Senior Delivery Manager

EPAM Systems, Inc.; United States; Remote; USD 130,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

EPAM Systems, Inc. is seeking a Senior Delivery Manager to own end-to-end delivery health across three pods, partnering with engineering, product, and infrastructure leaders. You will manage risks, drive cadence, and ensure readiness gates to avoid business interruptions.

The role emphasizes onboarding, stakeholder reporting, and continuous improvement through metrics and AI tooling insights. You will coordinate with account leadership and vendor transitions, leveraging AI-assisted tooling to

Qualifications

• 5+ years leading complex, multi-team software delivery engagements.
• Deep expertise in Agile delivery governance and sprint cadence oversight.
• Experience maintaining a risk register across multiple teams.
• Proven ability to report delivery health using DORA metrics and milestones.

Responsibilities

• Own sprint cadence across three delivery pods with consistent planning and reviews.
• Maintain program risk register; escalate blockers and drive to closure.
• Report delivery health using DORA metrics and AI tooling ROI indicators.
• Coordinate vendor onboarding, environment setup, and readiness gates.
• Lead onboarding programs and prepare recurring status updates for senior stakeholders.
• Remove impediments and drive continuous improvement from retrospectives.

Skills

Agile governance

Multi-team leadership

DORA metrics

Stakeholder management

Vendor onboarding

AI tooling awareness

Onboarding sessions

Tools

Claude Code

GitHub Copilot

Amazon Q

Cursor

Job description

We are building strong delivery governance for 19 digital products across three pods, ensuring predictable outcomes, alignment, and transparency. As the Senior Delivery Manager, you will own delivery health end-to-end, partnering with engineering, product, and infrastructure leaders to manage risks and keep cadence on track. Bring your multi-team delivery leadership and help us standardize execution.ResponsibilitiesOwn sprint cadence across three parallel delivery pods and ensure consistent planning, reviews, and retrospectivesMaintain the program risk register, escalate blockers early, and drive items through to closureReport delivery health using DORA metrics along with AI tooling ROI indicatorsManage relationships with engineering, product, infrastructure, and account leadershipPrepare and present recurring status updates, milestone reports, and risk summaries to senior stakeholdersCoordinate contract and tooling approval decisions with account leadershipLead the full team onboarding program, including environment setup, codebase orientation, and ramp-up to full ownershipEnsure readiness gates are met at each stage and prevent any business interruptionFacilitate structured onboarding sessions with client engineering and product stakeholdersEstablish and maintain Agile delivery standards across all podsRemove impediments and enable pod leads to stay focused on technical deliveryDrive continuous improvement based on retrospective outcomes and delivery metric trendsRequirementsProven track record of 5+ years leading complex, multi-team software delivery engagementsDeep expertise in Agile delivery governance, sprint cadence oversight, and maintaining a risk register across multiple concurrent teamsStrong stakeholder management skills across engineering, product, infrastructure, and account leadershipHands-on proficiency reporting delivery health via DORA metrics and milestone/status updatesDemonstrated experience coordinating vendor transitions, including onboarding programs, environment setup, and readiness gate trackingSolid background facilitating onboarding sessions with client engineering and product stakeholdersFamiliarity with AI-assisted development tooling such as Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, Amazon Q, or Cursor, and understanding its impact on velocity and capacity planningWorking understanding of AI productivity metrics, including token usage, acceptance rates, and time-to-merge improvementsCapability to structure delivery governance for AI-augmented engineering teamsWe offerInternational projects with top brandsWork with global teams of highly skilled, diverse peersHealthcare benefitsEmployee financial programsPaid time off and sick leaveUpskilling, reskilling and certification coursesUnlimited access to the LinkedIn Learning library and 22,000+ coursesGlobal career opportunitiesVolunteer and community involvement opportunitiesEPAM Employee GroupsAward-winning culture recognized by Glassdoor, Newsweek and LinkedIn