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Job Description Job Description – Digital Transformation- Delivery/Project Manager - AVP Position Title, Responsibility Level Delivery Manager Function Digital Reports to SAVP/VP Regular/Temporary: Regular Grade D1 Location Noida, India Key Objectives Strategic Leadership: Define and execute enterprise-level digital transformation strategies centered on Generative AI (Gen AI), automation, and cloud technologies to drive innovation and business value. Transformation Execution: Lead complex transformation programs across business units, ensuring delivery of scalable AI solutions that improve customer experience, operational efficiency, and decision-making. Project Oversight: Manage a team of 4-5 Project Managers alongside multiple high-impact AI initiatives simultaneously, ensuring delivery on time, within scope, and on budget. Provide governance and oversight on Agile and hybrid project methodologies. Stakeholder Collaboration: Partner with senior business stakeholders, Clients, technology leaders, and product owners to shape AI adoption strategies and ensure solutions align with business goals. Change Management: Act as a change agent to drive the adoption of Gen AI across teams. Champion digital culture shifts, enable business readiness, and address change resistance effectively. AI/ML Oversight: Guide the architecture, development, deployment, and monitoring of AI models and ML workflows, ensuring performance, fairness, and compliance. Platform & Tool Leadership: Direct use of tools/platforms such as ServiceNow, Appian, JIRA, AWS, and other low-code/no-code and cloud technologies in delivery initiatives. Innovation Culture: Promote an innovation-driven environment through regular experimentation, pilots, and training around emerging AI/Gen AI technologies. Risk & Compliance Management: Identify, assess, and mitigate delivery, operational, and technical risks. Ensure compliance with internal standards and external regulatory requirements. Vendor & Partner Management: Evaluate and manage third-party vendors, negotiate service contracts, and ensure partner accountability on deliverables. Budget & Resource Management: Develop, track, and manage program budgets, resource allocation, and capacity planning for current and upcoming projects. Performance Reporting: Establish metrics and KPIs to measure success. Deliver strategic reporting and executive summaries to High-level stakeholders. Skills Technical Skills Deep understanding of Gen AI technologies, including advanced AI deployment workflows, ML model lifecycle, and data pipeline optimization to drive strategic AI adoption at an enterprise scale. Strong background in leading digital transformation initiatives, leveraging tools such as JIRA, MS Project, Confluence, and other advanced project management platforms to streamline collaboration, reporting, and cross-functional alignment. Extensive experience with RPA tools, cloud platforms (AWS, Azure), and enterprise automation frameworks, driving significant business outcomes through automation at scale. Proven expertise in architecting and guiding AI/ML model implementations, data flow optimizations, and model evaluation strategies to ensure high-quality and reliable AI outcomes. Strong strategic oversight in process design, quality assurance, and traceability management in large-scale software development lifecycles, ensuring alignment with business objectives and regulatory compliance. Expertise in leading the full project lifecycle management, from strategic initiation to successful deployment and ongoing optimization, ensuring alignment with organizational transformation goals. Ability to manage large, complex portfolios of AI-driven projects, overseeing cross-functional teams, multi-geography delivery models, and driving innovation to achieve high-impact results. Extensive experience in both Agile (Scrum, Kanban, SAFe) and Waterfall methodologies, with proficiency in hybrid delivery models tailored to complex enterprise transformations. Demonstrated excellence in project planning, resource management, and budget allocation, ensuring the effective use of resources to deliver projects on time, within scope, and under budget. Expertise in risk assessment and mitigation, managing project scope, timeline adjustments, and resource allocation in alignment with business constraints and evolving stakeholder needs. Proven track record in stakeholder management, including senior leadership and client engagement, ensuring transparency, issue resolution, and alignment with business objectives. Strong leadership in executive reporting, crafting insightful and impactful status reports, project summaries, and strategic updates for C-suite executives and client leadership teams. Soft Skills (Desired) Exceptional communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to influence and align senior stakeholders, clients, and cross-functional teams toward common business objectives. Strong leadership capabilities, fostering high-performance teams, driving collaboration, and motivating diverse groups to achieve transformation goals. Advanced strategic thinking and problem-solving skills, with the ability to synthesize complex data, manage risks, and make informed decisions to guide project success. Proven expertise in stakeholder management, effectively negotiating, resolving conflicts, and ensuring alignment between business needs and project execution. Education Requirements Graduate PMP/Prince certification is Mandatory Work Experience Requirements Must Have: Minimum 10 years of relevant experience as a Project Manager. Ideal 12-15 years’ experience in IT. Proven experience managing at least 5 projects in parallel. At least 5 projects were managed using Agile methodology as a Scrum Master. At least 5 projects were managed in a Waterfall environment as a Project Manager. Demonstrated ability to manage a project end-to-end from initiation to closure. Experience in consulting or client-facing environments, with a focus on managing client expectations and requirements. Preferred Skills Experience with low code implementations or any business systems implementations. Relevant certifications such as PMI, Prince2, SAFe, etc Show more Show less