Solution Delivery Competence Leader (#5759)

N-iX is a global software development service company that helps businesses across the globe create next-generation software products. Founded in 2002, we unite 2,400+ tech-savvy professionals across 40+ countries, working on impactful projects for industry leaders and Fortune 500 companies. Our expertise spans cloud, data, AI/ML, embedded software, IoT, and more, driving digital transformation across finance, manufacturing, telecom, healthcare, and other industries. Join N-iX and become part of a team where your ideas make a real impact.

 Mission

We are scaling solution-based and fixed-price delivery, where we own the process, the estimate and the budget – not the client. Today every such project depends on the individual skill of whoever is assigned, and it is not consistent from project to project and is not scalable. We need someone who will help us fix this by delivering these projects themselves first, then turning what worked into practice the rest of our PMs can use.

Where this leads

You will lead the development of Solution Delivery competence and methodology from day one. At the start, you will also deliver a couple of projects yourself — because you cannot codify what you have not proven here.

Over time, your focus shifts from personally delivering projects to building and scaling the competence across N-Ix.

Success has one measure: other project managers using proven templates and blueprints to deliver on time, on budget, with GenAI built in and clients who would hire us again. Across the portfolio, not just the projects you touched.

What you will do:

First month. Map what already exists: which of our PMs have delivered solution-based projects, what artifacts and processes they use, what actually gets used versus what sits in a wiki, and what you would keep. This is a deliverable, not an onboarding period.

First 6–12 months – prove and build the model. Lead one or two solution projects, typically $500K–$1M, as lighthouse engagements. On each, you own:

• Estimate validation and commercial framing
• Planning, project baseline, and scope management
• Core team formation and staffing readiness
• Project P&L: committed cost and margin
• Assumptions, dependencies, and risk management
• Governance: cadence, metrics, reporting, and escalation
• AI-driven delivery and PM process optimization

You are not expected to own these projects permanently. Once the delivery model is established, the team is operating effectively, and a capable replacement is ready, you hand the project over.

In parallel – build and scale the competence. Build the PM Task Force and own the N-iX Solution Delivery Runbook. Together with Task Force members, gather and pilot practices from real projects and turn what works into reusable estimation models, staffing patterns, governance templates, tools, and accelerators.

Drive AI adoption and optimization across PM practices. The goal is for every new solution project to start with a proven delivery model rather than inventing one from scratch.

Throughout – you advise. Provide two focused services:

• Projects in crisis. When a project is going wrong, you go in, diagnose it, and hand back a plan with a named owner. You do not take the project over – that is a separate call, made by the VP of Delivery, and it resets everything else you are committed to. Weeks, not months.
• Pre-sale, the delivery side only. You will work in a close cooperation with Solution Leader (typically, a technical person/engineering manager) to validate if we will be able to deliver what we are about to promise to customers

Requirements:

Must have

• Delivered solution-based or fixed-price software projects end-to-end, personally accountable for scope, timeline and profitability 
• Led complex multi-million-dollar engagements; $5M+ project or program experience preferred
• Set projects up from before kickoff: estimation, staffing calibration, governance, client reporting cadence
• Technical enough to challenge an estimate or a technical proposal on substance
• Worked in a services or outsourcing company, with external paying clients
• Hands-on use of AI tools and accelerators in a real delivery context, and a considered view on what they change about estimation, progress reporting and verification

Must be

• Willing to hand a project over and leave it. Repeatedly. If you need to own an account long-term, this is the wrong role
• Open to what already works here. You are not starting from zero, and the people whose practice you will codify are still in the company. We will ask you what you would keep, not what you would fix
• Balance between maximizing our chances of winning the lead and ensuring a structured approach to how delivery should be organized

Nice to have

• Experience with AI DLC implementation
• Distributed teams across multiple countries
• European and US based clients
• Mentoring or community-building experience