Senior Data Delivery Manager: Azure, Databricks & Agile

Orion Innovation; Montvale (NJ); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Orion Innovation is seeking an experienced Technical Delivery Manager to lead the end-to-end delivery of data engineering and application development initiatives, working with stakeholders, architects, and engineering teams to ensure predictable, high‑quality outcomes.

The role combines hands-on delivery management with agile practices, sprint planning, and clear status reporting across globally distributed teams to drive on-time releases and value for clients.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or a related field.
• 10+ years of technology delivery experience, with at least 4 years in a technical delivery/PM role.
• Proven ability to lead Agile teams and manage multiple workstreams.
• Strong requirements analysis, backlog management, user-story development, estimation, and sprint execution.
• Excellent verbal and written communication and stakeholder-management skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead day-to-day delivery across data engineering, application development, APIs, analytics, and reporting initiatives.
• Manage Agile ceremonies including sprint planning, daily stand-ups, backlog refinement, sprint reviews, and retrospectives.
• Develop and maintain sprint plans, delivery schedules, dependencies, risks, issues, and resource assignments.
• Track tasks and user stories in Jira with clear ownership, acceptance criteria, estimates, and timely completion.
• Work with customers and business stakeholders to translate requirements into well-defined features and stories.
• Partner with architects and engineering teams to validate approaches, estimates, and implementation plans.
• Monitor delivery progress, identify delays, and drive resolution of blockers.
• Ensure teams meet commitments related to scope, schedule, quality, and performance.
• Provide clear status reporting to customers and internal leadership.
• Coordinate across geographically distributed and cross-functional teams.
• Support release planning, testing, deployment, and production-readiness activities.
• Drive continuous improvement in delivery processes and team productivity.

Skills

Agile delivery

Requirements analysis

Backlog management

User-story development

Sprint execution

Verbal and written communication

Stakeholder engagement

Customer-management

Leadership

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or related field

Tools

Databricks

Microsoft Azure

.NET and C#

Azure Web Apps

REST APIs

Power BI

Jira

Job description

Orion Innovation is seeking an experienced Technical Delivery Manager to lead the end-to-end delivery of data engineering and application development initiatives, working with stakeholders, architects, and engineering teams to ensure predictable, high‑quality outcomes.

The role combines hands-on delivery management with agile practices, sprint planning, and clear status reporting across globally distributed teams to drive on-time releases and value for clients.