Project Manager — Cloud, Data & Business Applications

Project Manager - Cloud, Data & Business Applications

Practice

Delivery Management, Avanade India

Location

Bengaluru / Delhi NCR, India (Hybrid, with client travel)

Experience

12-15 years in IT, with proven delivery ownership of projects in one or more of cloud migration and application modernisation, data transformation, or CRM/ERP transformation - running teams of eight to ten people, with hands-on delivery experience on Microsoft technologies

Role Summary

Avanade India is looking for a Project Manager to take end-to-end delivery ownership of client projects across cloud modernisation, data and business applications. This is a delivery leadership role for someone who has carried the plan, the budget, the team and the client relationship on real projects - not only reported on them.

You will run projects with teams distributed across different locations, own scope, schedule, cost, quality and risk, and be the client’s day-to-day point of accountability. We are not looking for experience in every domain: depth in one or two - cloud migration, application modernisation, data transformation, or a CRM or ERP programme - matters more than shallow coverage of all four. Experience delivering on Microsoft technologies is expected, as most of our work sits on the Microsoft stack.

Key Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end delivery of client projects - initiation, planning, execution, go-live and closure - against agreed scope, schedule, cost and quality.

• Build and maintain the project plan: work breakdown, estimates, dependencies, critical path, milestones and release schedule.

• Lead a delivery team of consisting of architects, developers, testers and analysts, including distributed onshore and offshore members.

• Own the commercials of the project - budget, forecast, effort tracking, resource utilization, revenue recognition and margin - and flag variance early.

• Run governance: steering committees, weekly status, RAID logs, dashboards and reporting to client and internal stakeholders.

• Manage scope and change control - impact assessment, change requests, re-baselining and the commercial conversation that goes with them.

• Identify, track and mitigate risks and issues, and escalate with a recommendation rather than only a problem.

• Act as the client’s day-to-day delivery contact, building trust with business and IT stakeholders and managing expectations through the difficult parts of a project.

• Run delivery in the method the engagement needs - agile, waterfall or hybrid - including sprint ceremonies, backlog management and release planning.

• Coordinate the delivery lifecycle across teams: requirements, design, build, testing (SIT/UAT), data migration, cutover, hypercare and transition to support.

• Manage resourcing and onboarding, workload allocation and knowledge continuity across the team.

• Hold quality and compliance - delivery standards, documentation, security and client policy requirements - and prepare for internal and client audits.

• Manage third parties, client teams and Microsoft or partner resources where they form part of the delivery.

• Support presales and account growth - estimation, delivery approach, plans for proposals, and identifying extension opportunities on live projects.

• Coach team members and junior project managers, and contribute delivery templates and lessons learned to the practice.

Required Skills & Experience

• 12-15 years of overall IT experience, with at least 5-6 years managing project delivery end to end.

• Proven delivery of projects in one or more of: cloud migration, application modernization, data platform or data transformation, and CRM or ERP transformation.

• Experience delivering on Microsoft technologies - Azure, Dynamics 365, Power Platform, Microsoft 365, Fabric or the wider stack.

• Demonstrated experience running teams of upto 15-20 resources, including distributed onshore and offshore members.

• Strong command of project management disciplines: estimation, planning, scheduling, budgeting, RAID management, change control and reporting.

• Hands-on with project management and delivery tooling - Microsoft Project, Azure DevOps, Jira, Planner, Excel-based tracking and reporting dashboards.

• Experience running both agile and waterfall delivery, and knowing which one a given engagement actually needs.

• Commercial awareness - managing budget, effort, utilization and margin, and handling scope and change commercially.

• Strong client-facing skills - steering committee presence, stakeholder management, and holding difficult conversations well.

• Experience across the full delivery lifecycle including testing, data migration, cutover, go-live and hypercare.

• Clear written communication - status reports, plans, governance packs and escalation notes at client-ready quality.

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• Certifications: PMP, PRINCE2, Certified ScrumMaster or SAFe; Microsoft fundamentals certifications such as AZ-900, MS-900, PL-900 or DP-900.

• Experience in a consulting, global delivery or SI environment (Avanade, Accenture, or similar).

• Experience managing fixed-price as well as time-and-materials engagements.

• Exposure to programme management - coordinating several workstreams or projects under one client outcome.

• Background as a technical or functional consultant before moving into delivery management.

• Experience with client-side change management and adoption workstreams alongside technical delivery.

• Industry depth in one or more of BFSI, manufacturing, retail, energy, healthcare or public sector.

• Experience working with Microsoft field or partner teams on co-delivered engagements.

• Contribution to delivery accelerators, templates, estimation models or practice-building initiatives.

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