Practice Delivery Leader

Toronto - Canada

Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed

Posted on: Yesterday

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

Overview

Our Cloud Data and AI practice is a high-growth area focused on delivering complex enterprise-level digital and data transformations. We require an experienced Practice Delivery Leader to manage the execution and financial health of our project portfolio. This role is crucial for ensuring the successful on-time and on-budget delivery of our largest IT data and cloud-related engagements driving resource efficiency and maintaining high client satisfaction.

You will act as the orchestrator of execution bridging strategic vision with operational reality across multiple concurrent projects.

Responsibilities

As a Practice Delivery Leader / Senior Program Manager you will:

Project Delivery Oversight & Excellence:

o Provide oversight for multiple large-scale cloud migration data platform build and AI implementation projects.

o Ensure all projects adhere to established delivery methodologies quality standards and risk management protocols.

o Intervene as the escalation point to resolve complex project roadblocks related to technical issues resource conflicts or client expectations.

Financial Management & Accountability:

o Manage the financial health of the practice portfolio including tracking utilization optimizing billing rates and controlling engagement profitability.

o Oversee project budgeting forecasting invoicing and change order management for projects under your purview.

Portfolio Health Tracking and Reporting:

o Establish and maintain clear objective metrics for tracking portfolio health (budget variance schedule adherence resource load).

o Conduct regular executive-level reporting on project status risks financial performance and practice capacity to leadership.

Resource Optimization and Allocation:

o Work closely with practice leadership to manage resource demand and capacity planning for the Cloud Data and AI delivery team.

o Optimize resource allocation across projects to maximize utilization and ensure the right skills are deployed at the right time.

Methodology and Standards Advancement:

o Drive continuous improvement in delivery processes utilizing best practices from PMP and Agile/Scrum frameworks.

Requirements

Extensive Delivery Experience (8 Years): Proven experience leading and delivering multiple complex large-scale IT data or cloud transformation projects (total contract value typically $1M).

Project Management Certification: Must hold a current Project Management Professional (PMP) certificationfrom the Project Management Institute (PMI).

Cloud & Data Execution Acumen: Significant experience delivering projects utilizing at least two major public cloud platforms (e.g. AWS Azure GCP) for data warehousing cloud migration or machine learning solutions.

Financial Oversight: Demonstrable success in financial project management including budgeting forecasting managing burn rate and achieving margin targets across a portfolio of projects.

Methodology Proficiency: Expert command of structured delivery methodologies (Agile Waterfall Hybrid) and relevant tooling.

Stakeholder Management: Exceptional ability to manage expectations and communicate complex delivery risks and status updates effectively to C-level clients and internal executives.

Team Leadership: Proven ability to mentor and manage Project Managers and Scrum Masters in a professional services environment.

Nice to have:

Cloud Certifications: Current certifications in a major public cloud platform such as AWS Certified Solutions Architect Professional Microsoft Azure DevOps Engineer Expert or Google Cloud Professional Cloud Architect.

Experience managing data governance strategy or AI readiness projects.

Experience with portfolio management tools (e.g. Clarity Planview).

Education

The ideal candidate should have a Bachelors Degree or equivalent in Business Computer Science Information Management Engineering or a related discipline. A Masters Degree or equivalent advanced degree is highly desirable.

Due to U.S. Government requirements applicable to foreign-owned telecommunications providers non-US citizens may be required to submit to an extensive government agency background check which will necessitate disclosure of sensitive Personally Identifiable Information.

OverviewOur Cloud Data and AI practice is a high-growth area focused on delivering complex enterprise-level digital and data transformations. We require an experienced Practice Delivery Leader to manage the execution and financial health of our project portfolio. This role is crucial for ensuring th...