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