Delivery Manager - Project Delivery

Delivery Manager – Delivery Management

3Cloud, A Cognizant Company, is an Azure-focused professional services firm helping clients transform their business through the power of the cloud. We specialize in Microsoft Azure to help clients accelerate innovation, operate more efficiently, and be more responsive to their customers' needs. As a Microsoft partner, we specialize in Azure Migration, Application Modernization and Development, Internet of Things, AI, and DevOps achieved through Azure-Enabled Infrastructure Automation.

This is a remote-based role in a US-based location only. Travel up to 20%.

The Delivery Manager in Delivery Management is responsible for coordinating delivery across multiple projects or workstreams, ensuring consistency, predictability, and strong client outcomes. At this level, you operate as a delivery orchestrator — setting the cadence and standards that Lead Project Managers and their teams execute against, and stepping in directly when complex risks, dependencies, or client conversations require it.

Building on the execution focus of a Lead Project Manager, the Delivery Manager broadens scope from a single engagement to multi-project / multi-workstream coordination. You mentor Lead PMs and delivery teams, drive delivery governance across engagements, contribute consultatively to client outcomes, and help shape the standards and methodologies used across the Delivery Management community.

Responsibilities

Delivery Leadership

You own delivery health across multiple concurrent engagements, ensuring consistent execution, predictable reporting, and effective management of cross-team dependencies and risks.

• Own delivery across multiple concurrent engagements or workstreams.
• Ensure consistency in delivery execution and reporting across teams.
• Manage cross-team dependencies, risks, and escalations to keep delivery on track.
• Assess parallel or competing change initiatives that may cause change saturation, and develop strategies to minimize delivery risk.

Team & Capability Development

You grow the capability of the delivery organization by mentoring Lead Project Managers and delivery teams, and by helping shape the standards that the broader Delivery Management community operates against.

• Mentor Lead Project Managers and delivery teams on delivery practices and client engagement.
• Model servant leadership and provide frequent, honest feedback that helps team members grow.
• Contribute to community leadership and the development of delivery standards across the practice.
• Establish clear performance standards aligned to outcomes, recognize strong performance, and address performance gaps through structured, outcome-focused conversations.

Agile & Methodology

You bring judgment to selecting and applying the right delivery methodology for each engagement, and you continuously raise the bar on delivery efficiency and process maturity.

• Assess and apply appropriate delivery methodologies (Agile, Waterfall, hybrid) based on engagement context.
• Drive process improvement and delivery efficiency across teams and engagements.

Client Engagement

You act as a consultative partner and internal advocate for clients, providing strategic guidance, aligning stakeholders, and resolving conflict to keep delivery and client outcomes in lockstep across multiple engagements.

• Provide strategic, consultative guidance to clients, leveraging industry experience and best practices to help them achieve their business objectives.
• Advocate for clients internally, ensuring their needs and concerns are addressed effectively by cross-functional teams such as sales, operations, and support.
• Support stakeholder alignment and lead conflict resolution across client and internal teams.

Pre-Sales

You contribute to growth by supporting scoping, estimation, and delivery planning for new and expanding engagements.

• Support scoping, estimation, and delivery planning during pre-sales activities.
• Partner with account and solution teams to ensure delivery readiness at engagement kickoff.

Requirements

This role is a fit for someone who can orchestrate delivery across multiple teams, mentor experienced Project Managers, and operate as a consultative partner to clients while keeping delivery governance and risk firmly in hand.

Required

• 5–7 years of consulting or delivery experience.
• 5–7 years of Agile / delivery methodology experience.
• Proven ability to lead multiple teams or projects simultaneously.
• Strong delivery governance and risk management experience.

Preferred

• Bachelor's degree.
• Certifications across the Agile or PMP spectrum.
• Scaled Agile (SAFe) experience and/or RTE-level certification.
• Experience with Azure DevOps, Jira, or similar work-management tools.
• Experience in pre-sales or account support activities.
• Experience managing delivery financials (budgets, margin, forecasts).
• Exposure to enterprise delivery environments.

Don't meet every single requirement? At 3Cloud, A Cognizant Company, we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace, so if you're excited about this role but your past experience doesn't align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway.

At this time, we cannot sponsor applicants for work visas.

This Job Posting will expire on Monday, July 27th, 2026.