AI Delivery Lead — Remote & Multi-Pod Programs

EPAM Systems Inc; Seattle (WA); Remote; USD 165,000 - 243,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental, Vision Insurance (Sub

Health Savings Account

Flexible Spending Accounts (Healthcare

Short-Term and Long-Term Disability

Life and AD&D Insurance

Employee Assistance Program

LinkedIn learning solutions

401(k) Matching

Paid Time Off 15-25 days

Paid Holidays 9 days

Legal Plan and Identity Theft

Pet Insurance

Employee Stock Purchase Program

Annual Bonus Program

Long-Term Incentive Program

Job summary

EPAM Systems, Inc. seeks a Delivery Lead to oversee a value stream of 1-3 offshore pods delivering AI-native, spec-driven work. You will estimate projects with POs and architects, convert estimates to plans, map dependencies, and drive progress across teams and vendors.

You will track throughput, manage risks, and move pods from time-and-material to committed output while optimizing AI cost and productivity. Previous leadership in client-facing roles and familiarity with AI tools are essential.

Qualifications

• Experience leading delivery of multi-team software programs with external vendors, in a client-facing role.
• 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.
• Insurance or financial services background is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Estimate each approved project together with the POs, the lead developer and the architects.
• Turn the estimate into a plan: milestones, sprints, pod capacity and staffing against the backlog having in mind capacity measured in AI Complexity Points.
• Map the dependencies up front, across teams, across value streams and across vendors (including other vendors), with an owner and a date on each.
• Execute against the plan. Track progress and throughput, and re-plan when scope, capacity or a dependency moves.
• Raise risks and slippage early, with the cause and the decision needed.
• Report throughput in complexity points, cycle time, defect escape and rework rate on the account cadence.
• Own the stream's part of the complexity-point baseline, and move pods from T&M to committed output.
• Move each pod through the AI factory ramp when the team is new
• Track AI adoption and productivity per pod and per person
• Track AI cost per pod, per person and per ticket, next to the cost of the pod itself
• Run a continuous improvement program for the stream. Find where work is slow or expensive: rework, review queues, waiting on dependencies, model and prompt choices, runs that cost more than the ticket is worth
• Set targets for cost per complexity point and cost per unit of work, and bring them down over time
• Pass the factory improvements on to the pods and measure the effect
• Keep the savings visible and tie them to EPAM margin on the output-based model

Skills

Delivery leadership

Multi-team delivery

AI tooling

Stakeholder comms

Vendor management

Job description

EPAM Systems, Inc. seeks a Delivery Lead to oversee a value stream of 1-3 offshore pods delivering AI-native, spec-driven work. You will estimate projects with POs and architects, convert estimates to plans, map dependencies, and drive progress across teams and vendors.

You will track throughput, manage risks, and move pods from time-and-material to committed output while optimizing AI cost and productivity. Previous leadership in client-facing roles and familiarity with AI tools are essential.