Engagement Leader-Redwood City, CA

Role:

Engagement Leader

Employment Type:

Contract; Duration 9 months with a possibility of extending further

Work location:

Redwood City, CA

Work mode:

Hybrid 3 days onsite at office location

About the Role

We are seeking for a Engagement Leader a strategic mid-leadership role responsible for orchestrating enterprise-level cloud migration initiatives across multiple projects and strategic customer accounts. The ideal candidate will oversee comprehensive migration planning, coordinate cross-functional teams, and align technical solutions with business objectives. This position requires strong project management expertise, balanced technical understanding, and exceptional stakeholder management skills to deliver successful cloud transformation outcomes. The role involves managing migration portfolios, developing standardized approaches, and ensuring projects are delivered on time, within budget, and to quality standards all while maintaining a focus on the client's long-term business goals and digital transformation journey.

What You'll Be Doing:

1. Portfolio and Program Management:
2. Manage multiple migration projects simultaneously across strategic customer accounts
3. Develop portfolio-level roadmaps and migration strategies
4. Balance resources effectively across multiple concurrent migration initiatives
5. Implement/Build standardized processes and templates to ensure consistency across the portfolio
6. Strategic Advisory:
7. Provide consultative guidance to clients on modernization strategies and cloud adoption frameworks
8. Align cloud migration initiatives with clients' business goals and digital transformation objectives
9. Develop business cases and ROI models for cloud migration at enterprise scale
10. Identify opportunities for innovation and continuous improvement across client engagements
11. Experience developing long-term roadmaps for enterprise cloud adoption
12. Proven track record of identifying cross-project dependencies and critical paths
13. Ability to anticipate and mitigate risks at both project and portfolio levels
14. Technical Leadership:
15. Collaborate with technical teams to understand application landscapes and dependencies
16. Contribute to migration approach discussions, bridging business requirements with technical solutions
17. Support architects in developing practical migration patterns that can be applied across projects
18. Maintain awareness of relevant cloud technologies and migration best practices to facilitate informed decision-making
19. Help translate technical concepts into business terms for effective stakeholder communication
20. Technical Acumen:
21. Familiarity with application portfolio assessment and rationalization tools
22. Understanding of cloud economics and FinOps principles
23. Knowledge of enterprise architecture frameworks (TOGAF, Zachman)
24. Familiarity with containerization, microservices architecture, and serverless computing
25. Analytical Skills:
26. Strong data analysis abilities to evaluate application portfolios and prioritize migration waves
27. Experience using quantitative methods to assess migration complexity and effort
28. Ability to create decision matrices for migration strategy selection
29. Proficiency in developing business cases with TCO/ROI calculations

Why Join Us:

• Be part of a rapidly rising, global technology innovator whose platforms and services are engaged by Fortune 1000 companies and industry leaders such as Microsoft & Amazon.
• Immerse yourself in a culture where creativity is celebrated and encouraged.
• Engage in thrilling projects and opportunities for your professional growth.
• Contribute to our quest to redefine the industry.
• Competitive compensation and benefits with occasional distinctive benefits that set us apart.

Who You Are-

• 15+ years of IT experience, combining deep technical expertise and strong program management execution in enterprise environments
• Proven success in delivering 2 3 large-scale cloud migration programs involving 5000+ servers and 100+ applications
• Skilled in client relationship management, acting as a trusted advisor to C-level stakeholders and business leaders
• Experienced in developing migration roadmaps, managing multi-wave delivery, and driving adoption of cloud-first operating models
• Strong hands-on exposure to AWS core services (EC2, VPC, RDS, S3, Lambda, ECS/EKS) and migration tools including Application Discovery Service
• Adept in budget management of large-scale programs ($10 15M), including vendor contract oversight
• Well-versed in risk identification and mitigation, ensuring smooth execution of migration initiatives
• Experienced in onsite and offshore coordination, leading client-facing operations while aligning with distributed delivery teams
• Proficient in technical integration, working across infrastructure, application, security, and network domains
• Strong knowledge of quality gates, compliance, and governance frameworks for enterprise cloud adoption
• Skilled at facilitating communication between business and technical teams, translating complex issues into actionable strategies
• Certified in AWS Solutions Architect Professional (preferred), with hands-on knowledge of modern cloud architectures
• Collaborative leader with the ability to optimize processes, enforce standards, and capture best practices for repeatable success

Education:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or related field.