Full-Time Opportunity: Onsite Delivery Leader (SME) | AI & Application Development

Job Title: Onsite SME (Delivery Leader) – Applications & AI-Assisted Development

Work Location: Onsite – Tampa, Florida

Duration: Full time

Experience Required: 8 to 14 years of overall experience in software development and delivery, including significant experience leading application-based projects and Agile teams.

Mandatory Skill Tags: Agile delivery, AI-assisted development, Unit testing, Integration testing, Technical leadership 

Secondary Skill Tags: Azure/AWS, Microservices, RESTful APIs, CI/CD, SQL/NoSQL databases, DevOps, Application security, Cloud-native development

Job Summary:

The Onsite SME (Delivery Leader) will lead and mentor Agile delivery teams building and enhancing complex applications and services for Advantive. This role owns end-to-end delivery quality, leveraging AI-assisted development practices to accelerate outcomes while maintaining high delivery standards. The incumbent will collaborate closely with product owners, architects, and cross-functional stakeholders to deliver scalable, maintainable, and well-governed solutions.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead onsite delivery of applications, services, and components, ensuring timely and high-quality releases. 
• Provide functional leadership and subject matter expertise across requirement refinement, planning, delivery tracking, and release management activities. 
• Drive adoption and effective use of AI-assisted development tools to improve delivery efficiency, quality, and predictability. 
• Define and enforce delivery standards, governance mechanisms, and best practices for predictable and sustainable delivery. 
• Ensure appropriate validation and quality gates are in place across the delivery lifecycle, optimally leveraging AI to increase speed and reliability without compromising quality. 
• Collaborate with product management, architecture, and operations teams to refine requirements and ensure production readiness. 
• Mentor and upskill team members in Agile delivery, stakeholder management, and AI-driven ways of working.

Required Skills

• Strong expertise in leading functional and delivery outcomes for enterprise-grade applications and services. 
• Hands-on experience leading Agile delivery teams (Scrum or Kanban) in a product or project environment. 
• Practical experience using AI-assisted tools to support planning, analysis, documentation, and quality activities. 
• Proven experience in establishing and managing effective delivery governance, risk management, and status reporting. 
• Strong skills in issue/risk identification, root-cause analysis, and driving resolution across cross-functional teams. 
• Experience with release planning, dependency management, and coordination across multiple squads or workstreams. 
• Excellent communication, stakeholder management, and team mentoring skills. 

Good to Have Skills

• Experience working with teams delivering solutions on cloud platforms in enterprise environments. 
• Exposure to projects involving integration of multiple systems or services. 
• Familiarity with large-scale program delivery, including coordination across distributed or multi-location teams. 
• Experience working closely with architecture, operations, and support teams to ensure smooth transitions to production. 
• Background in applying governance and controls for quality, compliance, and auditability. 
• Prior experience in a similar SME / Delivery Lead / Technical Lead role in enterprise environments. 
• Salesforce knowledge. 
• Knowledge of any of the Advantive products.

Educational Qualification

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related technical discipline.

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