AI Platform Delivery Lead

EY; McLean (VA); On-site; USD 144,000 - 329,000; Full time

Job summary

EY is seeking a seasoned Technical Delivery Manager to drive day-to-day execution of engineering teams building EY’s Agentic AI platform. You’ll own delivery cadence, interrogate estimates, and ensure commitments are met while maintaining trusted partnerships with senior engineers.

Ideal candidates have strong cloud-native experience (Kubernetes, CI/CD, IaC), hands-on delivery background, and a track record of delivering multi-team programs with clear acceptance criteria.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field, or demonstrably equivalent depth.
• 7+ years in technical delivery, engineering project or program management, or Scrum Master roles supporting software engineering teams.
• Hands-on software engineering background or equivalent technical depth.
• Ability to evaluate engineering estimates, work decomposition, and technical risk with evidence.
• Proven track record running Scrum or Kanban for teams of experienced engineers.
• Experience delivering complex, multi-team technical programs with cross-team dependencies.
• Experience with cloud-native engineering: Kubernetes, CI/CD, infrastructure-as-code, distributed systems, API design.
• Experience with Jira or equivalent and Git-based workflows.
• Evidence of holding delivery timelines and quality standards while keeping trust.
• Ability to communicate status, risk, and trade-offs to senior stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Own the delivery cadence: run daily stand-ups, sprint planning, backlog refinement, sprint reviews, and retrospectives.
• Track in-flight items to completion and surface slippage as it happens.
• Ensure accountability to defined done criteria and dated commitments.
• Interrogate estimates, test sizing, decomposition, and risk.
• Break down architecture and platform requirements into sized, shippable stories.
• Own sprint and release planning across phased platform build.
• Manage cross-discipline dependencies between platform, infrastructure, data, security, and delivery cells.
• Maintain live view of risks and critical path, drive mitigation to closure.
• Report delivery status with evidence and avoid softening bad news.
• Protect team focus from interruptions and competing stakeholder demands.
• Collaborate with engineering leads and architects on sequencing and technical direction.

Skills

Technical delivery

Scrum/Kanban leadership

Cross-team coordination

Cloud-native

Kubernetes

CI/CD

IaC

Estimation critique

Jira workflows

Executive communication

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s in CS/Engineering

Tools

Jira

Git workflows

Job description

EY is seeking a seasoned Technical Delivery Manager to drive day-to-day execution of engineering teams building EY’s Agentic AI platform. You’ll own delivery cadence, interrogate estimates, and ensure commitments are met while maintaining trusted partnerships with senior engineers.

Ideal candidates have strong cloud-native experience (Kubernetes, CI/CD, IaC), hands-on delivery background, and a track record of delivering multi-team programs with clear acceptance criteria.