Senior Technical Delivery Lead AI Platform

EY; Sacramento (CA); On-site; USD 144,000 - 329,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical and dental coverage

401(k) / Pension plans

Flexible vacation policy

Paid time off options

Job summary

EY is seeking a seasoned Technical Delivery Manager to drive day-to-day execution across multiple engineering programs for Agentic AI platform. You will manage delivery cadence, ensure on-time commitments, and challenge estimates with technical judgment.

The role favors engineers who have built real systems, can interrogate dependencies, and lead cross-functional teams toward measurable capability shipped on schedule.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related technical field.
• 7+ years in technical delivery, engineering project or program management with delivery outcomes.
• Hands-on software or platform engineering background.
• Ability to evaluate estimates, decomposition, and technical risk with evidence.
• Experience running Scrum or Kanban for multi-team engineering programs.

Responsibilities

• Own delivery cadence: run daily stand-ups, sprint planning, backlog refinement, reviews and retrospectives.
• Track in-flight work, surface slippage, and unblock blocked items promptly.
• Ensure explicit definitions of done and dated commitments are followed.
• Interrogate estimates, test sizing, and challenge padding with evidence.
• Break down work into properly sized stories with clear acceptance criteria.
• Plan sprint and release across phased platform build and defend gates.
• Coordinate cross-discipline dependencies across platform, infra, data, and security.
• Manage delivery risk, dependencies, and critical path with transparent trade-offs.
• Report delivery status with velocity, throughput, cycle time, and defects.
• Protect team focus from interruptions and competing stakeholder demands.
• Partner with engineering leads and architects on sequencing and technical direction.

Skills

Agile delivery

Scrum & Kanban

Executive communication

Technical depth

Risk & dependency management

Cross-team collaboration

CI/CD tooling

Education

Bachelor's or Master in CS/Engineering

Tools

Jira

Git workflows

Kubernetes

CI/CD pipelines

Job description

EY is seeking a seasoned Technical Delivery Manager to drive day-to-day execution across multiple engineering programs for Agentic AI platform. You will manage delivery cadence, ensure on-time commitments, and challenge estimates with technical judgment.

The role favors engineers who have built real systems, can interrogate dependencies, and lead cross-functional teams toward measurable capability shipped on schedule.