Sr. Staff Project Manager (Migrations Specialist), Professional Services

Databricks Inc.; London; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading data and AI company is looking for a Senior Staff Project Manager specializing in migrations to join their Professional Services team in London. This pivotal role involves overseeing complex migration projects, ensuring customer satisfaction and commercial success while leading cross-functional teams for optimal project delivery.

Benefits

Comprehensive benefits offering

Inclusive culture

Qualifications

• Experience managing enterprise scale migrations with teams up to 40.
• Excellent communication and analytical skills.
• Strong commercial focus and experience managing project budgets.

Responsibilities

• Specialise in large-scale migrations to the Databricks platform.
• Define, manage, scope, and mitigate risk across projects.
• Ensure accurate reporting and communication on project progress.

Skills

Leadership

Strategic Insight

Communication

Analytical Skills

Initiative

Education

PMI/PRINCE/AGILE certification

Job description

As a Sr Staff Project Manager (Migrations Specialist), you are instrumental in driving the mission of our Professional Services team, which is dedicated to accelerating and de-risking our customers'migrations by ensuring the success of every project we undertake. Your role is pivotal in not only achieving project goals but also in maintaining an exceptional level of customer satisfaction throughout the migration, working with blended teams including customer, partner and Databricks staff. You will expertly navigate the balance between delivering outstanding results and aligning with the commercial objectives of the Professional Services organization.Your leadership and strategic insight will contribute directly to our clients' success and the growth of our business. In this position, you will report to the Senior Manager of Professional Services, working closely with cross-functional teams to deliver excellence at every stage.

The impact you will have:

• You will specialise in the delivery of large-scale migrations to the Databricks platform
• You will take ownership of all commercial delivery of services from a project administration and director perspective across numerous concurrent projects ranging from a single individual for 2-3 weeks to 12+ month engagements of multi-person teams
• You will define, manage, scope and mitigate risk across projects including enforcing project reporting, milestone tracking and financial management of engagements to accelerate our customers success adoption and their associated outcomes.
• Work with the account management and customer teams to complete handover from sales to delivery teams
• Work with the account management team to ensure accurate reporting on projects and keeping all relevant parties up-to-date with project activity and success

What we look for:

• Individuals who excel in a high paced environment working with cross-functional and multi-organisational teams on multiple customer engagements often concurrently.
• Extensive experience successfully managing and overseeing projects with teams of up to 40 people with contract values in excess of $1 million
• Experience in managing enterprise scale migrations, with global deployments ideally within the big data and analytics industry domain
• Experience of industry project management techniques including agile project delivery ideally with PMI/PRINCE/AGILE certification
• Excellent communication and analytical skills with ability to mentor team members to achieve success.
• Initiative, determination and a high degree of resourcefulness
• Strong commercial focus and will have managed both T&M and Fixed Price project engagements
• Travel is required up to 10%, more at peak times.

About Databricks

Databricks is the data and AI company. More than 10,000 organizations worldwide — including Comcast, Condé Nast, Grammarly, and over 50% of the Fortune 500 — rely on the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform to unify and democratize data, analytics and AI. Databricks is headquartered in San Francisco, with offices around the globe and was founded by the original creators of Lakehouse, Apache Spark, Delta Lake and MLflow. To learn more, follow Databricks on Twitter ,LinkedIn and Facebook .

Benefits

At Databricks, we strive to provide comprehensive benefits and perks that meet the needs of all of our employees. For specific details on the benefits offered in your region, please visithttps://www.mybenefitsnow.com/databricks .

Our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion

At Databricks, we are committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive culture where everyone can excel. We take great care to ensure that our hiring practices are inclusive and meet equal employment opportunity standards. Individuals looking for employment at Databricks are considered without regard to age, color, disability, ethnicity, family or marital status, gender identity or expression, language, national origin, physical and mental ability, political affiliation, race, religion, sexual orientation, socio-economic status, veteran status, and other protected characteristics.

Compliance

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