Delivery Lead for Cloud & Data Projects

Remote; San Francisco (CA); Remote; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Mactores is seeking a Project Manager to lead distributed engineering teams across India and three US time zones on customer engagements with fixed delivery dates. You’ll run daily stand-ups, sprint planning, and cross-functional reviews, translating technical progress into business language and keeping the project plan defensible and on track.

You will own risk, RAID logs, change processes, and escalations, pushing back on scope creep with data, tracking burn-rate, and ensuring milestones are

Qualifications

• 3+ years of delivery experience on cloud engineering or data engineering projects.
• Hands-on fluency with Smartsheet, Jira / Confluence, and Clockify — you can stand up the tooling on day one.
• Excellent written and spoken communication, facilitation, negotiation, and coaching skills.
• Strong prioritization and problem-solving instincts.
• A demonstrable track record of driving outcomes, not just reporting on them.
• Demonstrated experience managing at least one fixed-bid project from kickoff through closure, including scope change negotiation with clients.
• A strong grasp of Agile delivery metrics — velocity, burndown, sprint predictability.

Responsibilities

• Build the project plan in Smartsheet from the Solutions Architect's scope of work, real dependencies, a defensible critical path, sprint boundaries overlaid on the timeline.
• Track scope, hours, and budget in real time. Flag burn-rate risk early and push back on scope creep with numbers, not gut feel.
• Maintain a live risk register. Surface risks to the client and drive mitigation.
• Maintain a live RAID log and an action tracker with clear ownership and closure.
• Run daily stand-ups, sprint planning, and retrospectives that produce decisions, not discussions.
• Remove sprint blockers personally and chase client-side data dependencies to avoid delays.
• Keep trackers honest with owners and dates; ensure timely closure of actions.
• Translate technical progress into business language for the customer, and business priorities into engineers' requirements.

Skills

Smartsheet

Jira/Confluence

Clockify

Communication

Agile metrics

Tools

Smartsheet

Jira

Confluence

Clockify

Job description

Mactores is seeking a Project Manager to lead distributed engineering teams across India and three US time zones on customer engagements with fixed delivery dates. You’ll run daily stand-ups, sprint planning, and cross-functional reviews, translating technical progress into business language and keeping the project plan defensible and on track.

You will own risk, RAID logs, change processes, and escalations, pushing back on scope creep with data, tracking burn-rate, and ensuring milestones are