APAC | Project Manager (B2B Contractor)

About the role

As a Project Manager at Infinite Lambda, you'll be a pivotal force behind the successful delivery of large-scale, complex client projects for our most important clients. You will be at the forefront of business transformation, holding ultimate accountability for project execution and owning the entire project lifecycle. You will ensure all projects and workstreams deliver tangible, measurable business value, on time and within budget, helping clients innovate and compete.

You are a key partner in our client relationships, working with our Account Managers to nurture long-term partnerships and spot new opportunities, contributing to the growth of our client accounts. You will use your positive and collaborative attitude to foster a culture of excellence, self-organisation, and high accountability across delivery streams. Your empathy and problem-solving skills will be essential as you guide your team to become more self-organised and accountable, celebrating successes along the way.

• Anticipated start date: ASAP

• Location: APAC

• Contract duration: 3 months with very likely extension for 6+ months

• Daily Requirement: 8 hours per day, Monday to Friday

Responsibilities

• Lead the end-to-end delivery of client projects using Agile or Waterfall methodologies (depending on the best fit with the client), expertly tailoring your approach to the specific needs and phase of each project.

• Develop and maintain clear scope and timelines, ensuring you can protect projects against scope creep and provide alternative solutions to recover as needed.

• Gather, analyse, and document business requirements, working closely with clients and internal teams to translate business needs into clear, actionable specifications, user stories, and acceptance criteria.

• Facilitate stakeholder interviews and discovery sessions to elicit needs and uncover pain points, constraints, and opportunities.

• Develop and execute comprehensive test strategies, including test planning, UAT coordination, and defect triage, ensuring delivered solutions meet agreed acceptance criteria.

• Conduct data analysis and profiling to validate requirements, support migration activities, and inform data model and reporting design.

• Act as the bridge between business stakeholders and technical teams, clarifying scope, managing ambiguity, and communicating trade offs.

• Proactively develop and champion creative, non-standard solutions to execution challenges, ensuring optimal recovery and continuous improvement in delivery standards.

• Establish and uphold stringent project standards and governance models to ensure predictable, high-quality execution across all workstreams.

• Facilitate steering committees and provide clear, trusted updates to executive sponsors.

• Work with teams from both Infinite Lambda and the client to deliver projects, earning their trust and getting 360-degree feedback on feasibility and plans.

• Leverage your technical understanding to constructively challenge assumptions, guide recovery plans, and facilitate trade-off decisions between engineering quality and delivery speed, ensuring alignment with overall project goals.

• Create and maintain essential documentation (such as RAID Logs, RACI matrices, business requirement documents, and Gantt charts) and lead ceremonies like standups, retrospectives, and client presentations.

• Proactively identify risks and remove roadblocks, helping the team find the pathway to excellence that earns the admiration and respect of your clients.

• Track progress and communicate updates to stakeholders regularly through reports and presentations. Conduct project reviews and identify areas for improvement.

• Deliver structured, clear, and professional communication, tailoring your style to best suit each client's environment — this is pivotal to how our clients perceive Infinite Lambda.

• Maintain a safe and congenial working environment for your team.

• Support with client prospects - meetings, follow up and relationship management.

• Liaise with our staffing team to ensure visibility on what will be needed to deliver projects.

• Work with Account Manager(s) to provide constant and stable visibility on accounts.

• Provide active coaching and mentorship to delivery teams, helping them adopt best practices, adhere to project standards, and elevate their own delivery capabilities.

Requirements

Experience:

• 5+ years of experience leading complex client projects, with a focus on data warehouse migration and/or AI.

• Consulting background.

• Proven background in leading and managing projects from start to finish.

• Demonstrated business analysis experience — eliciting requirements, process mapping, and translating business needs into clear technical and functional specifications.

• Extensive experience with agile methodologies and continuous improvement.

• Strong conceptual understanding of software engineering and data delivery principles (e.g., architectural patterns, tools, modern development practices) to effectively challenge, guide, and support technical leadership.

• Excellent leadership, communication, and people skills — able to articulate a compelling vision.

• Experience working with fixed-cost projects as well as T&M.

• Travel requirements for this role are mandated by the need of the client and depending on the client some travel is required.

Skills:

• Proficiency in a variety of project management tools (e.g., Jira, Asana, Trello).

• Strong business analysis toolkit: requirements gathering, process and workflow mapping, user story writing, and stakeholder workshops.

• Exceptional problem-solving, conflict resolution, and change management skills.

• Ability to break down complex projects into manageable tasks and create work breakdown structures.

• Experience in managing multiple projects simultaneously.

• Familiarity and practical experience with modern methodologies and the ability to choose and adapt the most suitable ones for the project.

Mindset:

• Demonstrated ability to orchestrate the big picture while also managing the details.

• A collaborative and positive approach to people and projects.

• Willingness to take new directions and adapt to changing priorities.

Nice to have Skills

• Working knowledge of SQL and data warehousing concepts.

• Familiarity with data visualisation tools (e.g. Omni, Sigma, Tableau, PowerBI).

• Proven experience leading data warehousing and analytics projects, preferably migrations.

Soft skills

• Servant leadership mindset with the ability to manage, motivate, inspire and support others.

• Outstanding communication skills.

• A considerate, curious, positive, naturally collaborative and supportive approach to people.

• Proactivity regarding risk, issues and planning.

• Ability to present complex technical concepts to non-technical audiences.

• Natural problem-solving attitude, facilitation skills, and creative thinking.

• Proficiency in English.

Interview Process

• Intro call with Talent Acquisition Business Partner - 30 minutes

• Domain Specific Session with Programme Manager - 60 minutes

• Cultural interview with Head of Programme Management - 45 minutes.

Why join Infinite Lambda

• We support your growth with dedicated learning time, access to top-notch resources and a knowledge-sharing culture;

• You work autonomously here in a wholesome environment and get as much paid holiday as you need;

• The projects are diverse and give you plenty of opportunity to experiment with new tech;

The benefits are plenty, with private health insurance, work-from-home budget, a company MacBook and more on the list.

▶ ▶ Submit your CV in English in PDF.

▶ ▶ Mind that as we are an international team, internal communication is in English.

Infinite Lambda is an equal opportunity employer. Our inclusive culture celebrates diversity and treats everyone with dignity and respect. Accordingly, our selection process will never discriminate against applicants on the grounds of any characteristics, such as disability, age, gender, sexual orientation, family status, race, faith or other.