Senior Energy AI Strategy & Delivery Lead

EPAM Systems Inc; Houston (TX); On-site; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

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Job summary

EPAM Systems Inc. in Houston, TX seeks a Senior AI Delivery Lead to define AI/GenAI strategies and oversee end-to-end AI product delivery for Energy clients. You will partner with business and technical stakeholders, lead workshops, and drive growth through scalable AI solutions.

The role requires leadership in multidisciplinary teams, hands-on delivery of AI programs, and the creation of reusable assets and best practices within EPAM’s Energy AI practice.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of Data Science, ML Engineering or AI delivery experience, including 5+ years in leadership or client-facing delivery roles.
• Strong Oil & Gas or Energy domain expertise in at least one area: Upstream, Midstream or Downstream.
• Experience leading enterprise AI/ML programs and working directly with client executives, operational leaders and technical teams.
• Hands-on expertise in areas such as time-series analytics, predictive maintenance, computer vision, NLP/LLMs, recommender systems or agentic AI.

Responsibilities

• Partner with Energy clients and EPAM teams to define AI/ML, GenAI and agentic AI strategies, roadmaps and business cases
• Lead client workshops, discovery sessions and solution-design engagements with business and technical stakeholders
• Own end-to-end delivery of AI products, from ideation and requirements through production deployment, adoption and growth
• Lead multidisciplinary teams across data science, engineering, cloud, product and Energy domain SMEs
• Develop proposals, solution architectures and go-to-market offerings for EPAM’s Energy AI practice
• Build team capability through mentoring, hiring and advancing AI delivery standards, reusable assets and best practices

Skills

AI leadership

Client-facing

Data Science

ML Engineering

Python

LLMOps

Tools

Databricks

Snowflake

LangChain

Semantic Kernel

Job description

EPAM Systems Inc. in Houston, TX seeks a Senior AI Delivery Lead to define AI/GenAI strategies and oversee end-to-end AI product delivery for Energy clients. You will partner with business and technical stakeholders, lead workshops, and drive growth through scalable AI solutions.

The role requires leadership in multidisciplinary teams, hands-on delivery of AI programs, and the creation of reusable assets and best practices within EPAM’s Energy AI practice.