• Develop executive dashboards, program health metrics, RAID processes, and leadership updates.

• Coordinate onboarding and mobilization of internal teams, contractors, consulting partners, and technology vendors.

• Cloud & Platform Architecture Leadership

• Partner with Enterprise Architecture and Cybersecurity teams to define target-state Azure architecture and migration strategy.