Delivery Manager - GCP Cloud

Own end-to-end programme delivery across discovery, assessment, landing-zone readiness, wave planning, migration execution, cutover, warranty, and transition to operations, with overall responsibility for Project/People/Account Management

Lead multiple cross-functional and distributed teams; manage scope, schedules, budgets, staffing, dependencies, risks, issues, and executive governance, with awareness of Data Privacy, Security, IP & Responsible AI activities

Review solution architectures and migration strategies; validate application dependency maps, migration waves, security, resilience, performance, operability, and cost assumptions

Chair migration readiness and technical governance forums such as ARB, WAR etc.; lead Go/No-Go decisions, coordinate cutover, rollback, business validation, warranty, and service acceptance

Partner with client business, security, infrastructure, application, data, and operations leaders to translate technical constraints into clear business impacts and decisions

Establish delivery metrics including migration throughput, schedule variance, defect leakage, cutover success, availability, performance, cloud spend, and benefits realization

Drive adoption of cloud governance and FinOps practices, including policy, tagging, cost allocation, budget controls, rightsizing, and optimization backlogs

Support presales, estimates, solution shaping, delivery assurance, account growth, and capability development; coach delivery managers and technical leads

Use approved enterprise GenAI tools responsibly to improve planning, reporting, risk analysis, knowledge management, and stakeholder communication while protecting data and intellectual property

9 to 14 years of experience in IT delivery, including 5+ years leading large cloud transformation, application modernization, infrastructure, or migration programmes, along with experience managing multiple workstreams, senior stakeholders, and program execution using Agile & Hybrid methodologies

Knowledge of GCP resource hierarchy (organizations, folders, projects), IAM, VPC, Cloud Load Balancing, Cloud DNS, Cloud Logging/Monitoring, Cloud KMS, and backup/DR concepts

Familiarity with migration strategy patterns such as rehost, replatform, and refactor

Ability to govern identity, network segmentation, key management, logging, vulnerability remediation, backup/DR, business continuity, and regulatory requirements

Expertise in RAID management, financial governance, change control, and executive reporting

Working knowledge of project tracking systems (Jira/Confluence/ADO/Project) and usage of Gen AI tools for Delivery Management

Understanding of CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code (Terraform), containers/Kubernetes (GKE), APIs, integration patterns, and SRE/observability fundamentals

Ability to facilitate architecture reviews and explain technical trade-offs, costs, risks, and migration decisions to business and engineering audiences

Experience with Google Cloud Architecture Framework, Cloud Foundation Toolkit, landing-zone/foundation programmes, and Google Cloud migration methodologies

Google Cloud certification: Google Cloud Digital Leader, Professional Cloud Architect or equivalent

PMP, PMI-ACP, PRINCE2, SAFe, ITIL, or equivalent programme-management certifications