Senior Manager- Technical Delivery

Huron Consulting Group Inc.; India; On-site; INR 3,800,000 - 7,000,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Paid time off

Employee stock purchase plan

Job summary

Huron Consulting Group Inc. is seeking a senior, technically grounded Project Manager to lead the execution of complex Digital and AI solutions in its AI practice in India.

You will own technical delivery across multiple AI workstreams, collaborating with Architects and AI Engineers to turn designs into buildable plans and drive sprints, testing, and production release. You will coach delivery leads, raise maturity, manage risks, and ensure engineering standards while engaging with client teams

Qualifications

• 10+ years managing technical delivery of software or AI/ML projects in a consulting or client-delivery setting.
• Hands-on technical background with ability to read architecture diagrams and test estimates.
• Experience running multiple agile pods or workstreams on a single program.
• Strong agile delivery, backlog management, release coordination, and dependency management.
• Familiarity with cloud platforms (AWS/Azure/Google Cloud/OCI) and enterprise data landscapes.

Responsibilities

• Own technical delivery execution across AI workstreams and pods, including release plan and sprint cadence.
• Translate architecture into a sequenced build plan and manage the technical backlog.
• Lead agile ceremonies and resolve cross‑pod dependencies.
• Manage environments, data access, API readiness, and infrastructure prerequisites.
• Ensure engineering standards: Git workflows, CI/CD, test automation, observability, and technical debt reduction.
• Oversee AI-specific quality gates: data readiness and model evaluation with HRL.
• Drive non-functional requirements: performance, security, privacy, and cost to serve.
• Lead release readiness: cutover planning, UAT, deployment runbooks, and handover.

Skills

Delivery leadership

Agile/Scrum

AI/ML delivery

Stakeholder management

Technical literacy

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering or Computer Science

PMP/SAFe/Agile certification

Tools

Git

CI/CD

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

Huron is a global consultancy that collaborates with clients to drive strategic growth, ignite innovation and navigate constant change. Through a combination of strategy, expertise and creativity, we help clients accelerate operational, digital and cultural transformation, enabling the change they need to own their future. Join our team as the expert you are now and create your future. We are looking for a senior, technically grounded Project Manager to lead the execution of complex Digital and AI solutions within our AI practice. You will own technical delivery across multiple workstreams and pods that bring AI-powered solutions to life for clients in industries such as higher education, healthcare, and utilities. This is a hands‑on delivery leadership role. You will work side by side with Solution Architects and AI Engineers to turn an architecture into a sequenced, buildable plan — then drive it through sprints, integration, testing, and production release. You are expected to be technical enough to read the design, question an estimate, manage risk, communicate dependencies, and hold the team to engineering standards. You will also raise delivery maturity across the practice: coaching project managers and scrum leads, and strengthening the estimation models, engineering checklists, and delivery metrics we reuse across engagements. If you enjoy staying close to the build while leading at scale, and thrive in fast‑moving, client‑facing environments, this role is for you.

Key Responsibilities

• Own technical delivery execution across multiple AI workstreams and pods — release plan, sprint cadence, technical milestones, and definition of done.
• Partner with Solution Architects to translate architecture and design into a sequenced build plan; decompose epics into deliverable increments and own the health of the technical backlog.
• Run agile delivery at scale: sprint planning, backlog refinement, demos, and retrospectives across pods, with active resolution of cross‑pod dependencies.
• Manage technical dependencies end to end — environments, data access and readiness, API and integration availability, infrastructure provisioning, and client IT or third‑party prerequisites.
• Hold teams to engineering standards: branching and version control, code review, CI/CD, test automation, observability, documentation, and deliberate management of technical debt.
• Own AI‑specific quality gates — dataset readiness, prompt and model evaluation harnesses, accuracy and hallucination thresholds, human‑in‑the‑loop review, and regression testing ahead of each release.
• Drive non‑functional requirements into the backlog early rather than at the end: performance, cost‑to‑serve, scalability, security, data privacy, and responsible AI review.
• Lead release and production readiness — cutover planning, UAT, deployment runbooks, hyper‑care, and handover to support or managed service.
• Track and report technical progress, burn, risks, and blockers to client stakeholders and Huron leadership with an honest, evidence‑based view; elevate early and constructively.
• Coach technical project managers, scrum leads, and analysts; raise delivery discipline and consistency across the pods you oversee.
• Build and maintain reusable delivery assets: templates, estimation models, engineering checklists, and delivery metrics for the practice.

Preferred Qualifications

• 10+ years managing technical delivery of software or AI/ML projects, including 4+ years in a consulting, professional services, or client delivery setting.
• A hands‑on technical background — engineering, data, or architecture — prior to moving into delivery management; able to read an architecture diagram, review a data model or API contract, and pressure‑test an estimate.
• Demonstrated experience running multiple concurrent agile pods or workstreams on a single program.
• Strong command of agile delivery, backlog management, release coordination, and dependency management.
• Practical understanding of AI and GenAI solution development lifecycles — data pipelines, RAG and agentic patterns, prompt and model evaluation, MLOps/LLMOps, and production deployment.
• Working knowledge of modern engineering practice: Git‑based workflows, CI/CD, containers, test automation, and observability.
• Familiarity with major cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, or OCI) and enterprise data and integration landscapes.
• Comfortable holding architecture, security, and data privacy review conversations with client IT teams.
• Ability to communicate credibly with both technical teams and executive business audiences, and to hold a clear point of view under pressure.
• Experience in healthcare domain is a plus.
• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field; advanced degree and PMP, SAFe, or Agile certification are a plus.

Position Level Senior Manager Country India

At Huron, we’re redefining what a consulting organization can be. We go beyond advice to deliver results that last. We inherit our client’s challenges as if they were our own. We help them transform for the future. We advocate. We make a difference. And we intelligently, passionately, relentlessly do great work…together. Are you the kind of person who stands ready to jump in, roll up your sleeves and transform ideas into action? Then come discover Huron. Whether you have years of experience or come right out of college, we invite you to explore our many opportunities. Learn about how our culture and values provide you with the kind of environment that invites new ideas and innovation. Come see how we collaborate with each other in a culture of learning, coaching, diversity and inclusion. And hear about our unwavering commitment to make a difference in partnership with our clients, shareholders, communities and colleagues.

Huron Consulting Group offers a competitive compensation and benefits package including medical, dental, and vision coverage to employees and dependents; a 401(k) plan with a generous employer match; an employee stock purchase plan; a generous Paid Time Off policy; and paid parental leave and adoption assistance.

• medical, dental, and vision coverage to employees and dependents
• a 401(k) plan with a generous employer match
• an employee stock purchase plan
• a generous Paid Time Off policy
• paid parental leave and adoption assistance

Our Wellness Program supports employee total well-being by providing free annual health screenings and coaching, bank at work, and on‑site workshops, as well as ongoing programs recognizing major events in the lives of our employees throughout the year.

All benefits and programs are subject to applicable eligibility requirements.

Huron is fully committed to providing equal employment opportunity to job applicants and employees in recruitment, hiring, employment, compensation, benefits, promotions, transfers, training, and all other terms and conditions of employment. Huron will not discriminate on the basis of age, race, color, gender, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, pregnancy, national origin, religion, veteran status, physical or mental disability, genetic information, creed, citizenship or any other status protected by laws or regulations in the locations where we do business. We endeavor to maintain a drug‑free workplace.