Middle Management Delivery Manager - GCP Cloud

EPAM Systems; India; On-site; INR 1,620,000 - 1,980,000; Full time

Job summary

EPAM Systems is seeking a Middle Management Delivery Manager specializing in GCP Cloud to steer complex migration and modernization programs. You will lead cross-functional teams from discovery through transition to operations, aligning with client stakeholders and governance.

You will review architectures, drive readiness and governance forums, and partner with business leaders to convert constraints into actionable decisions. Strong delivery discipline and GenAI familiarity are a plus.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of IT delivery leadership in cloud transformation or migration programmes.
• Experience with GCP resource hierarchy and security concepts is preferred.
• Strong governance, budgeting, and stakeholder management skills.

Responsibilities

• Own full programme delivery across discovery to operations with cross-functional teams.
• Review architectures and migration strategies, confirm dependencies and cost assumptions.
• Chair governance forums and drive Go/No-Go decisions with plan cutover and validation.
• Partner with client leaders to translate constraints into business impacts and options.
• Establish and track delivery metrics including migration throughput and cost realization.
• Drive FinOps adoption, policy tagging, budget controls, and optimization backlogs.
• Support presales, estimation, and capability development; coach delivery managers.
• Use GenAI tools to improve planning, reporting, risk analysis while protecting data/IP.

Skills

GCP Cloud

Cloud migration

Delivery management

Agile methodologies

Jira/Confluence/ADO/Project

Terraform

Kubernetes

FinOps

GenAI tools

Tools

Jira

Confluence

ADO

Microsoft Project

Job description

Middle Management Delivery Manager - GCP Cloud

We are hiring a Middle Management Delivery Manager - GCP Cloud to steer complex cloud migration and modernization programs and deliver measurable outcomes. You will lead cross-functional teams across discovery through transition to operations, aligning delivery plans with client stakeholders and governance. Bring your delivery rigor and cloud know-how.

Responsibilities

• Own full programme delivery across discovery, assessment, landing-zone readiness, wave planning, migration execution, cutover, warranty, and transition to operations with accountability for Project/People/Account Management Lead distributed, cross-functional teams and control scope, timelines, budget, staffing, dependencies, risks, issues, and executive governance while considering Data Privacy, Security, IP & Responsible AI activities.
• Review solution architectures and migration strategies and confirm application dependency maps, migration waves, security, resilience, performance, operability, and cost assumptions.
• Chair readiness and technical governance forums such as ARB, WAR etc. and drive Go/No-Go decisions while coordinating cutover, rollback, business validation, warranty, and service acceptance.
• Partner with client leaders across business, security, infrastructure, application, data, and operations to convert technical constraints into clear business impacts and decision options.
• Establish and track delivery metrics including migration throughput, schedule variance, defect leakage, cutover success, availability, performance, cloud spend, and benefits realization.
• Drive cloud governance and FinOps adoption, including policy, tagging, cost allocation, budget controls, rightsizing, and optimization backlogs.
• Support presales, estimation, solution shaping, delivery assurance, account growth, and capability development and coach delivery managers and technical leads.
• Use approved enterprise GenAI tools responsibly to improve planning, reporting, risk analysis, knowledge management, and stakeholder communication while protecting data and intellectual property.

Requirements

• Extensive IT delivery experience, including 5+ years leading large cloud transformation, application modernization, infrastructure, or migration programmes across multiple workstreams using Agile & Hybrid methodologies.
• Practical knowledge of GCP resource hierarchy (organizations, folders, projects), IAM, VPC, Cloud Load Balancing, Cloud DNS, Cloud Logging/Monitoring, Cloud KMS, and backup/DR concepts.
• Working familiarity with migration strategy patterns such as rehost, replatform, and refactor.
• Ability to govern identity, network segmentation, key management, logging, vulnerability remediation, backup/DR, business continuity, and regulatory requirements.
• Demonstrated expertise in RAID management, financial governance, change control, and executive reporting.
• Hands-on experience with project tracking systems (Jira/Confluence/ADO/Project) and usage of Gen AI tools for Delivery Management.
• Solid understanding of CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code (Terraform), containers/Kubernetes (GKE), APIs, integration patterns, and SRE/observability fundamentals.
• Proven ability to facilitate architecture reviews and explain technical trade-offs, costs, risks, and migration decisions to business and engineering audiences.
• Nice to have Exposure to Google Cloud Architecture Framework, Cloud Foundation Toolkit, landing-zone/foundation programmes, and Google Cloud migration methodologies.
• Google Cloud certification such as Google Cloud Digital Leader, Professional Cloud Architect or equivalent.
• Programme-management certifications including PMP, PMI-ACP, PRINCE2, SAFe, ITIL, or equivalent.