Director of Project Management

nClouds is seeking an experienced Director of Project Management to lead and strengthen their project delivery function across a fast-paced, global technology organization. The role involves overseeing the Project Management Office and ensuring high-quality delivery of cloud transformation engagements while developing a world-class project management organization.

Responsibilities:

• Lead the strategic vision, development, and continuous improvement of the Project Management Office
• Establish enterprise project management methodologies, governance, standards, and best practices aligned with AWS consulting delivery
• Build scalable PMO processes that support growth across multiple practices including Cloud Engineering, DevOps, Platform Engineering, Data & AI, Migration & Modernization, Managed Services, and Application Modernization
• Develop a culture of operational excellence, accountability, transparency, and customer obsession
• Oversee a portfolio of complex AWS consulting engagements from initiation through successful delivery
• Partner with Delivery Leadership to prioritize projects based on strategic objectives, customer commitments, resource capacity, and financial performance
• Ensure projects are delivered on schedule, within scope, within budget, and achieve contractual and business outcomes
• Monitor portfolio health through executive dashboards, KPIs, utilization metrics, financial performance, customer satisfaction, and delivery risk indicators
• Implement consistent project health reviews, stage gates, executive steering committees, and governance routines
• Define and maintain project lifecycle methodologies for Agile, Waterfall, and hybrid delivery models
• Standardize project documentation, reporting, risk management, issue escalation, change control, and executive communications
• Establish project intake, prioritization, forecasting, capacity planning, and resource allocation processes
• Develop standardized delivery playbooks for AWS consulting engagements
• Foster collaboration across Engineering, Architecture, Sales, Customer Success, Finance, Operations, and Executive Leadership
• Serve as the executive point of contact for strategic customer delivery governance
• Partner with executive sponsors to ensure alignment on business outcomes, timelines, budgets, and expectations
• Facilitate Executive Business Reviews (EBRs), steering committees, and customer governance meetings
• Manage executive-level escalations with professionalism and urgency
• Drive continuous improvement across project delivery processes
• Implement portfolio management tools, reporting automation, and delivery analytics
• Develop KPIs measuring project health, delivery quality, profitability, customer satisfaction (NPS/CSAT), resource utilization, and delivery predictability
• Partner with Finance to improve forecasting, revenue recognition support, and project profitability
• Collaborate with AWS Partner Management and Alliance teams to support AWS-funded programs including MAP, Migration Acceleration Program, Well-Architected Framework Reviews, Marketplace engagements, and Strategic Collaboration Agreements (SCAs)

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Information Technology, Engineering, Project Management, or a related field required
• Project Management Professional (PMP®) certification required
• 10+ years of progressive project and program management experience
• 5+ years leading a Project Management Office (PMO), Program Management Office, or enterprise consulting delivery organization
• Experience managing cloud transformation or technology consulting engagements
• Experience leading multiple concurrent enterprise projects exceeding several million dollars in delivery value
• Proven success building PMO governance, standards, methodologies, and delivery frameworks
• Strong financial acumen including project forecasting, budgeting, margin management, and resource planning
• Exceptional executive communication, fluency in English, leadership, presentation, and stakeholder management skills
• MBA or Master's degree
• AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner (minimum preferred)
• AWS Solutions Architect – Associate or Professional certification strongly preferred
• PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP), PgMP, Scrum Master, SAFe, or Lean certifications
• Experience working within an AWS Premier Tier Services Partner, cloud consulting organization, or systems integrator
• Experience supporting AWS Marketplace, MAP, Well-Architected Reviews, or AWS Partner Programs