Senior Technical Manager
United States
Job Description
Senior Technical Manager
Chicago, Illinois

Job Summary

Job Title: Senior Technical Manager – Enterprise AI

Role Overview

We are seeking a Senior Technical Manager to lead the client’s Enterprise AI portfolio across multiple projects and teams. The role will own technical delivery, guide solution architecture, and work closely with business stakeholders and senior leadership to translate business priorities into secure, scalable AI solutions with measurable outcomes.

Key Responsibilities

  • Manage the end-to-end AI project portfolio, including discovery, feasibility assessment, planning, development, deployment, and production support.

  • Partner with business stakeholders to identify and prioritize AI use cases, define success criteria, and establish delivery roadmaps.

  • Lead cross-functional teams comprising AI/ML engineers, application developers, architects, data engineers, QA, and platform teams.

  • Provide technical direction and review solution architecture, integrations, engineering practices, and production readiness.

  • Oversee initiatives involving Generative AI, enterprise assistants, agentic workflows, machine learning, and intelligent automation.

  • Manage project dependencies, resource capacity, budgets, risks, and delivery commitments across concurrent initiatives.

  • Establish AI governance covering data privacy, security, access controls, responsible AI, model evaluation, and human oversight.

  • Ensure solutions meet agreed expectations for accuracy, reliability, performance, scalability, and operating cost.

  • Collaborate with enterprise architecture, security, data, infrastructure, and operations teams to support implementation and adoption.

  • Present portfolio status, business outcomes, risks, and decisions requiring leadership attention through regular governance reviews.

  • Mentor technical leads, resolve delivery escalations, and promote reusable components and consistent engineering standards.

Required Experience and Skills

  • Significant experience in enterprise technology delivery, with demonstrated leadership of multiple projects and technical teams.

  • Proven experience delivering AI/ML or Generative AI solutions into production.

  • Strong understanding of LLMs, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), embeddings, vector databases, prompt engineering, agent orchestration, and evaluation frameworks.

  • Experience with enterprise AI platforms such as OpenAI services, Azure AI, Google Cloud Vertex AI, or AWS Bedrock.

  • Strong knowledge of APIs, microservices, enterprise integrations, cloud architecture, containers, and Kubernetes.

  • Familiarity with Python-based AI development, CI/CD, MLOps/LLMOps, observability, and model lifecycle management.

  • Ability to assess architecture and technical trade-offs, challenge estimates, and guide teams through complex delivery issues.

  • Strong stakeholder management, executive communication, negotiation, and team leadership skills.

  • Ability to translate business needs into delivery plans and explain technical decisions clearly to nontechnical stakeholders.

Preferred Qualifications

  • Experience managing an enterprise AI portfolio or establishing an AI Centre of Excellence.

  • Experience with enterprise knowledge integration, AI security guardrails, and organizational adoption.

  • Exposure to vendor management, commercial planning, and cloud cost optimization.

  • Bachelor’s or master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related discipline.

Success Measures

Predictable delivery across the AI portfolio, measurable business value, stakeholder adoption, reliable production performance, and effective governance of AI risks and costs.

Key Responsibilities

Job Title: Senior Technical Manager – Enterprise AI

Role Overview

We are seeking a Senior Technical Manager to lead the client’s Enterprise AI portfolio across multiple projects and teams. The role will own technical delivery, guide solution architecture, and work closely with business stakeholders and senior leadership to translate business priorities into secure, scalable AI solutions with measurable outcomes.

Key Responsibilities

  • Manage the end-to-end AI project portfolio, including discovery, feasibility assessment, planning, development, deployment, and production support.

  • Partner with business stakeholders to identify and prioritize AI use cases, define success criteria, and establish delivery roadmaps.

  • Lead cross-functional teams comprising AI/ML engineers, application developers, architects, data engineers, QA, and platform teams.

  • Provide technical direction and review solution architecture, integrations, engineering practices, and production readiness.

  • Oversee initiatives involving Generative AI, enterprise assistants, agentic workflows, machine learning, and intelligent automation.

  • Manage project dependencies, resource capacity, budgets, risks, and delivery commitments across concurrent initiatives.

  • Establish AI governance covering data privacy, security, access controls, responsible AI, model evaluation, and human oversight.

  • Ensure solutions meet agreed expectations for accuracy, reliability, performance, scalability, and operating cost.

  • Collaborate with enterprise architecture, security, data, infrastructure, and operations teams to support implementation and adoption.

  • Present portfolio status, business outcomes, risks, and decisions requiring leadership attention through regular governance reviews.

  • Mentor technical leads, resolve delivery escalations, and promote reusable components and consistent engineering standards.

Required Experience and Skills

  • Significant experience in enterprise technology delivery, with demonstrated leadership of multiple projects and technical teams.

  • Proven experience delivering AI/ML or Generative AI solutions into production.

  • Strong understanding of LLMs, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), embeddings, vector databases, prompt engineering, agent orchestration, and evaluation frameworks.

  • Experience with enterprise AI platforms such as OpenAI services, Azure AI, Google Cloud Vertex AI, or AWS Bedrock.

  • Strong knowledge of APIs, microservices, enterprise integrations, cloud architecture, containers, and Kubernetes.

  • Familiarity with Python-based AI development, CI/CD, MLOps/LLMOps, observability, and model lifecycle management.

  • Ability to assess architecture and technical trade-offs, challenge estimates, and guide teams through complex delivery issues.

  • Strong stakeholder management, executive communication, negotiation, and team leadership skills.

  • Ability to translate business needs into delivery plans and explain technical decisions clearly to nontechnical stakeholders.

Preferred Qualifications

  • Experience managing an enterprise AI portfolio or establishing an AI Centre of Excellence.

  • Experience with enterprise knowledge integration, AI security guardrails, and organizational adoption.

  • Exposure to vendor management, commercial planning, and cloud cost optimization.

  • Bachelor’s or master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related discipline.

Success Measures

Predictable delivery across the AI portfolio, measurable business value, stakeholder adoption, reliable production performance, and effective governance of AI risks and costs.

Skill Requirements

Job Title: Senior Technical Manager – Enterprise AI

Role Overview

We are seeking a Senior Technical Manager to lead the client’s Enterprise AI portfolio across multiple projects and teams. The role will own technical delivery, guide solution architecture, and work closely with business stakeholders and senior leadership to translate business priorities into secure, scalable AI solutions with measurable outcomes.

Key Responsibilities

  • Manage the end-to-end AI project portfolio, including discovery, feasibility assessment, planning, development, deployment, and production support.

  • Partner with business stakeholders to identify and prioritize AI use cases, define success criteria, and establish delivery roadmaps.

  • Lead cross-functional teams comprising AI/ML engineers, application developers, architects, data engineers, QA, and platform teams.

  • Provide technical direction and review solution architecture, integrations, engineering practices, and production readiness.

  • Oversee initiatives involving Generative AI, enterprise assistants, agentic workflows, machine learning, and intelligent automation.

  • Manage project dependencies, resource capacity, budgets, risks, and delivery commitments across concurrent initiatives.

  • Establish AI governance covering data privacy, security, access controls, responsible AI, model evaluation, and human oversight.

  • Ensure solutions meet agreed expectations for accuracy, reliability, performance, scalability, and operating cost.

  • Collaborate with enterprise architecture, security, data, infrastructure, and operations teams to support implementation and adoption.

  • Present portfolio status, business outcomes, risks, and decisions requiring leadership attention through regular governance reviews.

  • Mentor technical leads, resolve delivery escalations, and promote reusable components and consistent engineering standards.

Required Experience and Skills

  • Significant experience in enterprise technology delivery, with demonstrated leadership of multiple projects and technical teams.

  • Proven experience delivering AI/ML or Generative AI solutions into production.

  • Strong understanding of LLMs, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), embeddings, vector databases, prompt engineering, agent orchestration, and evaluation frameworks.

  • Experience with enterprise AI platforms such as OpenAI services, Azure AI, Google Cloud Vertex AI, or AWS Bedrock.

  • Strong knowledge of APIs, microservices, enterprise integrations, cloud architecture, containers, and Kubernetes.

  • Familiarity with Python-based AI development, CI/CD, MLOps/LLMOps, observability, and model lifecycle management.

  • Ability to assess architecture and technical trade-offs, challenge estimates, and guide teams through complex delivery issues.

  • Strong stakeholder management, executive communication, negotiation, and team leadership skills.

  • Ability to translate business needs into delivery plans and explain technical decisions clearly to nontechnical stakeholders.

Preferred Qualifications

  • Experience managing an enterprise AI portfolio or establishing an AI Centre of Excellence.

  • Experience with enterprise knowledge integration, AI security guardrails, and organizational adoption.

  • Exposure to vendor management, commercial planning, and cloud cost optimization.

  • Bachelor’s or master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related discipline.

Success Measures

Predictable delivery across the AI portfolio, measurable business value, stakeholder adoption, reliable production performance, and effective governance of AI risks and costs.

Other Requirements

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Minimum Salary (US): 
Information at a Glance

Why HCLTech?

At HCLTech, you'll supercharge your potential. You'll find your career. And you'll find your spark. All at a place that knows that helping its customers stay on top starts by putting its people first.

HCLTech is a global technology company, home to more than 223,000 people across 60 countries, delivering industry-leading capabilities centered around digital, engineering, cloud and AI, powered by a broad portfolio of technology services and products. We work with clients across all major verticals, providing industry solutions for Financial Services, Manufacturing, Life Sciences and Healthcare, Technology and Services, Telecom and Media, Retail and CPG, and Public Services. Consolidated revenues as of 12 months ending June 2026 totaled $14.8 billion. 

 

Compensation and Benefits

A candidate’s pay within the range will depend on their skills, experience, education, and other factors permitted by law. This role may also be eligible for performance-based bonuses subject to company policies. In addition, this role is eligible for the following benefits subject to company policies: medical, dental, vision, pharmacy, life, accidental death & dismemberment, and disability insurance; employee assistance program; 401(k) retirement plan; 10 days of paid time off per year (some positions are eligible for need-based leave with no designated number of leave days per year); and 10 paid holidays per year.