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Data Project Manager - Adelaide

Capgemini

Capgemini

Operations
Australia
Posted on Feb 17, 2026

Choosing Capgemini means choosing a company where you will be empowered to shape your career in the way you’d like, where you’ll be supported and inspired by a collaborative community of colleagues around the world, and where you’ll be able to reimagine what’s possible. Join us and help the world’s leading organizations unlock the value of technology and build a more sustainable, more inclusive world.

Job Description

Capgemini Global Insights & Data business line is a market leader in Data Engineering, Cloud Data Platforms, Data Science, and AI and Advanced Analytics across all sectors including financial services, public sector, consumer products, telecommunication & energy resources. Our offerings include end-2-end data integration to cloud platforms, complete suite of data engineering capabilities and a category of sector-based advanced analytics and AI driven solutions.

This is a unique opportunity within the Insights & Data (I&D) Global Business Line (GBL) to help grow the data, AI and Data Science engagements across all sectors in Australia and New Zealand. You will help shape and deliver complex projects and programs of work for our clients. You will understand our client’s need to bring maximum value, impact, and innovation to the market as you oversee the delivery of client engagements for data and AI initiatives.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Working closely with key client stakeholders, you'll manage a team to deliver complex data projects on time and on budget with a commercial eye on future opportunities.
  • You will take responsibility for the people, the project delivery and aiming delivery excellence.
  • Clear obstacles and impediments blocking the team and protect the team from external interruptions and distractions.
  • Assist in engaging with the business customers on business processes and practices associated with the IT systems that implement, support or enable those processes and practices.
  • Define project objectives, deliverables, critical success factors, assumptions, global and regional considerations, and resource requirements.
  • Manage the delivery of projects across the full lifecycle, to required cost, timescale and quality parameters
  • Define project prioritization, cost/benefit, potential risks, and feasibility.
  • Ability to work with Business & IT stakeholders through open dialogues that manages their expectations & helps set agreed objectives
  • Should be able to motivate & influence team members for accountability ensuring excellent deliverables.

Required Skills & Qualifications:

  • 10+ years of Project Management experience delivering projects/programmes across one or more capabilities in the Data and Analytics space.
  • Understanding of the software development life cycle processes, experience of working in a large-scale program
  • Have the ability to influence and change if required existing delivery practices to allow efficient business value delivery
  • Have an ability to facilitate alternative solution approaches using a consultative style and obtain agreed consensus across a broad stakeholder group
  • You will have successfully delivered large data implementation projects
  • Managed Customer Data Management/Analytics programs would be advantageous.
  • Market standard project management certifications are a must
  • Prior experience with Energy/Utilities sector clients would be preferred.
  • Agile/Scrum experience is a plus
  • Experience of Project planning, Issue, risk and change management
  • Experience of commercial negotiation for project delivery services
  • Experience of management of delivery to budget, and associated financial reporting / forecasting to ensure you are aware of the financial performance of your projects
  • You will have coached, developed and people managed teams of at least 15 to 20 people
  • Excellent communication skills with proven stakeholder management.
  • Proven capability to contribute to sales activities for securing new projects and work - contributing to proposals, creating priced delivery propositions and presenting these to clients


What You’ll Love About Working Here:

  • Exposure to transformational programs in AI & Data portfolio.
  • Career growth through learning platforms, certifications, and global mobility.
  • Inclusive culture backed by our “Inclusive Future for All” commitment.
  • Competitive total rewards and recognition programs.

Capgemini is an AI-powered global business and technology transformation partner, delivering tangible business value. We imagine the future of organizations and make it real with AI, technology and people. With our strong heritage of nearly 60 years, we are a responsible and diverse group of 420,000 team members in more than 50 countries. We deliver end-to-end services and solutions with our deep industry expertise and strong partner ecosystem, leveraging our capabilities across strategy, technology, design, engineering and business operations. The Group reported 2024 global revenues of €22.1 billion.
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