Manager, AI Solution Architect

As a Manager, you will have a broad remit of responsibilities, which may flex depending on the expectation of the specific role you are fulfilling for your client. You'll lead small teams to deliver business critical outcomes with and for our clients. You'll apply your delivery know-how and technical understanding, along with understanding of the Banking industry to support clients with their complex challenges, and will be responsible for the likes of:

• Supporting clients and Deloitte AI leads in translating a vision into an AI architecture strategy, roadmap and transition states.
• Taking ownership of solution designs and technical decisions, working closely with AI Engineers, Process Designers, Business teams, Infosec specialists, and other Architects.
• Experience in assessing appropriate technologies from a pool of open-source and commercial offerings, considering deployment models and integration with existing tools.
• Supporting the successful execution and operational improvement of AI-powered applications using agile methodology.
• Working with security and risk leaders to foresee and mitigate AI risks, ensuring ethical AI implementation and regulatory compliance.
• Owning the preparation for technical review boards and design authorities and working with Deloitte experts to ensure compliance with data privacy, security and regulatory requirements.
• Building strong working relationships with our clients and providing technical advice on AI platform strategy and capabilities.
• Producing technical project proposals and estimating the delivery effort and risks.
• Contributing to our internal AI technical training pathways and mentoring junior Deloitte colleagues.
• Supporting presales conversations with clients and working on business case documents for AI implementations.
• Identifying and communicating technology trends and their impact.
• Publishing technical whitepapers and thought leadership material.

If you're a highly motivated and experienced professional seeking a challenging and rewarding role where you can make a real difference, we encourage you to apply.

• Proven experience in architecture-related disciplines.
• Demonstrate experience across the Financial Services industry, with a primary focus on the Banking sector.
• Have a good understanding of how to architect scalable, performant and cost optimised AI solutions across a mix of serverless technologies, containerised deployments, and GPU-hosted workloads. This includes technical decision-making on different patterns and trade-offs.
• Demonstrate a strong understanding of modern data architectures, including how to manage structured and semi-structured data, and strategies to curate high-quality datasets to power Agentic AI workloads.
• Have strong working knowledge of AI fundamentals (prompt engineering, fine-tuning, embeddings, semantic search and RAG), and a solid understanding of vector databases (e.g. Pinecone), agent frameworks (e.g. LangChain, LangGraph, Agent Development Kit), and protocols (e.g. MCP, A2A). Knowledge of deploying and hosting open-source Foundational Models (e.g. Llama or Mistral) is considered a plus.
• Have a strong understanding of MLOps/LLMOps fundamentals - the capabilities, tooling and frameworks required to train, test, monitor and improve model lifecycles, and the common evaluation metrics for an agentic solution.
• Demonstrate senior stakeholder management skills, exceptional communication and presentation skills, and effective collaboration with multidisciplinary teams.

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