Senior Software Delivery & Quality Manager - Generative AI

Join an award-winning, internationally recognised B2B consultancy as a Senior Delivery & Quality Manager - Generative AI, leading the structured delivery and quality governance of AI capabilities deployed in regulated Legal and HR environments.

Working closely with the Director of Search & Generative AI, you will translate roadmap priorities into sequenced delivery plans, ensuring Generative AI initiatives are executed with pace, clarity, and production readiness. You'll sit at the intersection of AI engineering, platform, and product-providing disciplined execution oversight, structured QA visibility, and evidence-based release governance. Key duties in this dynamic role will include:

• Lead end-to-end delivery execution of Generative AI initiatives from planning through release.
• Translate AI roadmap priorities into coordinated backlogs, milestones, and release plans.
• Establish structured quality dashboards covering AI output, retrieval performance, and system behaviour.
• Consolidate delivery and QA signals to support informed go/no-go decisions.
• Ensure releases meet robustness, compliance, and regulatory standards.
• Act as the connective layer between engineering execution, quality oversight, and senior stakeholders.

Required Experience

• Strong background in technical delivery leadership within engineering-led environments.
• Proven experience delivering complex digital, data, or AI-enabled systems into production.
• Experience overseeing QA, release governance, and structured performance reporting.
• Ability to interpret technical quality signals and translate them into clear delivery insight.
• Experience of BI reporting tools and dashboards with experience of Databricks BI or OpenSearch Dashboard highly desirable.
• Comfortable operating in ambiguity, managing risk, and maintaining delivery momentum.
• Exposure to regulated or high-trust domains (Legal, HR, Finance, Healthcare) strongly preferred.
• Familiarity with Generative AI, RAG, or ML systems advantageous.

Why Join?

You'll play a pivotal role in ensuring Generative AI systems are delivered coherently, responsibly, and at scale-working alongside senior AI leadership in a market-leading consultancy. This is a high-impact role combining disciplined delivery management with structured AI quality oversight, offering strong ownership, visibility, and long-term influence.

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