Delivery Manager

Delivery Manager — Data Platform Delivery DM: Needs a delivery leader who actively uses EVM — CPI and SPI are not buzzwords for this person, they are weekly management tools — and who has owned P&L on Fixed Bid engagements with real commercial consequences. Experience: 15+ years total, minimum 6 years in delivery management with P&L accountability across multiple concurrent client engagements.

Project Management and EVM — Non Negotiable: PMP certified — must be able to apply it, not just hold the certification Deep working knowledge of IPECC — has formally structured engagements through all five phases with documented artefacts at each stage Integrates SDLC within each project management phase — understands how technical delivery phases map to governance phases and manages both simultaneously Earned Value Management is mandatory — must actively use EVM metrics to manage delivery health: Calculates and tracks Planned Value, Earned Value, and Actual Cost on active projects Reports CPI — Cost Performance Index and SPI — Schedule Performance Index to leadership and clients as standard governance output Uses CPI below 0.

9 as a trigger for immediate recovery plan — not just a reporting number Uses SPI below 0.85 as a trigger for client escalation conversation — proactively, not reactively Able to calculate Cost Variance and Schedule Variance and translate these into business language for executive stakeholders Identifies critical path risks early — raises them before they become delivery failures, not after Manages formal scope baseline — any change to baseline is a documented, approved event Commercial Accountability: Has owned project P&L — margins, utilisation, cost forecasting, profitability Managed Fixed Bid engagements with real commercial consequences — not just T&M Understands and enforces change request governance — scope, cost, and timeline impact assessed and approved before work starts Milestone billing experience — invoices tied to deliverable acceptance, not calendar dates Delivery Governance: Builds and maintains RAID logs as active management tools — not documentation exercises Runs steering committee meetings with client executive stakeholders Manages escalations proactively — client is never surprised Defines and tracks delivery KPIs — velocity, sprint predictability, defect rates, SPI, CPI — and reports them in structured executive dashboards People Leadership: Leads TPMs, Tech Leads, and Engineering teams across multiple engagements Mentors junior delivery managers — builds delivery capability in the organisation Participates in hiring, workforce planning, and resource optimisation Technical Domain: Java

• Backend Spring Boot, REST APIs, Microservices, Angular Decent Exposure and conceptual understanding of AI , Gen AI , Langchain / langraph / MCP/ RAG / LLM’s Strong familiarity with Data Engineering, ETL/ELT, BI Modernisation, Cloud Data Platforms Microsoft Fabric, Azure Data Factory, Snowflake, Databricks, Power BI — must understand enough to have credible technical conversations with architects and clients Experience delivering data migration programs — Informatica to Fabric, Tableau to Power BI, or equivalent Certifications Required: PMP — mandatory
• SAFe, CSM, or PRINCE2 — additional certification preferred