Technical Project Manager - French or Dutch speaking/Belgium

Endeavour Recruitment has an excellent contract opportunity for a fluent French or Dutch speaking Technical Project Manager to join a global company in the utility 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 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 ( 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 (eg 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.