Technical Delivery Lead

Technical Delivery Lead

Anywhere

Type: Contract-to-Hire

Category: Architecture

Industry: Insurance

Workplace Type: Remote

Reference ID: JN -052026-106757

Date Posted: 05/04/2026

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The Technical Delivery Lead will own end-to-end delivery for complex, enterprise-scale initiatives for our client. Initial focus on modernization of Hr Apps and Azure. The role bridges strategy, enterprise architecture, and execution to translate target-state designs into sequenced plans with measurable outcomes. The leader will coordinate cross-team delivery, enforce alignment with security and architecture standards, and ensure production readiness. Experience with integrations, data platforms, and non-functional requirements in large enterprise environments is critical.

This is a contract to hire opportunity. Applicants must be willing and able to work on a w2 basis and convert to FTE following contract duration. For our w2 consultants, we offer a great benefits package that includes Medical, Dental, and Vision benefits, 401k with company matching, and life insurance.

Rate: $100.00 to $90.00/hr. w2

Responsibilities:

• Own delivery outcomes across intake, discovery, architecture, build, test, release, and hypercare, meeting scope, schedule, budget, and quality commitments.

• Translate target-state enterprise architecture and solution designs into actionable roadmaps, workstreams, milestones, and dependency plans.

• Ensure compliance with enterprise standards and guardrails for reference architectures, technology standards, security, resiliency, data, integration, and operational readiness; drive resolution of exceptions.

• Partner with solution architects and engineering leads to drive design decisions, tradeoffs, and non-functional requirements including performance, availability, scalability, security, observability, and supportability.

• Coordinate delivery across multiple product and platform teams and vendors, managing critical-path dependencies and integration points.

• Identify and mitigate technical and delivery risks including technical debt, architecture drift, security exposures, and environment readiness; govern scope and architecture changes.

• Lead governance and stakeholder forums, providing clear status, decisions needed, and recommendations for executive stakeholders.

• Ensure deployments meet production readiness expectations including runbooks, monitoring, incident response, support model, training, and documentation, with complete handoffs to operations.

• Deliver programs with clear milestones, managed dependencies, and transparent reporting.

• Maintain alignment of solution designs to enterprise architecture standards with minimal late-stage rework or drift.

• Document key technical decisions and tradeoffs early and ensure understanding across delivery teams and stakeholders.

• Ensure production releases meet quality and operational readiness expectations with monitoring, runbooks, support model, and security sign-offs.

• Build trust with stakeholders by delivering forecasts and decision recommendations grounded in technical reality and execution data.

Experience Requirements:

• Proven delivery leadership for complex, cross-functional initiatives across multiple teams, systems, and dependencies in enterprise environments.

• Ability to decompose broad objectives into a delivery strategy across EPMO, Security, GRC, Enterprise Architecture, and Infrastructure.

• Working knowledge of enterprise architecture practices including standards, roadmaps, governance, and target-state alignment applied pragmatically during delivery.

• Strong solution architecture literacy across applications, APIs and integration, data flows, identity and access, infrastructure and cloud, and non-functional requirements, including pattern understanding and design.

• Demonstrated ability to translate ambiguous business goals into structured execution plans, milestones, and measurable outcomes.

• Experience driving risk and issue management and executive communication for high-visibility programs.

• Excellent stakeholder management and facilitation skills with engineering, security, operations, and business partners.

• 10+ years of experience in architecture, engineering, or large-scale program delivery.

• Proven experience leading execution across enterprise programs such as data, ERP, SaaS, and infrastructure.

• Background as a Solution Architect, Principal Engineer, or Technical Program Leader.

• Strong experience in the Microsoft Stack, eg: Azure, Fabric, C#, Power Platform.

• Deep expertise in system integrations including APIs, messaging, and middleware.

• Deep expertise in data platforms and pipelines.

• Experience with Insurance or Reinsurance domain and enterprise applications in HR (primary), Finance (Secondary) and SaaS.

• Experience collaborating with security, risk, and compliance functions.

• Experience delivering cloud and hybrid solutions such as landing zones, platform services, modernization, and migrations (preferred).

• Familiarity with architecture frameworks and practices such as TOGAF concepts, and with solution architecture deliverables including SADs, C4 or equivalent diagrams, and NFR catalogs (preferred).

• Experience in regulated environments and partnering with security, risk, and compliance teams (preferred).

• Background partnering with DevSecOps and SRE or operations teams to improve release reliability and operational readiness (preferred).

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Skills, experience, and other compensable factors will be considered when determining pay rate. The pay range provided in this posting reflects a W2 hourly rate; other employment options may be available that may result in pay outside of the provided range.

W2 employees of Eliassen Group who are regularly scheduled to work 30 or more hours per week are eligible for the following benefits: medical (choice of 3 plans), dental, vision, pre-tax accounts, other voluntary benefits including life and disability insurance, 401(k) with match, and sick time if required by law in the worked-in state/locality.

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About Eliassen Group:

Eliassen Group is a strategic consulting firm that helps organizations reach further and achieve more through our technology, business advisory, and life sciences solutions. For nearly 40 years, we have combined exceptional people, deep domain expertise, and intelligent capabilities to expand our clients' capacity and accelerate meaningful outcomes. We are driven by a purpose to positively impact the lives of our employees, clients, consultants, and the communities we serve.

Eliassen is committed to building a diverse and inclusive team from a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. We are an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer and all employment decisions are based on merit, performance, and business needs. Eliassen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, gender identity or expression, sexual preference or orientation, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, and related medical conditions), marital status, creed, religion, physical or mental disability, genetic information, military or veteran status, age, ancestry, national origin, citizenship status, prohibited criminal record inquiries of applicants and employees, or any other category protected by federal, state, or local laws.

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