Senior Delivery Manager

EPAM Systems; Katowice; Hybrid; PLN 240,000 - 360,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid by design

Remote work within Poland

Relocation opportunities

Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Health insurance

English language programs

Job summary

EPAM Systems seeks a Senior Delivery Manager to own engagements from opportunity through successful delivery, ensuring value realization for Insurance sector clients. You will lead cross-functional teams, manage senior client and IT stakeholders, and drive governance and strategy across multiple projects.

The role emphasizes risk management, strategic communication, and hands-on delivery leadership with a global AI-focused delivery mindset. Hybrid work with Poland-based remote options is offered.

Qualifications

• Minimum 8 years in IT services, consulting or digital delivery environments.
• Experience leading client engagements, delivery management, or pre-sales at scale.
• Proven ability to manage complex, multi-stream delivery and governance.
• Strong understanding of SOWs, commercials and delivery models.
• Excellent English communication and senior stakeholder management.

Responsibilities

• Act as primary engagement owner from qualification through delivery execution.
• Establish trusted relationships with client sponsors, business owners and IT leadership.
• Own client communication cadence, escalation management and expectation setting.
• Drive value realization by aligning outcomes with client objectives and measurable benchmarks.
• Partner with Sales and Solution Architects to shape engagement model and delivery approach.
• Oversee delivery governance, milestones and quality standards across engagements.
• Proactively manage risks, dependencies and scope evolution, including AI adoption in delivery.

Skills

Engagement leadership

Delivery management

Pre-sales / account management

Program management

Stakeholder management

Insurance domain knowledge

Job description

Join our team as a Senior Delivery Manager and play a key role as Engagement Lead, owning client relationships from initial engagement through successful delivery and value realization. Act as the single orchestration point between Sales, Client Partners, Delivery, Solutions and client stakeholders to ensure commercial commitments are translated into high-quality execution and long-term partnership. We are particularly looking for candidates with hands-on experience in the Insurance industry, who understand the business, regulatory and technical landscape of this domain and can apply that knowledge from day one.

Responsibilities

• Act as primary engagement owner from opportunity qualification through delivery execution and stabilization
• Establish trusted relationships with client sponsors, business owners and IT leadership
• Own client communication cadence, escalation management and expectation setting
• Drive value realization by ensuring that outcomes align with client business objectives and are demonstrably tracked against agreed benchmarks
• Partner with Sales, Client Partners and Solution Architects during pre-sales to shape engagement model, delivery approach and validate solution feasibility from a technical and commercial perspective
• Own deal-to-delivery transition, including handover, scope clarification and governance setup
• Ensure SOWs, commercials and delivery plans are aligned and executable
• Align Delivery Managers, Program Managers and Tech Leads around objectives, milestones and quality standards, with ability to engage on technical and architectural decisions where needed
• Ensure delivery governance is in place, including evidence-based cadence, measurable KPIs and escalation paths
• Proactively manage risks, dependencies and scope evolution, including driving AI adoption in delivery teams to improve SDLC efficiency
• Oversee architecture governance across engagements, ensuring proposed solutions are reviewed, aligned with client constraints and meet required quality standards
• Ensure delivery practices align with insurance industry regulatory and compliance obligations, including awareness of audit trails, data handling requirements and change control processes relevant to regulated environments
• Manage delivery across core insurance domains such as policy administration, claims, underwriting or distribution platforms, ensuring business context is maintained throughout the engagement

Requirements

• Minimum 8 years in IT services, consulting or digital delivery environments
• Proven experience in at least two of the following: client engagement leadership, delivery management, pre-sales or account management
• Experience managing complex, multi-stream delivery
• Strong understanding of SOWs, commercials and delivery models
• Client leadership and stakeholder management skills, including senior client and IT stakeholders
• Engagement governance and delivery orchestration experience
• Commercial acumen in scope, margin and change management
• Structured communication and escalation management skills
• Systems thinking with ability to connect sales, delivery and operations
• Working knowledge of solution architecture fundamentals sufficient to engage credibly with architects and clients on proposed designs
• Familiarity with software engineering best practices across the SDLC (code quality, CI/CD, testing, common tooling) and with architecture governance processes
• Basic awareness of security and compliance standards relevant to IT delivery (e.g. data privacy, ISO/ITIL-aligned practices)
• Practical experience with AI in delivery — either delivering AI-based solutions or driving AI adoption in SDLC on a strategic and hands-on level
• Experience delivering solutions in the insurance sector, covering at least one of: policy lifecycle, claims management, underwriting or distribution channels
• Familiarity with insurance-specific regulatory frameworks such as Solvency II, GDPR in financial services context, or local insurance authority requirements depending on market
• Understanding of insurance data models and integration patterns, including exposure to legacy core systems (mainframe or monolithic policy/claims platforms) common in the industry
• Excellent command of written and spoken English (B2+ level)

We offer

• We gather like-minded people:
  • Top tech minds driving innovation in AI, cloud and digital platform modernization
  • Supportive team and agile, startup-like culture
  • Hybrid by design mode and opportunity to work remotely within Poland
  • Chance to work abroad for up to 60 days annually
  • Business-driven relocation opportunities
• We provide growth opportunities:
  • Career development programs
  • Thought leadership, mentoring, soft skills and well-being programs
  • Certification (Anthropic, Gemini, GCP, Azure, AWS)
  • English classes
• We cover it all:
  • Stable pay
  • Participation in the Employee Stock Purchase Plan with a 15% discount
  • Benefits package (health insurance, multisport, shopping vouchers)
  • Referral bonuses up to $2,000
  • Offices featuring entertainment and relaxation zones, table tennis and football, free snacks, coffee and more
  • Corporate, social and well-being events
• Please, note:
  • Benefits listed above are available to employees only
  • We are open for working with Contractors. Terms of B2B cooperation agreements are agreed individually
  • We will reach out to selected candidates exclusively

EPAM is global leader in AI transformation engineering and integrated consulting, serving Forbes Global 2000 companies and ambitious startups. With over thirty years of expertise in custom software, product and platform engineering, we empower our clients to become AI-Native enterprises, driving measurable value from innovation and digital investments.