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Senior Delivery Manager Jobs in Canada at Inizio Partners
Title: Senior Delivery Manager
Company: Inizio Partners
Location: Canada
Job Title: Senior Delivery Manager
Mode: Remote (CANADA or US)
Experience- 10+ years
Job Description:
We are seeking a Senior Delivery Manager to lead large-scale Data Management programs for marquee clients in our Sports & Gaming practice. This role combines delivery excellence, stakeholder management, team leadership, and account growth, with a strong emphasis on best practices, innovation, and customer satisfaction.
Must Have
- Experience in domains such as Sports, Media, Entertainment, Gaming, Health, Fitness, or Lifestyle would be ideal
- Strong AWS expertise is required.
- AWS solutions architect professional certification will be huge plus
- Strong data management experience is required
Key Responsibilities:
1. Delivery Leadership
- Own end-to-end delivery of data management engagements, ensuring scope, timelines, quality, and cost targets are met.
- Establish and enforce delivery best practices, governance models, and execution frameworks across programs.
- Manage complex, multi-workstream programs and projects involving data engineering solutions.
- Proactively identify risks, dependencies, and bottlenecks; drive structured problem-solving and mitigation plans.
2. Stakeholder & Client Management
- Act as a trusted advisor to senior client stakeholders, ensuring transparency, alignment, and value realization.
- Lead executive-level reviews, steering committee meetings, and roadmap discussions.
- Balance client expectations with internal capabilities to ensure sustainable delivery.
3. Team Leadership & Talent Development
- Build, manage, and scale large, globally distributed teams across geographies.
- Foster a culture of collaboration, ownership, continuous improvement, and high team satisfaction.
- Mentor delivery managers, tech leads, and high-potential talent; support career growth and succession planning.
4. Analytics, Data & Technology Oversight
- Provide delivery leadership for solutions involving:
- Data Management & Data Engineering
- Data warehousing and modern data stacks
- Demonstrate strong familiarity with:
- AWS Cloud, including AWS Redshift
- SQL and Python (hands-on not mandatory, but must be delivery-fluent)
- Collaborate with architects and engineering leads to ensure scalable, secure, and performant solutions.
5. Account Growth & Organic Business Development
- Drive organic growth within existing accounts by identifying white-space opportunities and unmet client needs.
- Partner with sales and leadership to support account growth targets, proposals, and solution shaping.
- Lead opportunity mining, effort estimation, and delivery approach definition for new initiatives.
- Contribute to long-term account strategy and roadmap planning.
Qualifications:
- 10-12 years of experience in delivery, program, or project management within analytics, data management, or data engineering domains.
- Proven experience managing large, global, cross-functional teams.
- Strong understanding of data management and data engineering ecosystems.
- Strong experience with AWS
- Hands-on familiarity with SQL & Python
- Experience with data clean room solutions, consent platforms, DataOps exposure (data observability, DQ frameworks, lineage, incident management, and SLO/SLA governance), software/application development delivery (frontend, backend, API management, and design/UX collaboration), SDLC practices (CI/CD)
- Outstanding communication and stakeholder management skills, including executive presence.
- Demonstrated success in account mining, organic BD, and supporting revenue growth.
Preferred Skills:
- Ability to balance strategic project management with technical understanding.
- Experience working with Fortune 500 or global enterprise clients.
- Passion for sports, fan engagement, or DTC business models.
Soft Skills:
- Excellent leadership, communication, and stakeholder management abilities.
- Strong problem-solving, analytical thinking, and decision-making skills.
