The Role
Lead key IT projects focused on application development, cloud transformation and data engineering across onshore and offshore teams, ensuring delivery aligns with business needs.
Summary Generated by Built In
We’re looking for an experienced Onshore IT Project Lead to support our Global Capability Center (GCC) delivery for key Application Development, Cloud Transformation and Data Engineering initiatives. This role will serve as the onshore anchor for projects executed through the GCC, ensuring strong coordination, clear communication, and alignment between business stakeholders, IT leadership, and offshore delivery teams.
The ideal candidate will have hands-on experience managing onshore-offshore or GCC IT programs across distributed teams, solid technical understanding of application, data and cloud environments, and a strong ability to translate business priorities into actionable delivery plans.
Key Responsibilities
Required Experience & Skills
Success factors –
The ideal candidate will have hands-on experience managing onshore-offshore or GCC IT programs across distributed teams, solid technical understanding of application, data and cloud environments, and a strong ability to translate business priorities into actionable delivery plans.
Key Responsibilities
- Oversee end-to-end delivery of application development, data pipeline modernization, and cloud migration projects executed via the GCC model.
- Work closely with offshore delivery managers, architects, developers, data engineers, and QA teams to ensure smooth and efficient delivery.
- Manage project scope, timelines, risks, dependencies, and budgets while ensuring quality and compliance standards are met.
- Assist in project governance including reviews, reporting, and escalation management to maintain transparency with Project Management (PMO).
- Act as the single point of contact for business, IT, and GCC teams on project priorities, progress, and issue resolution.
- Support Agile ceremonies (sprint planning, retrospectives, demos) and ensure continuous alignment with business outcomes.
- Partner with architects, data stewards and technical leads on solution design, ETL/ELT workflows, migration strategy, and technical feasibility.
- Identify and drive process improvements, automation opportunities, and delivery efficiencies across GCC operations.
- Contribute to strengthening the GCC governance framework and delivery best practices.
Required Experience & Skills
- 5 to 8 years of experience in IT project or program delivery, including at least 3 years managing work across onshore–offshore teams.
- Proven experience leading application development, data engineering and/or cloud transformation projects.
- Strong understanding of software development lifecycle (SDLC), Agile methodologies, Application Development, DataOps, and DevOps practices.
- Working knowledge of cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP) and migration approaches (re-host, re-platform, re-architect).
- Experience with data pipelines, data lakes, ETL frameworks, and SQL/Python-based data workflows is a strong plus.
- Ability to coordinate multiple streams of work and manage complex dependencies.
- Excellent stakeholder communication and collaboration skills across technical and business teams.
- Strong problem-solving and decision-making abilities with a focus on delivery outcomes.
- PMP, CSM, or other relevant certifications are a plus.
- This can be a remote role as well.
Success factors –
- Seamless alignment between onshore and GCC delivery teams.
- On-time, high-quality delivery of applications and cloud projects with minimal escalations.
- Clear and consistent communication across teams and leadership.
- Visible contribution to maturing the GCC operating and governance model.
- Continuous improvement in delivery efficiency and Onshore Project Management satisfaction.
Top Skills
AWS
Azure
GCP
Python
SQL
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The Company
What We Do
Kaizen is an insights, data, and consulting products and services company that provides clients unmatched speed to achieving business objectives. Working from client and industry data, Kaizen combines its advanced analytics solutions and secure suite of API data from KaizenDataLabs™, with decades of proven subject matter expertise to deliver actionable and accessible insights across the value chain.
For more information, visit http://www.kaizenanalytix.com, or email us at [email protected]
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