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Senior Delivery Lead

Ulteig
$134,300- $181,800
United States, North Dakota, Fargo
3350 38th Avenue South (Show on map)
May 16, 2026
Description

The Opportunity

Ulteig is seeking a Senior Delivery Lead to oversee delivery execution for large, complex products, product lines, or multiinitiative programs supporting the firm's digital transformation efforts. This role is critical to ensuring predictable, transparent, and defensible delivery outcomes where complexity, dependency density, or business risk are elevated.

The Senior Delivery Lead operates with a high degree of autonomy within established program guardrails, partnering closely with Product Management, Program leadership, Engineering, and extended business teams. The role serves as a key execution counterpart to Product and Program leadership-ensuring delivery plans are realistic, risks are surfaced early, and leadership decisions are informed by credible delivery intelligence.

What You'll Do

This position requires advanced delivery leadership, systems thinking, and the ability to manage crossinitiative complexity at scale. The Senior Delivery Lead is accountable for delivery health across multiple workstreams and is expected to proactively anticipate risks, orchestrate dependencies, and enable leadership decisionmaking through clear execution insights.

More specifically, this role includes:

Complex Delivery Orchestration - 30%



  • Own endtoend delivery for large, complex products, product lines, or multiinitiative programs.
  • Manage milestones, dependencies, timelines, and release coordination across multiple workstreams with high dependency density or elevated business risk.
  • Operate with high autonomy within program guardrails, driving execution decisions while maintaining alignment to strategic intent.
  • Ensure delivery commitments are achievable, wellsequenced, and aligned to capacity across teams.



CrossInitiative Dependency & Risk Orchestration - 30%



  • Actively manage crossteam and crossinitiative dependencies, ensuring alignment across products, platforms, and enabling teams.
  • Anticipate systemic delivery risks across initiatives and surface impacts early, paired with clear options and tradeoffs.
  • Maintain delivery status reporting, RAID logs, milestone tracking, and dependency maps for decisionready visibility.
  • Ensure delivery execution remains aligned to roadmap commitments and business priorities as conditions evolve.



Execution Cadence, Transparency & Decision Enablement - 30%



  • Partner with Product Management to ensure backlog readiness, sprint alignment, and execution feasibility.
  • Surface delivery tradeoffs, risks, constraints, and downstream impacts to inform Product prioritization and roadmap decisions.
  • Partner with Program leadership to inform delivery sequencing, investment decisions, and crossinitiative coordination.
  • Ensure delivery plans and commitments are realistic, defensible, and backed by capacity, dependency, and risk analysis.



Partnering with the Extended Team - 10%



  • Partner with Marketing, Commercialization, Change Management, and Communications teams on release readiness and launch coordination.
  • Collaborate with Quality and the Engineering Center of Excellence to reinforce delivery standards, quality expectations, and readiness criteria.
  • Enable smooth, coordinated releases across technical and business stakeholders.



What We Expect from You



  • Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Business, Technology, or a related discipline-or equivalent experience.
  • 7+ years of experience in delivery leadership, program execution, or complex initiative management within technologyenabled or engineering organizations.
  • Proven experience managing largescale, multiworkstream initiatives with high dependency density.
  • Strong command of agile or hybrid delivery models within a productoriented organization.
  • Demonstrated ability to anticipate risks, manage ambiguity, and inform leadership decisionmaking with execution data.
  • Exceptional facilitation, communication, and stakeholdermanagement skills at senior levels.
  • Strong business acumen with the ability to connect delivery execution to enterprise outcomes.
  • Proficiency in Microsoft tools (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Project) and common agile delivery tooling.
  • PMP, Agile, or related certifications are a plus.
  • Must have authorization to work permanently in the U.S.



What Success Looks Like



  • Complex initiatives deliver predictably despite high dependency and risk profiles.
  • Product and Program leaders rely on delivery insights to make confident sequencing and investment decisions.
  • Risks and dependencies are surfaced early with actionable options.
  • Delivery commitments are credible, transparent, and consistently met.
  • Crossfunctional teams experience clear orchestration and minimal execution friction.



As you consider applying for a position at Ulteig, we encourage you to think outside the box - because we do! You might not meet 100% of the skills listed in a description, but we are committed to hiring people with exceptional talent, ability and potential, and then creating an environment where they can become the best versions of themselves. We don't want to miss out on the possibility of speaking with the next outstanding Ulteig team member, so please apply if you think this role is a great match for your unique skills and strengths. And, yes, relevant military experience is absolutely considered for transitioning service members.

What You Can Expect from Ulteig

Ulteig is a purpose-driven organization that has built a culture focused on people, both our clients and our employees, for over 80 years. Working at Ulteig is more than a job, opening opportunities to make an impact by creating and solving for a sustainable future. We recognize our success relies heavily on the dedication and focus of our workforce; this is why we make investing in our employees a top priority. We prioritize flexibility and staying connected to meet your needs and help you achieve your goals. We value your unique perspective, respect your individuality, and celebrate your contributions. At Ulteig, we take our success and the success of our clients personally.

We offer our team members:



  • Flexible Workplace
  • Employee Ownership
  • Competitive Pay
  • Comprehensive Benefits Package
  • Collaborative Environment
  • Innovative Culture


Our vision is to be the most trusted partners transforming our world's critical infrastructure. Ulteig connects people and resources to develop compelling, integrated solutions across multiple Lifeline Sectors, including Power, Renewables, Transportation, and Water. Ulteig is a trusted partner in engineering North America's essential infrastructure and leverages its expertise with a wide range of public and private clients.

At Ulteig, we care deeply about our team, listening to their needs and ensuring they have the tools necessary to be productive, whether they choose to work remotely, hybrid or in the office. Regardless of where you work, you are empowered to build a workday that best suits your strengths. We strive to ensure a balance and separation between home and work life. We support a flexible working schedule so employees are able to focus on what's important to them.

If you would like to be a part of a company that empowers their employees, apply today!

Ulteig is a Drug Free Workplace

ACHIEVE | GROW | COLLABORATE

Additional Opportunity Details:
Target Base Compensation Range for this role is $134,300- $181,800
* Factors that may be used to determine your actual salary include your job-specific skills, education, training, job location, number of years of experience related to this role, and comparison to other employees already in this role.

This position will be posted for a minimum of 3 days and will continue to be posted for an average of 60 days until a qualified applicant is selected or the position has been cancelled.

Notice to Recruiters and Staffing Agencies: to protect the interests of all parties, Ulteig Engineers, Inc., will not accept unsolicited resumes from any source other than directly from a candidate or an approved vendor that has a written and signed agreement in place with Ulteig. Please do not contact or forward resumes to our company employees or locations. Any unsolicited resumes will be considered Ulteig property. Ulteig is not responsible for any charges or fees related to unsolicited resumes.

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