AI Agent and Application Development Delivery Lead
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About the Role
KPMG Canada seeks an AI Agent and Application Development Delivery Lead to manage technical delivery of AI agent, automation, and application development work. The role involves backlog management, capacity planning, contractor oversight, and agile delivery.
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Responsibilities
- Lead day to day delivery of AI agent, automation, and application development work across internal developers and contractors
- Maintain and prioritize the development delivery backlog, ensuring work items are clear, sequenced, and assigned
- Manage developer and contractor capacity, including availability, skill alignment, onboarding, utilization, and throughput
- Guide intake, triage, and assignment of new AI agent, Power Platform, and application development requests
- Provide practical technical oversight by reviewing solution approaches, dependencies, quality expectations, and release readiness
- Partner with architects, security, infrastructure, product owners, and business stakeholders to remove blockers
- Support agile delivery routines including backlog refinement, planning, stand ups, retrospectives, and release coordination
- Oversee contractor related activities such as onboarding, work allocation, timesheet validation, and budget burn
- Maintain lightweight delivery documentation, handoffs, and decision records
- Identify recurring delivery friction points and recommend practical improvements
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience
- Prior hands on experience in enterprise application development, AI agent development, intelligent automation, integrations, or Microsoft Power Platform solutions
- Experience guiding developers, contractors, or technical delivery teams while staying close to the work
- Strong understanding of agile software delivery and backlog management
- Ability to translate business needs into clear technical work items
- Strong communication skills with ability to engage diverse stakeholders
- Ability to manage multiple delivery priorities and balance capacity
- Comfort with ambiguity and willingness to take ownership of outcomes
- Working knowledge of AI agent and application development concepts
- Experience with Microsoft Power Platform including Power Apps, Power Automate, Power BI, Dataverse
- Exposure to AI agent tools and generative AI capabilities such as Copilot Studio, Azure AI, Azure OpenAI
- Understanding of integrations, APIs, SharePoint Online, ServiceNow, or comparable platforms
Full Job Posting
Overview
- KPMG in Canada is seeking an AI Agent and Application Development Delivery Lead to join the ITS Application Development team.
- This role is designed for someone with prior hands on experience in application, automation, or AI agent development who is ready to move into a delivery leadership role.
- The role focuses on keeping technical delivery moving, managing backlog, capacity, contractor onboarding, and resolving blockers.
What You Will Do
- Lead day to day delivery of AI agent, automation, and application development work across internal developers and contractors.
- Maintain and prioritize the development delivery backlog, ensuring work items are clear, sequenced, and assigned.
- Manage developer and contractor capacity, including availability, skill alignment, onboarding status, forecasted demand, utilization, and delivery throughput.
- Guide intake, triage, and assignment of new AI agent, Power Platform, and application development requests.
- Provide practical technical oversight by reviewing solution approaches, dependencies, quality expectations, and release readiness.
- Partner with architects, security, infrastructure, product owners, business stakeholders, and development teams to remove blockers.
- Support agile delivery routines, including backlog refinement, planning, stand ups, retrospectives, acceptance criteria, and release coordination.
- Oversee contractor related activities such as onboarding requests, work allocation, timesheet and invoice validation, budget burn, and spend visibility.
- Maintain lightweight delivery documentation, handoffs, and decision records.
- Identify recurring delivery friction points and recommend practical improvements.
What You Bring To The Role
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
- Prior hands on experience in enterprise application development, AI agent development, intelligent automation, integrations, or Microsoft Power Platform solutions.
- Experience guiding developers, contractors, or technical delivery teams while staying close enough to the work.
- Strong understanding of agile software delivery and backlog management in a technical development environment.
- Ability to translate business needs into clear technical work items.
- Strong communication skills with the ability to engage business users, developers, architects, security partners, and senior stakeholders.
- Ability to manage multiple delivery priorities, balance capacity, and make practical trade offs.
- Comfort with ambiguity and a willingness to take ownership of outcomes, unblock teams, and improve delivery practices.
- Working knowledge of AI agent and application development concepts, with hands on background.
- Experience with Microsoft Power Platform, including Power Apps, Power Automate, Power BI, Dataverse, and related solution delivery practices.
- Exposure to AI agent tools and generative AI capabilities such as Copilot Studio, Azure AI, Azure OpenAI, or similar platforms.
- Understanding of integrations, APIs, SharePoint Online, ServiceNow, Moveworks Agent Studio, or comparable enterprise platforms.
Pay Range Information
- Expected base salary range for BC Region: CAD 75,600 to CAD 114,600.
- Expected base salary range for Ontario Region: CAD 75,600 to CAD 114,600.
- May be eligible for bonus awards.
- KPMG offers a comprehensive and competitive Total Rewards program.
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