A career in IBM Consulting is rooted by long-term relationships and close collaboration with clients across the globe. You'll work with visionaries across multiple industries to improve the hybrid cloud and AI journey for the most innovative and valuable companies in the world. Your ability to accelerate impact and make meaningful change for your clients is enabled by our strategic partner ecosystem and our robust technology platforms across the IBM portfolio.
As a Complex Project Manager, you will be responsible for the delivery of large-scale, high-impact projects involving hybrid multicloud platforms. This role focuses on integrating public, private, and hybrid cloud environments (e.g., AWS, IBM ,Azure, Google Cloud, and on-premises infrastructure) to drive enterprise-level innovation, modernization, and operational efficiency. The ideal candidate will manage complex application development, infrastructure migrations, and security implementations, ensuring alignment with business objectives, stakeholder expectations, and regulatory compliance. This is a hybrid position, blending remote and on-site work, with opportunities to collaborate on cutting-edge multicloud strategies. This role requires bridging technical teams, stakeholders, and Japanese clients, leveraging bilingual proficiency to facilitate effective communication in multinational environments. The ideal candidate will have hands-on experience in cloud platforms, data pipelines, devops practices, analytics tools, and agile methodologies, while managing risks, budgets, and timelines for high-stakes projects in software development and data-centric initiatives.
An ambitious individual who can work under your own direction towards agreed targets and goals, and can manage changes and work under stress. You are curious to learn as demonstrated by your up-to-date technical knowledge. You are a good team player and you are familiar with Agile methodologies and principles and/or have experience working in an Agile team. We seek an applicant who will thrive in an open, dynamic, flexible, fun, spirited, collaborative environment; an individual who desires creative freedom and the opportunity to work in a high performing team.
This position is suited for professionals with 7 to 10 years of experience in technical project management, particularly in cloud-native applications and data analytics transformations, and who can thrive in cross-cultural settings with Japanese enterprise clients.
As a Complex Project Manager you will:
- § Lead end-to-end project lifecycle for cloud application development and deployment, including scoping, resource allocation, timeline management, and budget oversight, with integrated data workflows for analytics and reporting.
- § Cloud Infrastructure Oversight: Drive the design, deployment, and optimization of hybrid multicloud architectures, including networking, security controls, and application migrations. Ensure seamless integration across platforms like AWS, IBM,Azure, and on-premises systems, with a focus on scalability and cost efficiency.
- § Collaborate with cross-functional teams (developers, data engineers, analysts, QA, and stakeholders) to design and implement data pipelines, ETL/ELT processes, and analytics solutions on cloud platforms for scalable data processing and insights generation.
- § Act as a bilingual liaison between Japanese clients, internal teams, and third-party vendors, ensuring clear communication of technical requirements, progress updates, issue resolutions, and data insights in both Japanese and English.
- § Identify and mitigate project risks, including those related to cloud scalability, data privacy/compliance, integration challenges, and analytics accuracy; conduct post-release reviews, performance optimizations, and data quality audits.
- § Oversee application releases from development through testing and production deployment on cloud platforms, including data lake/warehouse management and monitoring of analytics dashboards for key performance indicators (KPIs).
- § Develop and maintain project documentation, including technical support guides, data models, estimation plans, and knowledge bases using tools like Jira, Confluence, and data cataloguing platforms.
- § Drive customer success by providing tailored solutions, troubleshooting complex data-related issues, and aligning deliverables with business objectives in Japanese market contexts, such as predictive analytics and trend forecasting.
- § Stay abreast of emerging cloud and data analytics technologies (e.g., AI/ML integration for advanced analytics), incorporating best practices to enhance data governance, reliability, and efficiency.