Senior Technical Delivery Lead - Data & Applications

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

Job summary

Orion Innovation seeks an experienced Technical Delivery Manager to lead end-to-end data engineering and application development initiatives. You will guide daily sprint activities, collaborate with stakeholders, architects, and product owners to ensure high-quality delivery.

The role requires hands-on management of sprint plans, risk mitigation, and cross-functional coordination across distributed teams, with emphasis on Agile execution and customer engagement.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology or a related field.
• 10+ years of technology delivery experience; at least 4 years in a technical delivery or program management role.
• Proven leadership of Agile teams and multiple concurrent workstreams.
• Strong requirements analysis, backlog management, user-story development, estimation, and sprint execution.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Strong customer-management and stakeholder-engagement capabilities.
• Proven ability to manage priorities, dependencies, risks, and escalations in a fast-paced environment.
• Experience working with globally distributed teams.

Responsibilities

• Lead day-to-day delivery across data engineering, application development, APIs, analytics, and reporting initiatives.
• Manage Agile ceremonies: sprint planning, daily stand-ups, backlog refinement, sprint reviews, 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 user stories.
• Partner with architects and engineering teams to validate solution approaches, estimates and implementation plans.
• Monitor delivery progress, identify delays, and drive timely resolution of blockers.
• Ensure teams meet commitments related to scope, schedule, quality, and performance.
• Provide clear status reports to customer and leadership, coordinating across distributed teams.
• Support release planning, testing, deployment, and production-readiness activities.
• Drive continuous improvement in delivery processes and engineering practices.

Skills

Databricks

Microsoft Azure

DotNet C#

Azure Web Apps

REST APIs

Power BI

Jira

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology

Job description

Orion Innovation seeks an experienced Technical Delivery Manager to lead end-to-end data engineering and application development initiatives. You will guide daily sprint activities, collaborate with stakeholders, architects, and product owners to ensure high-quality delivery.

The role requires hands-on management of sprint plans, risk mitigation, and cross-functional coordination across distributed teams, with emphasis on Agile execution and customer engagement.