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Lead complex IT professional-services programs from strategy through delivery. Manage budgets, risk, resources, and governance; engage executive stakeholders; champion Scrum/hybrid practices; mentor PMs; drive customer retention and follow-on opportunities.

Manage customer-facing projects to ensure they are delivered on time, within budget, and meet client satisfaction. Lead multiple project teams, oversee budgets, and develop client relationships while optimizing processes and driving operational improvements.

Support third-party vendor security reviews by triaging intake, executing standard review workflows, maintaining vendor metadata, ensuring data quality, tracking SLAs, documenting outcomes, and assisting automation and reporting under senior guidance.

Design, build, and maintain scalable, fault-tolerant streaming data architectures and real-time pipelines using Kafka, MSK, and Kinesis. Implement stream processing, monitoring, security, IaC, and CI/CD. Collaborate with data teams, provide technical leadership, and optimize latency, throughput, and cost for real-time analytics and downstream systems.

Lead enterprise cloud architecture engagements, define target-state AWS architecture and roadmaps, establish standards and governance, design scalable multi-account and hybrid infrastructures, implement IaC (Terraform/CloudFormation), build automation and CI/CD pipelines, mentor client teams, optimize cost/performance/security, and lead architecture reviews and workshops.

Lead and execute enterprise-scale VMware-to-AWS datacenter migrations using AWS migration tools (MGN, CloudEndure, HCX). Perform assessments, dependency mapping, wave-based migration planning, build AWS landing zones, implement hybrid connectivity, automate workflows with Terraform/CloudFormation and scripting, and provide client guidance, post-migration validation, and hypercare for large migration factories (200–500 VMs).

Lead technical delivery of AWS solutions, design and document architectures (landing zones, container platforms, storage, networking), mentor teams, perform cost/risk analyses, drive IaC and DevOps practices, ensure project governance, and support pre-sales and client communication.

Lead DevOps transformation and platform engineering for enterprise clients: design and implement CI/CD platforms, Kubernetes/EKS infrastructure, IaC (Terraform/CloudFormation/CDK), observability, and DevSecOps integrations; mentor client teams, run workshops, troubleshoot pipelines, and ensure reliability, security, and compliance.