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