Sys. Integration Sr. Specialist Advisor

Role: Offshore Delivery Lead

Total Experience: 15+ years
Relevant Experience: 10+ years

Role Overview

The Delivery Lead will own end-to-end delivery of the Microsoft Fabric engagement on a fixed-price basis, ensuring delivery commitments, quality, commercials and governance are managed effectively. The role will also coordinate service transition, ensuring a smooth handover to the relevant operational or support teams without requiring a separate Transition Lead.

Key Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end fixed-price delivery, including planning, milestones, resource utilisation, budget tracking and delivery commitments.
• Manage RAID (Risks, Assumptions, Issues and Dependencies), proactively resolving blockers and escalating critical risks.
• Coordinate client dependencies, decisions, access requirements and stakeholder commitments.
• Establish delivery governance, including status reporting, steering updates, progress reviews and action tracking.
• Manage scope changes, delivery estimates, effort tracking and commercial implications in accordance with contractual governance.
• Lead coordination across architecture, engineering, DevOps, analytics and QA workstreams.
• Own service-transition coordination, including operational readiness, knowledge transfer, documentation, support ownership and handover planning.
• Drive quality, adherence to agreed standards, continuous improvement and stakeholder satisfaction.

Required Skills and Experience

• 12+ years of overall IT experience, including 8+ years in delivery management, project management or technology programme delivery.
• Proven experience managing fixed-price technology engagements and delivery commitments.
• Strong understanding of Microsoft Azure, Microsoft Fabric, data engineering or cloud data platform delivery.
• Experience in delivery governance, RAID management, dependency management, financial tracking and client reporting.
• Experience coordinating cross-functional, geographically distributed teams.
• Understanding of service transition, operational readiness, release governance and production handover.
• Strong stakeholder management, communication, negotiation and problem-solving skills.

Preferred: Experience delivering Microsoft data platform or analytics programmes for banking or other regulated financial services clients.