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# Engagement Lead & Solutions Architect

- **Company:** Vigna Inc
- **Location:** Buffalo, NY, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Microsoft Azure, Api Management
- **Published:** August 20, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.dice.com/job-detail/c27c1ff8-6470-446c-b172-645e7f255d35

## About the Role

Enterprise AI/cloud program delivery and solutions architecture (Azure cloud, APIM, identity, security)

 - BFSI delivery leadership experience, working fluency in AI governance and banking regulatory context (SR 26-2, NYDFS) to credibly bridge both workstreams

 - Program/commercial management (milestone billing, scope control)

 - Executive stakeholder management

## Description

Owns overall project management and execution delivery

 - Owns the solutions architecture across both workstreams - the Azure APIM governance/gateway platform and the AI risk assessment & governance strategy engagement ensuring the two are designed and delivered as one coherent program

 - Leads and coordinates the full 6-person team resolving cross-workstream dependencies (e.g., gateway controls in WS1 feeding the guardrails/monitoring design in WS2 and vice-versa)

 - Serves as the single client-facing point of delivery contact for client, accountable for stakeholder management, executive updates, and overall engagement credibility

 - Owns commercial delivery: tracks the fixed-fee, milestone-based billing structure per workstream, validates deliverables against defined scope before milestone sign-off, and gates invoicing on client acceptance

 - Takes part in final architecture calls on the multi-model gateway design and ensures it''s built to the same examiner-ready evidence standard the governance workstream.


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