Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Mactores is an agent-native AWS modernization firm focused on delivering production systems, retiring legacy platforms, and measuring outcomes. The Project Manager will own delivery scope, timelines, budgets, risks, and sprint execution across distributed cloud and data engineering teams, while managing customer communication, escalations, dependencies, and delivery predictability.
Responsibilities
- Build the project plan in Smartsheet from the Solutions Architect's scope of work, real dependencies, a defensible critical path, sprint boundaries overlaid on the timeline
- Track scope, hours, and budget in real time. Flag burn-rate risk early and push back on scope creep with numbers, not gut feel
- Maintain a live risk register. Spot risks before they become issues, surface the right ones to the client at the right time, and drive mitigation actively
- Maintain a live RAID log (Risks, Assumptions, Issues, Dependencies) and an action tracker with clear ownership, accountability, and timely closure
- Run crisp daily stand-ups, sprint planning, and retrospectives that produce decisions, not discussions
- Remove sprint blockers personally. Chase the client-side data dependency, escalate the stuck cloud permission, redirect pulled resources don't let "waiting on" sit in a log for days
- Handle sprint-level risks in real time: reprioritize, descope, swap stories, or escalate before commitments slip
- Keep trackers honest. Action items have owners and dates; delays are visible and followed up on time
- Translate technical progress into business language for the customer, and business priorities into clear, estimable requirements for engineers
- Facilitate internal and external architecture reviews across India and three US time zones; document decisions and circulate them the same day
- Produce weekly customer status updates a senior business leader can absorb in 90 seconds — RAG colors backed by evidence, not sentiment
- Own customer escalations and drive them to resolution. Communicate status, risks, and decisions needed — proactively, not reactively
- Onboard engineers on customer systems, scope, process, deliverables, and documentation standards
- Create kick-off presentations, project charters, and tracking mechanisms in collaboration with the customer
- Maintain meeting notes, recorded calls, and a clean project documentation library
- Review and approve timesheets and leaves; keep capacity planning and team calendar management accurate
- Negotiate scope changes with data. Produce formal change requests with impact analysis hours, timeline, trade-offs, options before anyone commits the team to additional work
- Drive sprint predictability with velocity planning and burndown tracking; commitments are realistic and consistently met
- Run backlog refinement with Principal Consultants or Technical Leads so stories are clear, prioritized, and estimable
Skills
- 3+ years of delivery experience on cloud engineering or data engineering projects
- Hands-on fluency with Smartsheet, Jira / Confluence, and Clockify — you can stand up the tooling on day one
- Excellent written and spoken communication, facilitation, negotiation, and coaching skills — you can hold your ground with a skeptical client engineering director and coach a junior engineer in the same afternoon
- Strong prioritization and problem-solving instincts. You make trade-offs explicit rather than quietly absorbing them
- A demonstrable track record of driving outcomes, not just reporting on them
- Demonstrated experience managing at least one fixed-bid project from kickoff through closure, including scope change negotiation with clients
- A strong grasp of Agile delivery metrics — velocity, burndown, sprint predictability — and the ability to use them to drive execution
- Comfort operating in ambiguous, fast-changing environments where requirements evolve; you bring structure proactively
- Experience managing Data Lake projects on AWS
- Professional Scrum Master™ (PSM) certification
- Managing Jira Projects certification
- Smartsheet certification
Benefits
- Remote work arrangement
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