EPAM is looking for a Technical Delivery Director – AI, Agentic Systems & Production AI to join our rapidly growing team in Dublin, Ireland, in a hybrid working mode.
In this position, you will lead the adoption of Generative AI and Agentic AI across enterprise environments, ensuring programs successfully transition from proof of concept into production-ready platforms. The role blends strategic leadership with hands-on accountability, enabling you to work directly with client executives and delivery teams to shape AI strategies, define executable architectures and manage complex AI-driven initiatives that deliver measurable business outcomes.
We embrace a flexible working environment, combining home working, office-based collaboration and client-site engagement.
Responsibilities
- Take end-to-end accountability for delivering complex AI-enabled programs from discovery through operation ensuring alignment to client strategy and measurable outcomes
- Lead the design and implementation of production AI systems that meet enterprise reliability, security and operational requirements
- Act as an AI and Agentic AI delivery lead coaching teams on orchestration, tool use, context management and human-in-the-loop practices
- Deliver AI programs integrating LLMs with enterprise microservices and platforms leveraging structured context layers and protocols such as Model Context Protocol (MCP)
- Analyse and validate AI architectural designs including data flows, model interactions, integration strategies and operational trade-offs
- Manage multi-stream delivery across AI platforms, cloud, security, integration and change ensuring predictability and quality
- Serve as a trusted advisor translating AI strategies into executable roadmaps and architectural patterns
- Establish and maintain robust delivery governance with ownership of budgets, risk control and commercial performance
- Identify and mitigate AI delivery risks such as hallucination, insecure tool invocation, context leakage, model drift, cost fluctuations and compliance issues
- Support pre-sales efforts by shaping proposals, estimates, delivery models and statements of work for large-scale AI initiatives
Requirements
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, AI or a related discipline or equivalent senior-level experience
- Demonstrated experience in senior technology leadership within consulting or delivery environments
- Proven ability to deliver AI or Generative AI solutions into production with accountability for cost, reliability, security and quality
- Practical ability to describe one or more production AI systems delivered including architecture, integration approach and operational considerations
- Knowledge of Agentic AI patterns, tool orchestration and structured context integration protocols such as MCP
- Strong technical foundations in software engineering, cloud platforms, data or architecture
- Experience leading large-scale programs with full responsibility for outcomes and budgets
- Understanding of security, data protection and compliance when delivering projects in regulated environments such as Financial Services
- Proven capability acting as a trusted advisor to senior stakeholders including C-suite executives
- Background in pre-sales and commercial shaping with experience in fixed-price or outcome-based delivery
We offer
- EPAM Group income protection scheme
- EPAM Group life assurance
- Group health scheme
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP)
- Corporate Programs, including Employee Referral Program with rewards
- Learning and development opportunities including in-house training and coaching, professional certifications, and courses