Project Manager - APIM Migration Support

The Project Manager will lead the end-to-end coordination, planning, and execution of the Azure APIM migration program. The role involves managing consumer onboarding, testing, scheduling, deployment governance, and cross-functional communication across architecture, security, DevOps, and consumer application teams. The PM ensures smooth migration of pre-developed APIs using established CI/CD pipelines and APIM infrastructure.

Location: Remote

Work hours: Required to support until 12 noon CST (or to be aligned with UK timings)

• Drive overall program planning, sprint planning, roadmap definition, and migration scheduling for 119+ APIs across multiple consumers.
• Serve as the primary point of contact between offshore team, platform teams, and API consumers.
• Coordinate onboarding sessions for consumers, track testing readiness, and manage dependencies, risks, and cross-team alignments.
• Maintain detailed trackers: API migration matrices, consumer readiness, issue logs, and release plans.
• Oversee testing progress (integration, regression, UAT) and ensure consumer sign-offs.
• Manage deployments using existing CI/CD pipelines; coordinate release windows and post-deployment validations.
• Prepare and deliver weekly status reports, dashboards, RAID logs, and stakeholder communication updates.
• Ensure compliance with API security, architecture guidelines, and operational standards.
• Drive governance ceremonies including daily stand-ups, weekly syncs, sprint reviews, and retrospectives.
• Escalate roadblocks promptly and ensure timely resolutions to keep migration on schedule.

• 1015years of IT delivery experience, with 3+ years in API integration or API gateway (Azure APIM preferred).
• Strong understanding of API lifecycle, API consumer engagement, testing cycles, and release management.
• Experience running projects with multi-team dependencies and cross-org stakeholder management.
• Familiarity with Azure DevOps, CI/CD pipelines, API documentation (OpenAPI), and migration workflows.
• Excellent communication, documentation, and stakeholder management skills.
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to manage RAID logs, metrics, and reporting dashboards.
• Experience working with life sciences clients, understanding enterprise integration systems, GxP regulations

• Experience with TIBCO APIM or similar API gateway migration projects.
• Understanding of OAuth, certificates, security policies, throttling, caching, and routing rules.
• Experience working with global teams and supporting US time zones.
• PMP, CSM, or Azure certifications (nice to have).