AI Delivery Lead - Remote Multi-Team Orchestrator

EPAM Systems Inc; Dallas (TX); Remote; USD 165,000 - 243,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental and Vision Insurance (

Health Savings Account

Flexible Spending Accounts (Healthcare

Short-Term and Long-Term Disability

Life and AD&D Insurance

Employee Assistance Program

LinkedIn learning solutions

Matched 401(k) Retirement Savings Plan

Paid Time Off – 15-25 days yearly

Paid Holidays - nine per year

Legal Plan and Identity Theft Protec

Accident Insurance

Employee Discounts

Pet Insurance

Employee Stock Purchase Program

Discretionary annual bonus program

Discretionary Long-Term Incentive (LTI

Job summary

EPAM Systems, Inc. is seeking a Delivery Lead to manage a single value stream across 1–3 offshore pods. The role emphasizes AI-native, spec-driven, gated delivery, with a focus on planning, risk management, and continuous improvement.

Remote work is offered, with a note that is not possible in New York City. The candidate will coordinate estimates, plans, dependencies, and throughput metrics while ensuring alignment with client commitments and EPAM margin.

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 escape early

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 programs

AI coding tools

Data metrics

Stakeholder communication

Vendor management

Tools

AI coding tools

Job description

EPAM Systems, Inc. is seeking a Delivery Lead to manage a single value stream across 1–3 offshore pods. The role emphasizes AI-native, spec-driven, gated delivery, with a focus on planning, risk management, and continuous improvement.

Remote work is offered, with a note that is not possible in New York City. The candidate will coordinate estimates, plans, dependencies, and throughput metrics while ensuring alignment with client commitments and EPAM margin.