About the role
Description
Data & AI Senior Technical Delivery Manager
Matrix’s Data & AI practice designs, builds, and operates modern data platforms and AI solutions for enterprise clients across financial services, CPG, retail, and construction.
We are looking for a Senior Technical Delivery Manager to lead end-to-end delivery for some of our most strategic client engagements. You will be the person clients rely on to ensure programs deliver measurable business outcomes — and the person engineering teams rely on to remove obstacles and keep delivery moving.
This is a hands-on technical leadership role. You will not be expected to write production code every day, but you should be technically strong enough to challenge architecture decisions, understand a Databricks job failure, evaluate platform trade-offs, and confidently participate in technical design discussions with senior client stakeholders, including Chief Data Officers and technology leaders.
Lead End-to-End Data & AI Delivery
Own delivery of complex, multi-workstream Data & AI programs from kickoff through production and steady state.
Maintain accountability for scope, schedule, budget/margin, quality, risks, and client outcomes.
Build and manage detailed delivery plans, RAID logs, sprint cadences, dependencies, and governance processes.
Lead program status meetings and executive steering committees, proactively identifying risks and creating mitigation plans.
Manage scope and change control, including identifying scope creep, assessing business and financial impact, and negotiating change orders with clients.
Lead High-Performing Technical Teams
Lead distributed onshore/offshore teams of 8–25+ engineers, architects, data professionals, and consultants across multiple workstreams.
Establish delivery standards around engineering quality, documentation, code reviews, DevOps, environment management, and production readiness.
Own staffing and ramp-up plans in partnership with practice leadership.
Coach, mentor, and develop team members while providing meaningful performance feedback.
Remove technical, delivery, and interpersonal blockers quickly and escalate issues when executive intervention is genuinely required.
Own the Client Relationship
Serve as the primary day-to-day delivery leader for client executives, data leaders, technology stakeholders, and business sponsors.
Translate business objectives into practical technical and delivery strategies — and communicate technical realities in clear business terms.
Build trusted relationships with senior stakeholders and provide transparent, fact-based communication.
Lead executive-level meetings, including QBRs, KPI reviews, steering committees, escalations, and recovery plans.
Take ownership when programs go off track and lead structured recovery efforts to bring them back to plan.
Make client satisfaction and measurable business outcomes a core delivery KPI.
Drive Technical Delivery Quality
Partner with solution architects to oversee architecture and technical delivery across Snowflake, Databricks, and the modern data stack.
Ensure solutions follow strong engineering practices across:
Data architecture and modeling
Data pipelines and orchestration
Data governance and security
Performance and workload optimization
Cloud infrastructure
Cost management
Production support and reliability
Evaluate and guide build-vs-buy decisions, platform choices, technical debt, and architectural trade-offs.
Ensure key technical decisions are documented, communicated, and defensible.
Oversee delivery of AI/ML and GenAI solutions, including model lifecycle management, evaluation, production readiness, and responsible AI considerations where applicable.
Support Account Growth & Pre-Sales
Identify and help shape follow-on opportunities and expansion within existing accounts.
Contribute to proposals, SOWs, estimates, delivery approaches, staffing models, and commercial planning.
Serve as the delivery and technical voice during pre-sales pursuits and client presentations.
Partner with sales and practice leadership to assess delivery risks and ensure commitments are realistic and achievable.
Contribute to reusable delivery playbooks, accelerators, frameworks, and lessons learned across the Data & AI practice.
Required Qualifications
10+ years of experience in technology delivery, consulting, or professional services, including at least 5 years leading complex data, analytics, or AI programs.
Experience working within a consulting or professional services environment, with a strong understanding of utilization, margins, SOWs, change orders, and commercial delivery.
Hands-on working knowledge of Snowflake and/or Databricks in production environments.
Ability to confidently discuss modern data architecture concepts, including:
Data warehouse vs. lakehouse architecture
Delta Lake and/or Apache Iceberg
Unity Catalog and/or Snowflake governance
Data workload optimization
Cloud architecture and platform cost drivers
Working knowledge of modern data technologies such as dbt, Airflow, Azure Data Factory, Fivetran, and comparable ELT/orchestration platforms.
Experience with at least one major cloud platform: Azure, AWS, or GCP.
Familiarity with Power BI, Tableau, semantic layers, and data CI/CD practices.
Demonstrated success leading distributed onshore/offshore technical teams.
Strong executive presence and experience engaging directly with C-suite and senior technology/data leaders.
Proven experience recovering or turning around at least one challenging or at-risk program.
Strong command of Agile and hybrid delivery methodologies, with the judgment to adapt the delivery model to the client and engagement.
Excellent written, verbal, presentation, and stakeholder-management skills.
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or equivalent practical experience.
Preferred Qualifications
Experience working with clients in financial services, CPG, retail, or construction/AEC.
Exposure to Dataiku, MLOps platforms, GenAI, or agentic AI solutions.
Previous experience as a Data Engineer, BI Developer, Data Architect, or Solution Architect before transitioning into delivery leadership.
Experience with data governance, data quality, privacy, AML, model risk, or other regulatory-driven programs.
Relevant certifications such as:
Databricks
Snowflake SnowPro
Azure/AWS/GCP
PMP
SAFe
Willingness and ability to travel to client sites as needed.
🚀 Why Join Us?
You’ll work with a talented global team, contribute to meaningful technical initiatives, and help shape a high‑performing DevOps culture.
Matrix is a global, dynamic, and fast‑growing technology services and consulting company with over 17,000 employees worldwide. Founded in 2001, Matrix has grown through significant organic expansion and strategic acquisitions, executing some of the largest and most impactful technology projects in the market.
We specialize in the design, development, and implementation of advanced technologies, software solutions, and digital products. Our services include infrastructure and consulting, IT outsourcing and offshore delivery, training and assimilation programs, and acting as a trusted implementation and delivery partner for the world’s leading software vendors.
With deep expertise across both the private and public sectors—spanning Finance, Telecom, Healthcare, Hi‑Tech, Education, Defense, and Security—Matrix serves a strong customer base in Israel alongside a continuously expanding global client portfolio.
At Matrix, our people are at the heart of our success. We are a community of talented, creative, and dedicated professionals who are passionate about innovation and excellence. We actively attract, develop, and retain top talent, recognizing that every employee’s contribution is critical to our continued growth and future success.
Matrix’s success is built on a challenging and engaging work environment, competitive compensation and benefits, and meaningful career development opportunities. We foster a diverse, inclusive culture that encourages collaboration, continuous learning, and growth—together.
Join the winning team. Be challenged, grow your career, and enjoy the journey in a highly respected global organization.
To learn more, visit: www.matrix-ifs.com
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