Technical Project Manager – AI & Data

Deloitte Africa; Midrand; On-site; ZAR 800,000 - 1,200,000; Full time

Job summary

Deloitte Africa is seeking a Technical Project Manager to lead AI and Data initiatives for high-impact clients across Africa. With a focus on project delivery excellence, the role involves managing cross-disciplinary teams and ensuring alignment with client transformation goals. The ideal candidate will have significant experience in technical project management, a strong understanding of AI/ML, and the ability to engage effectively with stakeholders.

Qualifications

• 8–12+ years total experience.
• 3–5+ years in technical project or program management.
• Familiarity with ML lifecycle and cloud-native AI platforms.

Responsibilities

• Lead cross-functional teams to deliver AI and Data projects.
• Define and manage project plans, schedules, and risks.
• Act as the primary liaison between technical teams and business stakeholders.

Skills

Technical fluency

Project leadership

Client-facing consulting

Stakeholder engagement

Education

Bachelor's in Engineering, Computer Science, or Data Science

Master’s preferred

Job description

Company Description

At Deloitte, our Purpose is to make an impact that matters for our clients, our people, and society. This is the lens for which our global strategy is set. It unites Deloitte professionals across geographies, businesses, and skills. It makes us better at what we do and how we do it. It enables us to deliver on our promises to stakeholders, while creating the lasting impact we seek.

Harnessing the talent of 457 000+ people located across more than 150 countries and territories, our size and scale puts us in a unique position to help change the world for the better—by bringing together the services we provide, the societal investments we make, and the collaborations we advance through our ecosystems.

Deloitte offers career opportunities across Audit & Assurance (A&A), Tax & Legal (T&L) and our Consulting Services business, which is made up of Strategy, Risk & Transactions (SR&T) and Technology & Transformation (T&T).

Deloitte Consulting — Our Culture

Innovation, transformation and leadership occur in many ways. At Deloitte, our ability to help solve clients’ most complex issues is distinct. We deliver strategy and implementation, from a business and technology view, to help lead in the markets where our clients compete.

Are you a game changer? Do you believe in adding advantage at every level in everything you do? You may be one of us.

Deloitte Consulting is growing, with a focus on developing our already powerful teams across our portfolio of offerings. We are looking for smart, accountable, innovative professionals with technical expertise and deep industry experience insights. The combination of our 6 areas of expertise, our well-developed industry structure and our integrated signature solutions is a unique offering never seen before on the African continent.

Job Description

Role Summary

We are seeking aTechnical Project Manager (TPM) to lead theend-to-end delivery of AI and Data initiatives for high-impact clients across the African continent. This role requires ablend of technical fluency, project leadership expertise, and client-facing consulting capability.

You will lead multi-disciplinary teams across data engineering, data science, and business consulting, ensuring delivery excellence and measurable business impact from AI & Data transformation initiatives.

Key Responsibilities

1. AI & Data Program & Project delivery

• Lead cross-functional teams to deliver AI and Data projects on time, within scope, and to expected quality
• Define and manage project plans, sprint schedules, dependencies, risks, and issue resolution
• Drive delivery across model development, data readiness, deployment, and operationalization (MLOps)
• 2. Stakeholder engagement & Value realisation
  • Act as the primary interface between technical teams and business stakeholders
  • Translate complex technical progress intoclear business outcomes and business impact
  • Align delivery with broader client transformation agendas (AI strategy, platform, use cases, operations)
  • Facilitate collaboration across AI/ML, data engineering, and platform architecture
  • Understand AI use case pipelines: experimentation, model development, evaluation, deployment
  • Support the definition of scalable AI operating models, platforms, and governance structures
  • Establish cadence of status reviews, steering committees, and retrospectives
  • Maintain comprehensive project documentation, risk logs, and financial tracking
  • Ensure compliance with delivery methodologies (Agile, Scrum, hybrid)
• 3. Technical & Domain fluency
  4. Governance & Reporting

Qualifications

8–12+ years total
3–5+ years in technical project or program management
2+ years managing AI/ML or advanced analytics initiatives

Delivery Context:

Experience in consulting, digital transformation, or enterprise technology delivery (client-facing roles preferred)

AI/Tech Understanding:

Familiarity with ML lifecycle, MLOps, data science workflows
Basic understanding of cloud-native AI platforms (Azure ML, Vertex AI, SageMaker)

Methodologies:

Agile, Scrum, Kanban, Hybrid delivery approaches
Experience managing cross-shore or multi-market teams

Education:

Bachelor's in Engineering, Computer Science, Data Science, or related
Master’s preferred

Certifications:

PMP, Prince2, or Scrum Master (bonus: SAFe, AI/ML certifications)

Additional Information

Regional & Culture fit

• Experience delivering projects inAfrica or emerging markets
• Strong cross-cultural communication and executive stakeholder management
• Resilient, proactive, and structured thinker with high integrity

At Deloitte, we want everyone to feel they can be themselves and to thrive at work—in every country, in everything we do, every day.We aim to create a workplace where everyone is treated fairly and with respect, including reasonable accommodation for persons with disabilities. Weseek to create and leverage our diverse workforce to build an inclusive environment across the African continent.

Join us. Shape the future. Win big.

Key Performance areas

• Strategic Impact:Supports the Senior Manager on delivery of designated engagement / project, managing the implementation of the agreed deliverables.
• Client Impact: External/Internal:Manages and maintains oversight of deliverables of team on client engagements.
• Operational Effectiveness: Communicates detail of Audit Engagement Agreement to teams and maintains level monitoring of adherence by all parties.
• Development/Growth of Team:Shares expertise and knowledge with team members and counselees on an ongoing basis.
• Budgets / Profitability:Manages engagement budget through accurate budgeting, cost control and profitability management.

Differentiators for this specific role

• Wining Business:Contributes to the regional and business areas winning business opportunities and targets, including contribution to Industry Manager initiatives and cross service line selling and collaboration.

Leadership Capabilities

• Living our Purpose -Acts as a role model, embracing and living our purpose and values, and recognizing others for the impact they make.
• Talent development -Develops high-performing people and teams through challenging and meaningful opportunities.
• Performance drive- Delivers exceptional client service; maximizes results and drives high performance from people while fostering collaboration across businesses and borders.
• Influence- Influences clients, teams, and individuals positively, leading by example and establishing confident relationships with increasingly senior people.
• Strategic direction -Understands key objectives for clients and Deloitte, aligns people to objectives and sets priorities and direction.

Technical and Professional Capabilities

• Stakeholder Focus:Leverages a deep understanding of audit and risk advisory services and stakeholder needs to deliver high quality engagement.
• Become experts in risk assessments and audit responses:Takes an independent view and contributes heavily in developing and challenging the risk assessment and controls testing strategy and designing appropriate audit responses for risks.
• Integrate engagement teams and manage referred work:Collaborates effectively across Deloitte functions to deliver a seamless audit that is responsive to stakeholder needs.
• Make appropriate use of tools, guidance and methodology:Provides appropriate guidance to the audit team in relation to the application of tools, guidance and methodology in delivering the audit.
• Manage project plans to optimize engagements:Proactively manages the project plan through efficient use of resources and tracking delivery of assigned tasks, guiding team members’ prioritization.
• Formulate reasonable judgements and conclusions in order to deliver informative and timely outputs:Uses judgement and consults appropriately when dealing with complex matters, applying an appropriate level of professional scepticism.
• Apply Ethical and Professional Standards:Understands their business security, ethical and compliance responsibilities, displaying best practice and actively encouraging appropriate behaviours of engagement teams.

At Deloitte, we want everyone to feel they can be themselves and to thrive at work—in every country, in everything we do, every day.We aim to create a workplace where everyone is treated fairly and with respect, including reasonable accommodation for persons with disabilities. Weseek to create and leverage our diverse workforce to build an inclusive environment across the African continent.

Note: The list of tasks / duties and responsibilities contained in this document is not necessarily exhaustive. Deloitte may ask the employee to carry out additional duties or responsibilities, which may fall reasonably within the ambit of the role profile, depending on operational requirements.

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