AI-Driven Delivery Principal: Strategic Tech Leader

Stride Build; United States; Remote; USD 180,000 - 250,000; Full time

Job summary

Stride Consulting is seeking a Delivery Principal to drive delivery excellence across engagements. This role blends strategic leadership with hands-on technical contribution, serving clients as a trusted advisor and multiplier for Stride’s engineering teams.

You will balance executive-level delivery with direct coding and architecture work, mentoring engineers, shaping delivery practices, and enabling growth while maintaining quality, trust, and execution rigor.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in software delivery or consulting.
• Proven success leading client-facing delivery for complex engagements.
• Experience balancing strategy, people leadership, and hands-on execution.
• Strong consulting mindset with deep technical roots.

Responsibilities

• Act as senior delivery leader and trusted advisor for complex client engagements.
• Own delivery outcomes across active engagements and manage risk.
• Build, lead, and scale high-performing delivery teams.
• Contribute hands-on to code, architecture, and problem solving.
• Apply AI/GenAI capabilities to improve product and delivery outcomes.

Skills

Delivery leadership

Technical credibility

Pre-sales support

Mentoring engineers

Hands-on contribution

Cloud computing

AI/GenAI experience

Agile delivery

Tools

React

TypeScript

REST APIs

Java/Spring

Node

Ruby

AWS

GCP

Azure

Job description

Stride Consulting is seeking a Delivery Principal to drive delivery excellence across engagements. This role blends strategic leadership with hands-on technical contribution, serving clients as a trusted advisor and multiplier for Stride’s engineering teams.

You will balance executive-level delivery with direct coding and architecture work, mentoring engineers, shaping delivery practices, and enabling growth while maintaining quality, trust, and execution rigor.