AI Engineering Manager Delivery Lead Remote

What you'll work on

• Own end‑to‑end delivery execution for Agentic AI solutions from Proof of Concept through Production, ensuring predictable, high‑quality outcomes.
• Translate product scope and architectural direction into clear delivery plans, sprint cadence, and execution milestones.
• Drive day‑to‑day engineering delivery, including dependency management, issue resolution, and removal of execution blockers.
• Ensure delivery readiness across environments, CI/CD, quality gates, validation, and release governance.
• Coordinate and orchestrate internal teams and vendors to deliver as a single, integrated delivery unit.
• Partner closely with Product, Architecture, QA, Validation, and Program Management to ensure delivery aligns with regulatory, quality, and governance expectations
• Provide transparent delivery reporting, proactively surface risks, and escalate issues with clear options and trade‑offs.
• Support release and rollout execution (pilot to scale) and ensure effective handover to operations.
• Lead and mentor a multidisciplinary engineering team (AI engineers, data engineers, platform engineers), providing technical guidance, career development, and performance management.
• Act as delivery owner for vendor‑contributed work, including: 1)Task integration, 2) Quality expectations, 3)Delivery timelines
• Ensure vendor outputs meet IQVIA standards and are integrated seamlessly into CI/CD and release processes.
• Surface delivery risks related to vendor dependency early and clearly.

*Key Qualifications

Experience**

• 7+ years in engineering delivery roles, with demonstrated ownership of end‑to‑end delivery in complex systems.
• Proven experience delivering Agentic AI, AI‑enabled, or data‑intensive platforms, including systems that incorporate reasoning, orchestration, retrieval, or automation components.
• Experience delivering AI solutions in regulated or highly governed enterprise environments, with accountability for production readiness, auditability, and lifecycle controls.
• Demonstrated ability to coordinate cross‑functional teams and external vendors delivering agent‑based solutions across prototype, MVP, and production stages.