Sr Manager, Lead Delivery Leader
Overview
What You Will Own
- Portfolio-level delivery coordination: Orchestrate execution across multiple product teams, service lines, and enterprise functions. Hold the cross-team view that no single product team can hold for itself.
- Stakeholder orchestration: Hold the relationship with internal Deloitte stakeholders at the program level, service line leaders, function heads, platform owners and reconcile the cross-stakeholder inconsistencies that show up at scale.
- Delivery operating model: Own how Delivery work is governed in your portfolio. Define the templates, intake patterns, evidence gates, and exception paths that allow AI-assisted execution to scale without losing accountability.
- AI-augmented delivery practice: Direct AI agents and assistants in delivery workflows - what they coordinate, what evaluation criteria apply, and where exceptions route to humans.
- Own end-to-end LLM, agentic AI, and cloud consumption costs-governing model selection, orchestration, token usage, and infrastructure efficiency through FinOps practices.
- Drive Applied AI delivery budget planning, forecasting, and tracking aligned to ROI targets, enforcing financial governance and surfacing cost-saving opportunities within defined guardrails.
- Capability stewardship: Coach Delivery Managers in your portfolio. Develop the senior coordination talent the organization needs.
Core Responsibilities
Strategic Vision and Alignment
Evangelism
Craft Mastery and Objectives Realization
Capability Evolution and Development
Operational Excellence
Customer-Centric Problem Solving
Expert Proficiency and Continuous Improvement
Communication
Delivery Risk Management
Organizational Engagement and Collaboration
The Team
Required
- Experience: 15+ years of progressive delivery leadership experience in product engineering, enterprise technology, or management consulting environments.
- Demonstrated track record leading large, cross-functional programs - defined as programs with multiple product teams, multiple stakeholders, and meaningful cross-function dependencies.
- Direct experience with both Agile/Lean operating models and the emerging intent-driven, evidence-gated delivery patterns.
- Experience working in a product-staffed model where durable product teams stay with their products across build, deploy, operate, and evolve.
- Strong expertise in AI/Cloud FinOps, budget management, financial forecasting, vendor management, cost optimization, and data-driven delivery governance.
- Prior experience coaching Delivery Managers or Program Managers.
- Ability to travel 10%, on average, based on the work you do and the clients and industries/sectors you serve.
- Limited immigration sponsorship may be available.
- Candidates must be located within a commutable distance to one of the select locations available for this role
- Ability to work in your local office at a minimum of 3 days per week
Required Skills
- Engineering fluency: Comfortable in technical conversations with architects and senior engineers; able to challenge feasibility claims and reason about trade-offs without needing translation.
- Stakeholder orchestration at scale: Track record of holding alignment across senior internal stakeholders with competing priorities.
- Evidence orientation: Comfortable measuring delivery by outcome validation rather than velocity proxies.
- AI-augmented working practice: Fluent with current GenAI assistants and agentic delivery tooling. Able to direct AI output and design where AI agents fit in delivery workflows and where humans must remain in the loop.
- Communication: Exhibit excellent communication skills to inspire and influence stakeholders. Serve as the contact for value achievement and collaborate with product engineering teams. Facilitate co-creation workshops to foster alignment and decision-making
The wage range for this role takes into account the wide range of factors that are considered in making compensation decisions including but not limited to skill sets; experience and training; licensure and certifications; and other business and organizational needs. The disclosed range estimate has not been adjusted for the applicable geographic differential associated with the location at which the position may be filled. At Deloitte, it is not typical for an individual to be hired at or near the top of the range for their role and compensation decisions are dependent on the facts and circumstances of each case. A reasonable estimate of the current range is $124,600 to $255,900.
You may also be eligible to participate in a discretionary annual incentive program, subject to the rules governing the program, whereby an award, if any, depends on various factors, including, without limitation, individual and organizational performance.
Deloitte is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for people with disabilities. If you require a reasonable accommodation to participate in the recruiting process, please direct your inquiries to the Global Call Center (GCC) at USTalentCICInbox@deloitte.com.
Recruiting tips
Benefits
Our people and culture
Our purpose
Professional development
Skills
Who can apply
The employer didn't state any visa, work authorization, citizenship or clearance requirements in this posting. Confirm with the employer before applying.
Read automatically from the employer's posting text. Always confirm with the employer — requirements can change after a job is published.