Forward Deployed Engineer - Applied AI - Senior Manager - Financial Services - Consulting
About the role
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The Opportunity: Leads the definition and delivery of AI system design principles, reference architectures, and engineering standards for highly complex AI/ML initiatives across the organization. Brings deep technical authority, exceptional hands-on engineering experience, and the ability to shape long-term technology direction while also leading complex project and program outcomes. Takes accountability for the architecture, technical quality, integration approach, delivery execution, and operational excellence of AI-enabled solutions and platforms. Ensures business and user requirements are translated into scalable, secure, reusable, and high-impact technical designs that can be adopted across multiple teams and domains.
Responsibilities
- Define and govern system design principles, reference architectures, and engineering patterns for AI/ML, generative AI, RAG, and agentic systems.
- Lead the most complex and escalated technical challenges across multiple teams, providing hands-on guidance in architecture, coding, troubleshooting, and design remediation.
- Own end-to-end architecture for strategic AI initiatives, including service boundaries, orchestration models, data contracts, evaluation frameworks, and operational guardrails.
- Drive consistency in engineering standards, design