About the role
- Managing complex cloud migration and implementation projects.
- Leveraging comprehensive knowledge of cloud services to be able to hold conversations with solution architects and own strategic planning.
- Bridging business requirements with technical solutions, facilitating engineering discussions and ensuring alignment with customer business outcomes.
- Liaising with solution architects to ensure distilling of customer needs into clear technical requirements and mapping them to business outcomes.
- Defining documentation standards
- Team Coordination
- Leading daily stand-ups, sprint planning, backlog grooming, and retrospectives using Agile/Scrum methodologies.
- Coordinating cross-functional engineering teams to maintain sprint velocity and delivery cadence across concurrent migration workstreams.
- Tracking project performance, managing resource allocation, and proactively mitigating risks related to microservices dependencies, system performance, and scope creep.
- Maintaining risk and dependency registers, escalating blockers, and driving mitigation plans to closure.
- Acting as the primary point of contact between engineering teams and non-technical stakeholders, translating deeply technical updates into clear business progress.
- Producing regular status reports, steering committee updates, and executive-level summaries of program health.
- Engaging directly and credibly with solution architects on migration design decisions, acting as a quality gate for migration design completeness.
- Owning the overall scope, budget, and timeline of the engagement, applying business and financial acumen to manage change requests and protect margin.
- Serving as a strategic partner to the client, building trust with executive and technical stakeholders and managing expectations throughout the engagement lifecycle.
- Identifying IT compliance, security, and risk management requirements early in the engagement and ensuring the delivery plan accounts for them.
- Applying agile/iterative delivery experience to keep engagements grounded in realistic, defensible plans.
- Proactively chasing task owners on outstanding action items, overdue tickets, and at-risk deliverables, escalating firmly and promptly when commitments slip.
- Owning a ticket system as the system of record for sprint and program work: creating and grooming well-formed tickets, keeping boards current, and using it to drive (not just report) delivery.
- Driving documentation quality and completeness on a wiki, holding engineering and architecture teams accountable for keeping runbooks, design docs, and decision records current.
- Experience in cloud computing, with direct exposure to large-scale AWS migration or implementation environments.
- Experience in project management of technical programs, supporting Fortune 500 companies across multiple industries.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, related field, or equivalent experience.
- 10+ years Project Management hands-on experience in managing and delivering enterprise-level IT projects, engaging directly with client executives and technical stakeholders.
- Demonstrated hands-on experience running Agile/Scrum ceremonies (stand-ups, sprint planning, backlog grooming, retrospectives).
- Working technical fluency: able to converse knowledgeably about core AWS services (e.g. EC2, VPC, S3, IAM), with a general working understanding of infrastructure-as-code concepts (e.g. Terraform, CloudFormation). Deep hands-on IaC authoring is not required, but candidates who describe themselves as "not technical" will not be considered.
- Daily hands-on use of a ticket system for backlog, sprint, and dependency management, and of a wiki for documentation.
- Able to communicate effectively, in both technical and business settings, with internal teams and client stakeholders.
- AWS experience preferred, ideally including large-scale cloud migration or operations engagements.
- At least one active project management certification (e.g., PMP, PMI-ACP, PRINCE2, Certified ScrumMaster).
- General subject-matter overview of cloud infrastructure, enough to follow architecture and engineering conversations.
- Proven ability to establish technical credibility with engineering teams and senior technical decision-makers, including solution architects, at a peer level.
- Experience with IT compliance and risk management requirements (e.g. security, privacy, data residency) in a client-delivery context.
- Proven track record of increasing project scope and complexity, with deep knowledge of Agile and Scaled program management best practices and how to pragmatically apply them across large, complex projects.
- A track record of holding distributed teams accountable to deadlines without needing constant management escalation.