Project Manager – Cloud Infrastructure, AI & Governance Delivery
About The Position
The Project Manager coordinates end-to-end delivery execution for an enterprise cloud infrastructure, AI integration, and governance engagement. The role manages client dependencies, delivery milestones, and formal stakeholder approvals across a 22-week sequential programme. The programme has two phases, each with a part-time allocation of 0.5 FTE: Phase 1, MCP Gateway and Governance, runs for 10 weeks and covers gateway requirements, environment prerequisites, sprint plans, and deliverable sign-offs. Phase 2, Model Access through Microsoft Foundry, runs for 12 weeks and covers Foundry model rollouts, evaluation milestones, stakeholder acceptance, and operational handover. The Project Manager maintains delivery plans and reporting, governs dependencies and RAID items, coordinates stakeholders, manages scope and commercial changes, oversees acceptance and deliverable sign-off, and tracks operational handover activities.
Requirements
- 8–12+ years of experience managing enterprise technology projects involving cloud infrastructure, API management, and integration.
- Proven track record maintaining multi-phase delivery roadmaps and resource schedules, and managing delivery burn rates.
- Strong expertise proactively identifying, tracking, and resolving technical dependencies, security access requests, and cross-functional risks.
- Skilled at facilitating client review meetings and steering group updates, and aligning technical delivery teams with executive sponsors.
- Demonstrated experience managing Statement of Work (SOW) deliverables, milestone acceptance criteria, and formal change requests.
- Proficiency in Agile/Scrum and Waterfall delivery models, Jira, Confluence, and enterprise PM reporting tools.
Nice To Haves
- Experience delivering technology initiatives within tier-1 banks, asset management, or regulated corporate environments.
- Previous management of Azure cloud implementations, API gateway rollouts, or enterprise LLM/GenAI initiatives.
- PMP, PRINCE2 Practitioner, or Agile/Scrum Master certifications (CSM/PMI-ACP).
- Prior experience in a management consulting or professional services delivery environment.
Responsibilities
- Maintain the master delivery plan, milestones, resource schedules, burn-down metrics, and executive progress reporting.
- Track access requirements, technical prerequisites, dependencies, risks, and issues, with named owners and resolution dates.
- Coordinate client stakeholders, architecture review meetings, weekly delivery check-ins, and steering committee decisions.
- Manage scope changes and assess their impact on person-week effort, timelines, deliverable commitments, and commercials.
- Coordinate acceptance testing, release approvals, governance reviews, and formal contractual deliverable sign-offs.
- Track completion of technical documentation, standard operating procedures, knowledge transfer, and operational handover.
- Coordinate gateway requirements, environment prerequisites, sprint plans, and Phase 1 deliverable sign-offs.
- Coordinate Foundry model rollouts, evaluation milestones, stakeholder acceptance, and Phase 2 operational handover.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Part-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
No Education Listed
