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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.\nYou 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.\nKey Responsibilities\nOwn end-to-end delivery of client projects - initiation, planning, execution, go-live and closure - against agreed scope, schedule, cost and quality.\nBuild and maintain the project plan: work breakdown, estimates, dependencies, critical path, milestones and release schedule.\nLead a delivery team of consisting of architects, developers, testers and analysts, including distributed onshore and offshore members.\nOwn the commercials of the project - budget, forecast, effort tracking, resource utilization, revenue recognition and margin - and flag variance early.\nRun governance: steering committees, weekly status, RAID logs, dashboards and reporting to client and internal stakeholders.\nManage scope and change control - impact assessment, change requests, re-baselining and the commercial conversation that goes with them.\nIdentify, track and mitigate risks and issues, and escalate with a recommendation rather than only a problem.\nAct 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.\nRun delivery in the method the engagement needs - agile, waterfall or hybrid - including sprint ceremonies, backlog management and release planning.\nCoordinate the delivery lifecycle across teams: requirements, design, build, testing (SIT/UAT), data migration, cutover, hypercare and transition to support.\nManage resourcing and onboarding, workload allocation and knowledge continuity across the team.\nHold quality and compliance - delivery standards, documentation, security and client policy requirements - and prepare for internal and client audits.\nManage third parties, client teams and Microsoft or partner resources where they form part of the delivery.\nSupport presales and account growth - estimation, delivery approach, plans for proposals, and identifying extension opportunities on live projects.\nCoach team members and junior project managers, and contribute delivery templates and lessons learned to the practice.\nRequired Skills & Experience\n12-15 years of overall IT experience, with at least 5-6 years managing project delivery end to end.\nProven delivery of projects in one or more of: cloud migration, application modernization, data platform or data transformation, and CRM or ERP transformation.\nExperience delivering on Microsoft technologies - Azure, Dynamics 365, Power Platform, Microsoft 365, Fabric or the wider stack.\nDemonstrated experience running teams of upto 15-20 resources, including distributed onshore and offshore members.\nStrong command of project management disciplines: estimation, planning, scheduling, budgeting, RAID management, change control and reporting.\nHands-on with project management and delivery tooling - Microsoft Project, Azure DevOps, Jira, Planner, Excel-based tracking and reporting dashboards.\nExperience running both agile and waterfall delivery, and knowing which one a given engagement actually needs.\nCommercial awareness - managing budget, effort, utilization and margin, and handling scope and change commercially.\nStrong client-facing skills - steering committee presence, stakeholder management, and holding difficult conversations well.\nExperience across the full delivery lifecycle including testing, data migration, cutover, go-live and hypercare.\nClear written communication - status reports, plans, governance packs and escalation notes at client-ready quality.\n.\nCertifications: PMP, PRINCE2, Certified ScrumMaster or SAFe; Microsoft fundamentals certifications such as AZ-900, MS-900, PL-900 or DP-900.\nExperience in a consulting, global delivery or SI environment (Avanade, Accenture, or similar).\nExperience managing fixed-price as well as time-and-materials engagements.\nExposure to programme management - coordinating several workstreams or projects under one client outcome.\nBackground as a technical or functional consultant before moving into delivery management.\nExperience with client-side change management and adoption workstreams alongside technical delivery.\nIndustry depth in one or more of BFSI, manufacturing, retail, energy, healthcare or public sector.\nExperience working with Microsoft field or partner teams on co-delivered engagements.\nContribution to delivery accelerators, templates, estimation models or practice-building initiatives.\n.","description_format":"text","description_chars":5652,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":12,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":null,"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":[],"hiring_locations":[{"name":"India","iso":"IN","kind":"country"}],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Professional Services"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-10-14T12:38:18Z"}],"visa":[],"liveness":{"score":86,"band":"hot","label":"Hiring now","p_open":1,"p_active":0.86,"p_room":1,"age_days":7,"expected_fill_days":37,"reasons":["conf:0","win:early","comp:brand"],"computed_at":"2026-10-15T03:41:38Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/avanade-project-manager-cloud-data-business-applications","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/avanade-project-manager-cloud-data-business-applications.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-10-15T03:41:38Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":5146,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-10-16T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":712684},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=712684"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Favanade-project-manager-cloud-data-business-applications"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":1,"usd":0.1},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Favanade-project-manager-cloud-data-business-applications"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Favanade-project-manager-cloud-data-business-applications"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/avanade-project-manager-cloud-data-business-applications\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Favanade-project-manager-cloud-data-business-applications"}]}