Project / Delivery Manager

Duties and Responsibilities

• Plan and manage deployment projects, including project charters, schedules, budgets, resource plans and risk registers.

• Translate statements of work into delivery plans with defined acceptance criteria and milestone schedules.

• Coordinate network, systems and analytics engineers through site surveys, capacity sizing, equipment installation, configuration and cutover.

• Plan maintenance windows and cutovers in live production networks, including rollback procedures.

• Manage integration with customer billing, charging, policy, CRM and security operations systems.

• Conduct factory and site acceptance testing and obtain formal customer sign-off.

• Act as the principal point of contact for customer program offices and technical leadership; chair steering committees and issue regular progress reports.

• Manage subcontractors and equipment suppliers, including delivery schedules, logistics and customs clearance.

• Administer change control and assess the commercial and schedule impact of scope variations.

• Ensure structured handover to support operations, including runbooks, knowledge transfer and customer training.

• Support presales activity with delivery scoping and effort estimation.

Requirements

Education and experience

• Bachelor's degree in telecommunications, computer science, engineering or a related discipline.

• Minimum 5 years' experience in project or delivery management, including at least 3 years delivering technical solutions to telecom operators, government or critical-infrastructure customers.

Technical knowledge

• Sound understanding of IP networking, TCP/IP, encrypted traffic behavior, mobile core (4G/5G) and fixed broadband architectures, DPI and policy control, traffic management and QoS.

• Familiarity with on-premise and private-cloud delivery: Linux, virtualisation, containers, high-availability clustering, and hardware sizing for high-throughput environments.

Professional skills

• Competence in formal project methodologies (PMBOK, PRINCE2) and iterative frameworks (Scrum, Kanban, XP).

• Commercial literacy in statements of work, milestone billing and subcontractor management.

• Strong reporting, negotiation and stakeholder management skills.

Languages

• Fluent English and Azerbaijani. Russian or Turkish an advantage.

Other

• Willingness to travel regularly across the CIS, Middle East and Central Asia, and to work scheduled night or weekend cutover windows.

Desirable

• PMP, PRINCE2 Practitioner or equivalent certification.

• Experience with DPI, policy control, network monitoring, data intelligence or cybersecurity platforms.

• ITIL foundation knowledge and experience in support transition and SLA design.

• Vendor-side or systems-integrator background.