AI Delivery Lead — Multi‑Team, Remote

EPAM Systems Inc; Chicago (IL); Remote; USD 165,000 - 243,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

HSA

401(k) Retirement Savings Plan

Paid Time Off

Paid Holidays

Employee Stock Purchase Program

Annual bonus

Job summary

EPAM Systems, Inc. is seeking a Delivery Lead to oversee a value stream of 1–3 offshore pods. You will estimate, plan, and track delivery against milestones, manage dependencies, and ensure sustained AI-native, gated development across vendors and teams.

You will report throughput in complexity points and manage cost per unit of work, while driving continuous improvement and aligning with EPAM margins. This remote US role emphasizes client-facing oversight and strong governance.

Qualifications

• Experience leading delivery of multi-team software programs with external vendors.
• Track record of delivering to a plan and to commercial commitments.
• Hands-on with AI coding tools, with first-hand experience of AI-native ways of working in a team.
• Comfortable with data: delivery, cost and productivity metrics.
• Strong communication with senior client stakeholders, and the judgment to raise early.

Responsibilities

• Estimate each approved project with POs, lead developer and architects.
• Turn the estimate into a plan: milestones, sprints, pod capacity and staffing against backlog.
• Map the dependencies with owners and dates across teams and vendors.
• Execute against the plan and re-plan when scope or capacity changes.
• Raise risks and slippage early with causes and decisions needed.
• Report throughput and costs per pod and per ticket on cadence.
• Move pods through AI factory ramp and track AI adoption and productivity.
• Keep savings visible and tie to EPAM margin.

Skills

Delivery leadership

Multi-team delivery

Client-facing

AI tooling

Data metrics

Stakeholder communication

Job description

EPAM Systems, Inc. is seeking a Delivery Lead to oversee a value stream of 1–3 offshore pods. You will estimate, plan, and track delivery against milestones, manage dependencies, and ensure sustained AI-native, gated development across vendors and teams.

You will report throughput in complexity points and manage cost per unit of work, while driving continuous improvement and aligning with EPAM margins. This remote US role emphasizes client-facing oversight and strong governance.