VP, West Coast Delivery Data, AI & Enterprise Transformation

We are seeking a Head of San Francisco Bay Area/Data AI & Enterprise Transformation who is native to the Bay Area technology ecosystem deeply fluent in enterprise-scale data platforms AI-native engineering and frontier AI adoption and ready to build EPAMs most technically ambitious delivery practice on the West Coast. This leader owns delivery excellence across flagship enterprise accounts in the San FranciscoSilicon Valley corridor leads the buildout of EPAMs Data & AI delivery capability in the Bay Area (a deliberate strategic priority) and serves as EPAMs most senior technical delivery authority with CTO CPTO and CDO-level clients who expect a peer not a vendor.

Req.#

• Own the Bay Area enterprise portfolio. Lead delivery across EPAMs flagship accounts in the SF/Silicon Valley corridor. Serve as the most senior delivery voice in client rooms - from data architecture design and AI program scoping through production handoff and account expansion
• Scale and connect to Data & AI practice. Establish and grow EPAMs Data Platform and AI/ML delivery capability in the Bay Area
• Define the delivery model hire the senior talent and land the $10M data transformation programs
• Front-face transformation. Drive change at CTO CPTO and CDO level representing delivery architecture data platform strategy AI adoption roadmaps and enterprise transformation business cases. Be the person clients trust in the room when the program is under pressure
• Leverage and enable the frontier AI ecosystem. Translate frontier AI capabilities from foundation model partners lab-adjacent ISVs and hyperscaler AI platforms into enterprise-grade delivery programs. Build EPAMs reputation as the integrator that can take frontier AI from prototype to production at enterprise scale
• Build the talent. Develop and retain AI-native and data/cloud-native delivery professionals in the Bay Area. Define what AI-native cloud/data-native delivery means at EPAM West Coast and hold the bar
• FDEs/Forward Agentic Engineers leader and business enabler

• Enterprise delivery track record. Has led large-scale programs ($15M$50M TCV) with complex client organizations multi-stakeholder multi-geography multi-year. Fully cloud-native AI-native thinking across the delivery lifecycle. Can point to outcomes: delivery velocity data quality AI adoption rates
• Data platform depth. Has run data engineering data platform or AI/ML engineering delivery at enterprise scale. Fluent in modern data stacks: Databricks Snowflake Spark or equivalent. Understands DataOps MLOps and the gap between a working model and a production data product
• AI-native delivery fluency. Structural AI integration in delivery autonomous testing LLM-assisted development agentic QA AI observability not tool familiarity. Can design and defend the AI-native delivery model to a CTO who has heard every pitch
• Bay Area market gravitas. Active network at Fortune 500 tech fintech biotech/life sciences or enterprise SaaS in the Bay Area. Carries the credibility and presence to run a room at CPTO or CDO level. Clients trust this person with difficult conversations
• Frontier AI fluency. Understands the frontier AI landscape capabilities limitations enterprise applicability and the gap between a lab demo and a production system. Ideally has relationships at AI labs AI teams or frontier-model ISVs
• 15 years in software or data delivery leadership at a technology company consultancy or systems integrator with at least 3 years in a Sr. Director/VP or equivalent delivery leadership role on programs of $1550M scope. Must have managed distributed offshore/nearshore delivery teams