Data Delivery Director - AWS

• • Own successful delivery outcomes across all active engagements, ensuring projects are delivered on time, within budget, and meeting quality expectations.
• Establish and govern delivery excellence through standardized reporting, portfolio reviews, executive steering committees, and client governance frameworks.
• Lead executive-level escalations and recovery programs for at-risk engagements.
• Ensure adherence to contractual obligations, scope management processes, change controls, and risk mitigation strategies.
• Drive consistency and operational excellence across AWS, Microsoft, Informatica Cloud, and multi-platform delivery teams.

• Own portfolio financial performance, including utilization, realization, delivery margin, forecasting accuracy, and revenue growth.
• Manage large-scale consulting portfolios with accountability for P&L performance.
• Collaborate with sales and account leadership to identify expansion opportunities, including upsell, cross-sell, managed services, and strategic transformation initiatives.
• Support complex pursuits through solution validation, effort estimation, staffing strategies, pricing reviews, and executive presentations.
• Ensure delivery organizations operate efficiently while maintaining client satisfaction and profitability.

• Establish and enforce engineering standards, reference architectures, quality controls, testing practices, CI/CD standards, and DataOps principles.
• Partner with Solution Architects, Practice Leaders, and Centers of Excellence (CoEs) to ensure scalable and secure solution designs.
• Govern enterprise data modernization programs, including cloud migrations, platform consolidations, and data transformation initiatives.
• Champion reusable accelerators, frameworks, intellectual property, and automation practices that improve delivery speed and margin.
• Drive adoption of emerging capabilities including AI-assisted development, FinOps, data observability, and cloud-native architectures.

• Lead and mentor Delivery Managers, Program Managers, Engagement Managers, Architects, and Technical Leads.
• Build succession plans and leadership pipelines to support organizational growth.
• Partner with Talent Acquisition and Resource Management teams on workforce planning, hiring strategies, and capacity forecasting.
• Drive certification and technical development programs aligned with AWS, Microsoft, Informatica, Snowflake, and Databricks ecosystems.
• Foster a culture of accountability, collaboration, high performance, and continuous improvement.

• Serve as the executive delivery sponsor for strategic accounts and key customer relationships.
• Build trusted advisor relationships with client executives, including CIOs, CDOs, CTOs, VPs, and business stakeholders.
• Partner closely with AWS, Microsoft, Informatica, and other technology partners to support joint initiatives, co-sell opportunities, and partnership growth objectives.
• Own customer satisfaction metrics, executive feedback programs, and long-term account success.
• Act as the senior escalation point for client delivery concerns and strategic planning discussions.

• • • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related field. Master's degree preferred.

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in a senior delivery leadership role (Senior Manager, Associate Director, Director, or equivalent).

• Proven experience managing large-scale delivery portfolios consisting of

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• Demonstrated ownership of portfolio P&L, delivery operations, forecasting, resource management, and margin performance.
• Deep expertise in at least two of the following: • AWS Data & Analytics Services
• Microsoft Azure Data Platform / Microsoft Fabric
• Informatica Intelligent Data Management Cloud (IDMC)
• Snowflake
• Databricks

• Experience leading enterprise-scale data migrations, modernization initiatives, cloud transformations, and platform consolidation programs.
• Strong understanding of delivery governance frameworks, contract management, estimation methodologies, commercial models, and program risk management.
• Experience supporting business development efforts and helping close multi-million-dollar consulting or managed services engagements.
• Exceptional executive communication, stakeholder management, negotiation, and leadership skills.

Perficient full-time employees receive complete and competitive benefits. We offer a collaborative work environment, competitive compensation, generous work/life opportunities and an outstanding benefits package that includes paid time off plus holidays. In addition, all colleagues are eligible for a number of rewards and recognition programs including billable bonus opportunities. Encouraging a healthy work/life balance and providing our colleagues great benefits are just part of what makes Perficient a great place to work.