Remote Senior Data & AI Delivery Lead

EPAM Systems; Seattle (WA); Remote; USD 150,000 - 205,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

HSA

FSA

Disability insurance

Life insurance

Employee Assistance Program

LinkedIn learning

401(k)

Paid time off

Paid holidays

Legal plan

Pet insurance

Stock purchase program

Bonus program

Long-term incentive program

Job summary

EPAM Systems in Seattle is seeking a Senior Delivery Manager to lead end-to-end delivery of data and AI programs, guiding distributed teams through platform modernization, GenAI initiatives, and production-grade analytics solutions for enterprise clients.

You will own scope, schedule, budget, and governance, partner with solution architects, and mentor delivery leads while expanding engagements and shaping outcomes-based or managed services models across nearshore and offshore teams.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in IT, with 4+ years in delivery management of data or analytics programs with distributed teams
• 3+ years of prior hands-on experience as a Data Engineer, Data Architect, BI/Analytics Engineer, or Data Scientist
• A track record of delivering data platforms to production on at least one major cloud (AWS, Azure, or GCP) and a modern data platform (Databricks, Snowflake, Microsoft Fabric, BigQuery, or similar)
• Delivery experience on at least one AI/ML or GenAI initiative in production
• Hands-on, everyday use of AI tools in your own delivery practice
• Solid understanding of data governance, data quality, and MLOps/LLMOps fundamentals
• Full ownership of project financials: budget, forecasting, margin, and change control
• Strong client-facing, risk management, and executive communication skills at Director/VP level

Responsibilities

• Own scope, schedule, quality, budget, and margin for data engagements, from discovery and estimation through production and hypercare
• Lead delivery of data platform modernization and the AI use cases built on it: RAG and agentic applications, ML models, analytics
• Make sure data is AI-ready by driving data quality, lineage, metadata, access controls, and governance as delivery requirements
• Bring AI-accelerated practices into your teams: AI coding assistants, agent-assisted pipeline and test generation, automated documentation
• Set up human-in-the-loop controls, auditability, and responsible-AI practices appropriate to the client’s regulatory context
• Measure and report the impact: delivery velocity, quality, cost-to-serve, and AI adoption on the engagement
• Lead distributed, cross-functional teams of 15-60+ people across nearshore and offshore locations
• Act as the primary delivery contact for client Directors and VPs: run governance and steering meetings
• Work with solution architects on technical decisions and hold teams to EPAM's engineering-excellence standards
• Support pre-sales by shaping solutions, estimates, SOWs, and delivery approaches for data and AI opportunities
• Find expansion opportunities within your accounts and help move engagements toward outcome-based or managed-service models
• Capture reusable accelerators and delivery patterns and contribute them back to the practice
• Mentor delivery leads and engineers, and grow AI-native delivery capability across the practice

Skills

Delivery management

Data platforms

AI/ML initiatives

Executive communication

Budget management

Data governance

Tools

Databricks

Snowflake

BigQuery

Microsoft Fabric

Job description

EPAM Systems in Seattle is seeking a Senior Delivery Manager to lead end-to-end delivery of data and AI programs, guiding distributed teams through platform modernization, GenAI initiatives, and production-grade analytics solutions for enterprise clients.

You will own scope, schedule, budget, and governance, partner with solution architects, and mentor delivery leads while expanding engagements and shaping outcomes-based or managed services models across nearshore and offshore teams.