Technical Delivery Manager

Orion Innovation is a premier, award-winning, global business and technology services firm. Orion delivers game-changing business transformation and product development rooted in digital strategy, experience design, and engineering, with a unique combination of agility, scale, and maturity. We work with a wide range of clients across many industries including financial services, professional services, telecommunications and media, consumer products, automotive, industrial automation, professional sports and entertainment, life sciences, ecommerce, and education.

We are seeking an accomplished Senior Technical Delivery Manager to lead the architecture, engineering, and delivery of large-scale data, analytics, and AI platforms. This role requires a rare combination of deep technical expertise, enterprise architecture experience, and proven leadership of globally distributed, multidisciplinary teams.

The successful candidate will manage a global organization of approximately 150 resources across data engineering, software engineering, cloud, Dev Ops, quality engineering, architecture, analytics, AI, and program management. The individual must remain technically hands-on, confidently engage with engineering teams, and partner with enterprise Architecture Review Boards to drive scalable and secure technology decisions.

• Lead the end-to-end delivery of complex, enterprise-scale data, analytics, application, and AI programs.
• Manage a globally distributed team of approximately 150 professionals across multiple disciplines, locations, vendors, and time zones.
• Establish program governance covering scope, schedule, budget, dependencies, quality, risks, resources, and executive reporting.
• Translate business objectives into actionable technology roadmaps, delivery plans, and measurable outcomes.
• Manage multiple concurrent work streams while maintaining alignment across architecture, engineering, Dev Ops, security, testing, and operations.
• Drive delivery predictability through effective planning, dependency management, risk mitigation, and outcome-based performance metrics.
• Build strong relationships with senior business leaders, product owners, engineering leaders, and technology partners.

• Provide hands-on technical leadership for large-scale implementations using Databricks and Microsoft Fabric
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• Design and deliver modern enterprise data platforms, including data lakes, lake houses, warehouses, data pipelines, semantic models, and analytics solutions.
• Guide decisions related to platform architecture, workload design, performance, scalability, security, resiliency, and cost optimization.
• Lead the integration of Microsoft Fabric, Databricks, Power BI, enterprise applications, APIs, and AI capabilities.
• Apply practical knowledge of batch and real-time data processing, medallion architecture, Delta Lake, data modeling, and distributed computing.
• Establish engineering standards and reusable frameworks for data ingestion, transformation, orchestration, quality, observability, and consumption.

• Design and review end-to-end solution architectures spanning data, applications, integrations, analytics, and AI.
• Partner with enterprise architects and Architecture Review Boards to present, defend, and obtain approval for proposed technology solutions.
• Ensure architectures comply with enterprise standards for security, privacy, data governance, resiliency, scalability, and regulatory requirements.
• Lead technical design reviews and challenge engineering teams to develop pragmatic, maintainable, and cost-effective solutions.
• Drive the adoption of reusable architecture patterns,…