Project Manager — Cloud, Data & Business Applications

<p><b>Project Manager — Cloud, Data &amp; Business Applications</b></p><br /><p><b>Practice</b></p><p>Delivery Management, Avanade India</p><p><b>Location</b></p><p>Bengaluru / Delhi NCR, India (Hybrid, with client travel)</p><br /><p><b>Experience</b></p><p>12–15 years in IT, with proven delivery ownership of projects in one or more of cloud migration and application modernisation, data transformation, or CRM/ERP transformation — running teams of eight to ten people, with hands-on delivery experience on Microsoft technologies</p><br /><p><b>Role Summary</b></p><p>Avanade India is looking for a Project Manager to take end-to-end delivery ownership of client projects across cloud modernisation, data and business applications. This is a delivery leadership role for someone who has carried the plan, the budget, the team and the client relationship on real projects — not only reported on them.</p><p>You will run projects with teams distributed across different locations, own scope, schedule, cost, quality and risk, and be the client’s day-to-day point of accountability. We are not looking for experience in every domain: depth in one or two — cloud migration, application modernisation, data transformation, or a CRM or ERP programme — matters more than shallow coverage of all four. Experience delivering on Microsoft technologies is expected, as most of our work sits on the Microsoft stack.</p><br /><p><b>Key Responsibilities</b></p><ul><li>Own end-to-end delivery of client projects — initiation, planning, execution, go-live and closure — against agreed scope, schedule, cost and quality.</li></ul><ul><li>Build and maintain the project plan: work breakdown, estimates, dependencies, critical path, milestones and release schedule.</li></ul><ul><li>Lead a delivery team of consisting of architects, developers, testers and analysts, including distributed onshore and offshore members.</li></ul><ul><li>Own the commercials of the project — budget, forecast, effort tracking, resource utilization, revenue recognition and margin — and flag variance early.</li></ul><ul><li>Run governance: steering committees, weekly status, RAID logs, dashboards and reporting to client and internal stakeholders.</li></ul><ul><li>Manage scope and change control — impact assessment, change requests, re-baselining and the commercial conversation that goes with them.</li></ul><ul><li>Identify, track and mitigate risks and issues, and escalate with a recommendation rather than only a problem.</li></ul><ul><li>Act as the client’s day-to-day delivery contact, building trust with business and IT stakeholders and managing expectations through the difficult parts of a project.</li></ul><ul><li>Run delivery in the method the engagement needs — agile, waterfall or hybrid — including sprint ceremonies, backlog management and release planning.</li></ul><ul><li>Coordinate the delivery lifecycle across teams: requirements, design, build, testing (SIT/UAT), data migration, cutover, hypercare and transition to support.</li></ul><ul><li>Manage resourcing and onboarding, workload allocation and knowledge continuity across the team.</li></ul><ul><li>Hold quality and compliance — delivery standards, documentation, security and client policy requirements — and prepare for internal and client audits.</li></ul><ul><li>Manage third parties, client teams and Microsoft or partner resources where they form part of the delivery.</li></ul><ul><li>Support presales and account growth — estimation, delivery approach, plans for proposals, and identifying extension opportunities on live projects.</li></ul><ul><li>Coach team members and junior project managers, and contribute delivery templates and lessons learned to the practice.</li></ul><br /><p><b>Required Skills &amp; Experience</b></p><ul><li>12–15 years of overall IT experience, with at least 5–6 years managing project delivery end to end.</li></ul><ul><li>Proven delivery of projects in one or more of: cloud migration, application modernization, data platform or data transformation, and CRM or ERP transformation.</li></ul><ul><li>Experience delivering on Microsoft technologies — Azure, Dynamics 365, Power Platform, Microsoft 365, Fabric or the wider stack.</li></ul><ul><li>Demonstrated experience running teams of upto 15-20 resources, including distributed onshore and offshore members.</li></ul><ul><li>Strong command of project management disciplines: estimation, planning, scheduling, budgeting, RAID management, change control and reporting.</li></ul><ul><li>Hands-on with project management and delivery tooling — Microsoft Project, Azure DevOps, Jira, Planner, Excel-based tracking and reporting dashboards.</li></ul><ul><li>Experience running both agile and waterfall delivery, and knowing which one a given engagement actually needs.</li></ul><ul><li>Commercial awareness — managing budget, effort, utilization and margin, and handling scope and change commercially.</li></ul><ul><li>Strong client-facing skills — steering committee presence, stakeholder management, and holding difficult conversations well.</li></ul><ul><li>Experience across the full delivery lifecycle including testing, data migration, cutover, go-live and hypercare.</li></ul><ul><li>Clear written communication — status reports, plans, governance packs and escalation notes at client-ready quality.</li></ul>

<ul><li>Certifications: PMP, PRINCE2, Certified ScrumMaster or SAFe; Microsoft fundamentals certifications such as AZ-900, MS-900, PL-900 or DP-900.</li></ul><ul><li>Experience in a consulting, global delivery or SI environment (Avanade, Accenture, or similar).</li></ul><ul><li>Experience managing fixed-price as well as time-and-materials engagements.</li></ul><ul><li>Exposure to programme management — coordinating several workstreams or projects under one client outcome.</li></ul><ul><li>Background as a technical or functional consultant before moving into delivery management.</li></ul><ul><li>Experience with client-side change management and adoption workstreams alongside technical delivery.</li></ul><ul><li>Industry depth in one or more of BFSI, manufacturing, retail, energy, healthcare or public sector.</li></ul><ul><li>Experience working with Microsoft field or partner teams on co-delivered engagements.</li></ul><ul><li>Contribution to delivery accelerators, templates, estimation models or practice-building initiatives.</li></ul>