Delivery Manager - GCP Cloud
We are seeking an experienced Delivery Manager – GCP Cloud to lead large-scale cloud transformation, migration, and modernization programs, driving end-to-end delivery across cross-functional teams while managing senior stakeholder relationships and ensuring successful business outcomes.
Responsibilities
- 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
Requirements
- 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
Nice to have
- 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
