Delivery Practice Coach – AI Enablement

Vanguard

Delivery Practice Coach at Vanguard helping teams integrate AI into workflows. Collaborate with managers to enhance software development practices and improve delivery discipline.

Posted 4/24/2026full-timeMalvern • North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Texas • 🇺🇸 United StatesMid-LevelSeniorWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

AI Enablement and AI-Assisted Engineering (approximately 50%)
Delivery Practice Coaches help teams meaningfully integrate AI into how they plan, build, test, document, and review software.
Coach product managers, technical leads, and engineering managers on practical, responsible AI usage across real engineering workflows.
Use personal hands-on AI experience to validate recommendations and build credibility.
Help teams redesign workflows to take advantage of AI while maintaining quality, security, and engineering standards.
Translate emerging AI capabilities into clear team practices, guardrails, and learning paths.
Diagnose delivery risks related to quality, reliability, dependencies, and operational health.
Coach teams on modern delivery and engineering practices that improve outcomes.
Help teams align delivery behaviors and metrics with product and organizational goals.
Validates improvements using data, observation, and lightweight experimentation.
Partner with engineering and product leaders to resolve recurring delivery challenges.
Identify bottlenecks, handoffs, and wait states that slow delivery.
Use flow metrics and qualitative signals to guide improvement conversations.
Design and test targeted, time-boxed experiments to improve throughput and stability to support our efforts at obtaining predictability.
Help teams reduce work in progress and simplify workflows.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Undergraduate degree or equivalent combination of training and experience required
Computer Science or Engineering experience preferred
Graduate degree preferred
Minimum of five years related work experience
8+ years of related work experience is preferred
Two years of leading large cross-functional teams on major organizational technology projects preferred
Financial Services and technical experience preferred.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Flexible working hours
Professional development opportunities

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Hard Skills & Tools

AI EnablementAI-Assisted Engineeringsoftware delivery practicesengineering workflowsdata validationlightweight experimentationflow metricsdelivery metricsquality assurancesecurity standards

Soft Skills

coachingcommunicationcollaborationproblem-solvingleadershiporganizational skillsadaptabilitymentoringcritical thinkingstakeholder engagement