Delivery Principal — AI‑Driven Tech Delivery Leader

Stride; United States; On-site; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Stride Consulting is hiring a Delivery Principal to lead large-scale engagements, ensuring delivery excellence and technical credibility across client projects. The role blends strategic leadership with hands-on technical contributions, serving as a trusted advisor to clients and a multiplier for Stride’s engineering teams.

You will balance executive leadership with direct coding and architectural input, partnering with clients to develop outcomes that align with business goals.

Qualifications

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

Responsibilities

• Act as a senior delivery leader and trusted advisor for complex client engagements.
• Build credibility quickly with executive and technical stakeholders.
• Communicate technical concepts in clear, business-aligned language.
• Support new business development by contributing delivery leadership during pre-sales and early engagements.
• Research client domains to rapidly become a subject-matter expert.
• Own delivery outcomes across active engagements.
• Assess project health and identify delivery risk.
• Step into challenged engagements to diagnose issues and drive recovery.
• Ensure teams are staffed appropriately and operating effectively.
• Establish delivery practices that promote predictability, transparency, and quality.
• Build, launch, and lead high-performing delivery teams.
• Mentor engineers and delivery leaders to raise standards.
• Invest ~60% of time in strategic enablement, coaching, and team development.
• Maintain hands-on technical contribution when required (≈40%).
• Demonstrate cloud and database fundamentals with non-functional requirements in mind.
• Apply AI/GenAI capabilities to improve product functionality and developer productivity.

Skills

Front-end: React

TypeScript

REST APIs

Microservices

Java/Spring

Node.js

Ruby

Cloud: AWS

Cloud: GCP

Cloud: Azure

AI/GenAI tools

TDD

CI/CD

Tools

React

TypeScript

Java/Spring

Node.js

Ruby

AWS

GCP

Azure

Job description

Stride Consulting is hiring a Delivery Principal to lead large-scale engagements, ensuring delivery excellence and technical credibility across client projects. The role blends strategic leadership with hands-on technical contributions, serving as a trusted advisor to clients and a multiplier for Stride’s engineering teams.

You will balance executive leadership with direct coding and architectural input, partnering with clients to develop outcomes that align with business goals.