migratiemanager

A migratiemanager is a term used in information technology to describe either a role or a software capability that plans, coordinates, and executes migrations of systems, data, or applications from one environment to another. It is commonly applied to cloud migrations, data center relocations, platform upgrades, database migrations, and ERP data transfers.

A migratiemanager combines project management with technical orchestration. Key responsibilities include defining scope and timelines, assessing risks, managing change control, mapping dependencies, coordinating teams, and ensuring data quality. The role or tool orchestrates tasks across migration utilities, ETL processes, database migration tools, and infrastructure provisioning. It typically provides validation and testing plans, cutover procedures, rollback options, and ongoing monitoring and reporting.

The migration process generally follows a lifecycle that includes discovery and assessment, design, build and test, go-live, and post-migration validation. Depending on the context, a migratiemanager can be a dedicated organizational role or a software platform that integrates with IT service management, CI/CD pipelines, and cloud management tools. It may operate across multiple domains such as data migration, application modernization, and infrastructure relocation.

In practice, a migratiemanager emphasizes traceability, documentation, and compliance. Common outputs include migration runbooks, data mappings, risk and issue logs, and audit trails. The concept is closely related to governance, change management, and migration tooling, and it aims to minimize downtime, preserve data integrity, and provide clear rollback and verification procedures during and after the transition.