Remote AI Delivery Lead — Multi-Pod Programs

EPAM Systems Inc; Austin (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

401(k) Retirement Savings Plan

Paid Time Off

Paid Holidays

Legal Plan and Identity Theft

Accident Insurance

Employee Discounts

Pet Insurance

Employee Stock Purchase Program

Discretionary annual bonus program

Discretionary Long-Term Incentive (LTI

Job summary

EPAM Systems, Inc. in Austin, TX seeks a Delivery Lead to own one value stream composed of 1-3 offshore pods. You will plan, track and optimize delivery, manage dependencies, and drive AI-native software programs for client engagements.

You will estimate, schedule, monitor throughput and cost, raise risks early, and report metrics like complexity points and cycle time. This role requires strong senior stakeholder communication and experience delivering multi-team software programs with external

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.

Responsibilities

• Estimate each approved project with POs, lead developers and architects.
• Turn the estimate into a plan: milestones, sprints, pod capacity and staffing against backlog.
• Map dependencies across teams, value streams and vendors with assigned owners and dates.
• Execute against the plan; track progress and re-plan as scope/capacity changes.
• Raise risks and slippage early with causes and required decisions.
• Report throughput in complexity points, cycle time, defect escape and rework rate.
• Own stream's part of complexity-point baseline and move pods to committed output.
• Move pods through AI factory ramp when team is new.
• Track AI adoption and productivity per pod and per person.
• Track AI cost per pod, per person and per ticket; tie to pod cost.
• Run continuous improvement to reduce costly bottlenecks.

Job description

EPAM Systems, Inc. in Austin, TX seeks a Delivery Lead to own one value stream composed of 1-3 offshore pods. You will plan, track and optimize delivery, manage dependencies, and drive AI-native software programs for client engagements.

You will estimate, schedule, monitor throughput and cost, raise risks early, and report metrics like complexity points and cycle time. This role requires strong senior stakeholder communication and experience delivering multi-team software programs with external