About the Role
NTT DATA's State, Local, and Education Division seeks a Client Delivery Senior Director with deep private cloud delivery leadership, executive client management capability, and a proven record of successfully leading complex IT service delivery programs. This role will provide strategic direction, lead cross-functional delivery teams, and oversee execution for private cloud, infrastructure, and managed services environments supporting public-sector clients.
Responsibilities
- Serve alongside the COO, the overall Account Manager, a Senior Account Director, and the delivery leadership team to establish private cloud delivery strategy, define operational priorities, strengthen client relationships, and identify opportunities to improve service performance, productivity, and delivery efficiency.
- Provide senior executive-level expertise and technical guidance for major private cloud, infrastructure, managed services, and transformation programs.
- Collaborate across cross-functional organizations to align private cloud operations, delivery workstreams, governance practices, and client-facing service improvement initiatives.
- Partner with finance, account, and delivery teams to manage budgets, resource allocations, operational performance, risk mitigation, and customer commitments.
- Direct multiple concurrent solutions.
- Oversee private cloud service operations.
- Ensure alignment with enterprise architecture and lifecycle standards.
- Partner with senior account and customer stakeholders to drive continuous improvement.
- Support employee engagement, resource planning, operational governance, documentation, release management, security and accessibility compliance, and executive-level issue resolution.
Requirements
- Minimum of ten (10) years of overall IT service delivery, infrastructure, application, or private cloud delivery experience, including responsibility for full lifecycle delivery from planning and design through implementation, operations, and continuous improvement.
- Minimum of five (5) years of experience leading, managing, and developing technical, delivery, or operations teams in client-facing environments.
- Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Business, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent combination of education and relevant experience.
- Prior experience with large-scale service delivery management.
- Prior experience with executive level stakeholder management.
- Demonstrated executive presence with the ability to engage senior customer stakeholders, lead delivery governance discussions, and resolve complex service delivery issues.
- Ability to travel periodically to customer or NTT DATA locations to support account governance, delivery reviews, and executive customer meetings.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to translate technical delivery status, risks, and recommendations into executive-ready messages.
Skills
- Private cloud delivery leadership
- Executive client management
- Leading complex IT service delivery programs
- Strategic direction
- Cross-functional team leadership
- Private cloud service operations
- Enterprise architecture alignment
- Lifecycle standards alignment
- Continuous improvement
- Budget management
- Resource allocation
- Operational performance management
- Risk mitigation
- Customer commitment management
- Employee engagement
- Resource planning
- Operational governance
- Documentation
- Release management
- Security compliance
- Accessibility compliance
- Executive-level issue resolution
- Managed infrastructure
- Service-oriented architecture
- Enterprise platform solutions
- In-house, private cloud, public cloud, hybrid infrastructure, vendor, and partner-delivered services management
- Large-scale cloud management platforms
- Private cloud operating models
- Infrastructure modernization
- Managed services delivery
- Service level management
- Incident escalation
- Operational reporting
- Customer satisfaction
- Project management
- ITIL
- Cloud certifications
- Infrastructure certifications
- Security certifications
- Service management certifications
Location
- Austin, Texas (US-TX), United States (US)
Work Type
- Hybrid
- On-call duties as needed
- Travel up to 25%
- Presence in the NTT DATA office two (2) to three (3) days per week
- Onsite participation in customer meetings as needed
Experience Level
- Senior Director
- Minimum of ten (10) years of overall IT service delivery, infrastructure, application, or private cloud delivery experience
- Minimum of five (5) years of experience leading, managing, and developing technical, delivery, or operations teams
Education Level
- Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Business, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent combination of education and relevant experience.
Salary/Compensations
- $164,025 - $273,375
Benefits
- Medical insurance with an employer contribution
- Dental insurance with an employer contribution
- Vision insurance with an employer contribution
- Flexible spending account
- Health savings account
- Life insurance
- AD&D insurance
- Short term disability coverage
- Long term disability coverage
- Paid time off
- Employee assistance program
- 401k program with company match
- Additional voluntary or legally-required benefits
About the Company
- NTT DATA is a $30 billion business and technology services leader, serving 75% of the Fortune Global 100.
- Committed to accelerating client success and positively impacting society through responsible innovation.
- One of the world's leading AI and digital infrastructure providers, with unmatched capabilities in enterprise-scale AI, cloud, security, connectivity, data centers and application services.
- Consulting and Industry solutions help organizations and society move confidently and sustainably into the digital future.
- A Global Top Employer with experts in more than 50 countries.
- Offers clients access to a robust ecosystem of innovation centers as well as established and start-up partners.
- Part of NTT Group, which invests over $3 billion each year in R&D.
- Whenever possible, NTT DATA hires locally to NTT DATA offices or client sites to provide timely and effective support tailored to each client’s needs.
- While many positions offer remote or hybrid work options, these arrangements are subject to change based on client requirements.
- For employees near an NTT DATA office or client site, in-office attendance may be required for meetings or events, depending on business needs.
- NTT DATA is committed to staying flexible and meeting the evolving needs of both our clients and employees.
Equal Opportunity
- NTT DATA is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status.
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