Project Lead, Delivery

Overview

The Technical Project Lead plays a hands-on leadership role within the Cloud, Data, Apps & AI practice, providing technical oversight and delivery assurance across complex client engagements. This role focuses on guiding consultants, validating technical approaches, and ensuring solution delivery aligns with architectural standards, quality expectations, and business outcomes.

The Technical Project Lead acts as a trusted technical authority—bridging strategy and execution—without owning project schedules, planning artifacts, or formal communication management.

Responsibilities

Technical Oversight & Delivery Assurance

Provide technical leadership across Cloud, Data, Application, and AI initiatives to ensure solutions are sound, scalable, and aligned to target architectures

Review and validate solution designs, technical decisions, and implementation approaches proposed by consultants and delivery teams

Ensure delivered solutions meet defined technical requirements, security standards, and performance expectations

Identify technical risks early and guide teams toward effective mitigation strategies

Consultant Leadership & Enablement

Guide and mentor consultants and engineers to ensure high-quality execution and adherence to best practices

Act as an escalation point for technical challenges, unblocking teams through hands-on problem solving

Promote consistent engineering standards, reusable patterns, and modern development practices across engagements

Support onboarding and ramp-up of consultants by providing technical context and direction

Cross‑Functional Technical Collaboration

Partner with architects, engineering leads, and platform teams to ensure alignment across Cloud, Data, Apps, and AI domains

Translate high-level solution intent into clear technical guidance for delivery teams

Validate integrations across systems, platforms, and data pipelines

Delivery Quality & Client Outcomes

Ensure technical deliverables align with agreed scope, quality benchmarks, and expected outcomes

Support client confidence through strong technical leadership and consistent delivery execution

Contribute to continuous improvement by identifying delivery efficiencies and technical enhancements

Practice & Business Support

Contribute technical expertise to pre‑delivery discussions, solution shaping, and internal reviews

Support account growth by ensuring strong technical execution and repeatable delivery success

Share lessons learned, patterns, and innovations back into the Tech Services practice

Qualifications

5+ years of experience in technical leadership roles supporting cloud, application, data, or AI delivery initiatives

Strong hands-on background in one or more of the following:

Cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP)

Application development (modern web, APIs, microservices)

Data platforms, analytics, or AI/ML solutions

Proven experience guiding technical teams and overseeing solution delivery quality

Ability to evaluate designs, code, and implementations for alignment with best practices

Experience working within technology consulting or professional services environments

Preferred Qualifications

Experience supporting large enterprise clients (including Walmart environments)

Exposure to multi‑disciplinary delivery teams spanning Cloud, Data, Apps, and AI

Familiarity with Agile delivery environments (without ownership of ceremonies or schedules)

Technical certifications in cloud platforms, data technologies, or architecture frameworks

Technical Oversight & Delivery Assurance

Provide technical leadership across Cloud, Data, Application, and AI initiatives to ensure solutions are sound, scalable, and aligned to target architectures

Review and validate solution designs, technical decisions, and implementation approaches proposed by consultants and delivery teams

Ensure delivered solutions meet defined technical requirements, security standards, and performance expectations

Identify technical risks early and guide teams toward effective mitigation strategies

Consultant Leadership & Enablement

Guide and mentor consultants and engineers to ensure high-quality execution and adherence to best practices

Act as an escalation point for technical challenges, unblocking teams through hands-on problem solving

Promote consistent engineering standards, reusable patterns, and modern development practices across engagements

Support onboarding and ramp-up of consultants by providing technical context and direction

Cross‑Functional Technical Collaboration

Partner with architects, engineering leads, and platform teams to ensure alignment across Cloud, Data, Apps, and AI domains

Translate high-level solution intent into clear technical guidance for delivery teams

Validate integrations across systems, platforms, and data pipelines

Delivery Quality & Client Outcomes

Ensure technical deliverables align with agreed scope, quality benchmarks, and expected outcomes

Support client confidence through strong technical leadership and consistent delivery execution

Contribute to continuous improvement by identifying delivery efficiencies and technical enhancements

Practice & Business Support

Contribute technical expertise to pre‑delivery discussions, solution shaping, and internal reviews

Support account growth by ensuring strong technical execution and repeatable delivery success

Share lessons learned, patterns, and innovations back into the Tech Services practice

5+ years of experience in technical leadership roles supporting cloud, application, data, or AI delivery initiatives

Strong hands-on background in one or more of the following:

Cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP)

Application development (modern web, APIs, microservices)

Data platforms, analytics, or AI/ML solutions

Proven experience guiding technical teams and overseeing solution delivery quality

Ability to evaluate designs, code, and implementations for alignment with best practices

Experience working within technology consulting or professional services environments

Preferred Qualifications

Experience supporting large enterprise clients (including Walmart environments)

Exposure to multi‑disciplinary delivery teams spanning Cloud, Data, Apps, and AI

Familiarity with Agile delivery environments (without ownership of ceremonies or schedules)

Technical certifications in cloud platforms, data technologies, or architecture frameworks