Delivery Manager - GCP Cloud

Take full ownership of programme delivery spanning discovery, assessment, landing-zone readiness, wave planning, migration execution, cutover, warranty, and transition to operations, holding overall accountability for Project/People/Account Management

Direct multiple cross-functional and distributed teams, handling scope, schedules, budgets, staffing, dependencies, risks, issues, and executive governance, while staying mindful of Data Privacy, Security, IP & Responsible AI activities

Assess solution architectures and migration strategies, confirming application dependency maps, migration waves, security, resilience, performance, operability, and cost assumptions

Lead migration readiness and technical governance forums such as ARB, WAR, etc., driving Go/No-Go decisions and coordinating cutover, rollback, business validation, warranty, and service acceptance

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

Set up delivery metrics covering migration throughput, schedule variance, defect leakage, cutover success, availability, performance, cloud spend, and benefits realization

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

Contribute to presales, estimates, solution shaping, delivery assurance, account growth, and capability development, while mentoring delivery managers and technical leads

Apply approved enterprise GenAI tools responsibly to enhance planning, reporting, risk analysis, knowledge management, and stakeholder communication while safeguarding data and intellectual property

Between 9 and 14 years of IT delivery experience, with at least 5 years leading substantial cloud transformation, application modernization, infrastructure, or migration programmes, plus experience overseeing multiple workstreams, senior stakeholders, and program execution through Agile & Hybrid methodologies

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

Awareness of migration strategy patterns such as rehost, replatform, and refactor

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

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

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

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

Skill in facilitating architecture reviews and communicating technical trade-offs, costs, risks, and migration decisions to both business and engineering audiences

Hands-on exposure to Google Cloud Architecture Framework, Cloud Foundation Toolkit, and foundation/landing-zone build-outs, coupled with familiarity in Google's structured migration methodologies

Holding a recognized Google Cloud credential such as Digital Leader or Professional Cloud Architect, or a comparable industry-accepted certification

Possession of programme-management credentials like PMP, PMI-ACP, PRINCE2, SAFe, ITIL, or similar recognized qualifications