We are seeking an experienced Senior Project & Delivery Manager to lead complex technology projects, cloud transformation initiatives, AI-enabled operational improvement, and ongoing managed services engagements for enterprise customers across multiple industry verticals.The role combines end-to-end project and program execution with service delivery governance, customer relationship management, financial performance, operational excellence, and team leadership.The successful candidate will have a proven track record of managing multiple projects, workstreams, or customer engagements with varying technology stacks, delivery models, team sizes, and commercial requirements.Key Responsibilities :1. Project and Program Delivery :- Own end-to-end delivery of complex IT projects, cloud migration and modernization initiatives, infrastructure transformation, cybersecurity implementations, and service onboarding.- Manage multiple concurrent projects or workstreams, ensuring delivery against contractual scope, schedule, budget, quality, and acceptance criteria.- Develop integrated delivery plans, resource forecasts, financial baselines, risk mitigation strategies, and governance mechanisms.- Lead project reviews, steering committee meetings, dependency management, change control, and escalation resolution.- Establish recovery plans for at-risk projects and drive corrective actions to successful completion.2. Cloud Transformation and Modernization :- Lead delivery governance for AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, hybrid cloud, multicloud, data centre migration, and infrastructure modernization engagements.- Coordinate cloud architects, engineering teams, security specialists, operations, and third-party providers.- Govern migration waves, workload dependencies, cutover readiness, testing, disaster recovery, security requirements, and transition into production.- Monitor delivery risks, resource requirements, cloud implementation costs, and transformation milestones.- Drive cloud cost optimization and FinOps initiatives in partnership with technical and finance teams.3. AI, GenAI, AIOps and Automation :- Identify and govern AI-enabled transformation and operational improvement initiatives across projects and managed services.- Lead delivery of initiatives such as intelligent incident management, alert correlation, automated root-cause analysis support, GenAI knowledge assistants, service desk copilots, and workflow automation.- Work with AI/ML, cloud, data, security, and operations teams to define delivery scope, dependencies, milestones,



and acceptance criteria.- Establish measurable benefits such as reduced manual effort, improved MTTR, lower recurring incident volumes, improved productivity, and better customer experience.- Govern pilot-to-production readiness, testing, integration, user adoption, operational support, and benefits realization.- Ensure appropriate oversight of data security, privacy, model accuracy, reliability, cost, and responsible AI requirements.4. Managed Services and Service Delivery :- Own service performance for assigned customers, accounts, or technology towers, including SLAs, KPIs, service quality, and contractual commitments.- Monitor incidents, major problems, change execution, availability, service backlogs, capacity, and operational risks.- Lead service reviews, customer escalations, major incident governance, root-cause analysis, and service improvement plans.- Ensure effective transition from project delivery into steady-state managed services, including operational readiness and support ownership.- Drive automation, standardization, proactive problem management, service analytics, and continual service improvement.5. Customer and Executive Stakeholder Management :- Build strong relationships with customer IT leadership, project sponsors, service owners, procurement, and business stakeholders.- Lead customer governance, executive reviews, project steering committees, and service performance discussions.- Manage escalations, delivery recovery, expectation setting, and stakeholder alignment.- Communicate project health, financial exposure, delivery risks, decisions required, and improvement opportunities.- Identify opportunities for legitimate service expansion, transformation programs, and improved customer outcomes.6. Financial and Commercial Ownership :- Own or govern project budgets, delivery cost forecasts, effort estimates, resource utilization, and milestone-based billing.- Monitor service delivery economics, including cost efficiency, gross margins, forecast accuracy, and profitability within the assigned accountability.- Review SOWs, change requests, scope variations, contractual obligations, and commercial risks.- Partner with Sales, Presales, Finance,



Procurement, and Legal teams on estimation, solution validation, delivery mobilization, renewals, and scope expansion.- Drive productivity, automation, cloud cost optimization, and resource-efficiency improvements.7. People Leadership and Delivery Excellence :- Lead cross-functional project teams, service leads, technical managers, vendors, and geographically distributed delivery teams.- Manage resource planning, capacity, utilization, skill development, and performance accountability.- Mentor Project Managers and delivery leads, standardize governance, and improve delivery maturity.- Drive lessons learned, automation adoption, risk management discipline, and continuous improvement across engagements.Required Skills and Experience :- 8 - 14 years of experience in IT services, project management, cloud delivery, infrastructure, or managed services.- Demonstrated ownership of complex projects, multiple workstreams, or customer-facing service engagements.- Robust experience with customer governance, escalations, risk management, project financials, and cross-functional team leadership.- Practical understanding of cloud migration, hybrid/multi-cloud environments, infrastructure operations, and service transition.- Experience with SLAs, KPIs, incident/problem/change management, ITSM, and service improvement.- Exposure to AI, GenAI, AIOps, automation, or analytics initiatives, preferably including measurable business outcomes.- Strong commercial understanding of budgets, cost control, forecasting, resource utilization, and margins.- Excellent executive communication, negotiation, analytical, and decision-making skills.Preferred Qualifications :- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, IT, Computer Science, or a related field.- PMP or PRINCE2 Practitioner certification.- ITIL certification.- Relevant AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud certification.- FinOps, Agile, Scrum, or automation-related credentials where applicable.Key Performance Indicators :- Delivery of projects within agreed scope, schedule, budget, and quality.- SLA/KPI achievement, operational stability, and customer satisfaction.- Successful cloud transformation and project-to-service transition.- Measurable benefits from AI, AIOps, automation, and service improvement.- Financial performance, margin protection, utilization, and forecast accuracy.- Reduction in recurring incidents, manual effort, delivery risk, and avoidable cost.- Team capability development and sustained customer confidence (ref:hirist.tech)

📌 ESDS - Senior Project & Delivery Manager - AI & Managed Services (Nashik)
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