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As the App Dev Senior Tech Lead Analyst, you will be responsible for the technical vision, architecture, and execution of this greenfield platform. You will lead a world‑class engineering team from the ground up while remaining deeply technical and contributing to the core development of the platform. This is a unique opportunity to blend strategic leadership with hands‑on engineering to build a product that will have a direct and measurable impact on the front lines of our business.

• Platform Architecture & Development: Lead the design, architecture, and hands‑on development of a scalable, secure, and resilient agentic AI platform from concept to production.
• Technical Leadership & Hands‑On Engineering: Serve as the lead engineer and technical authority, guiding critical decisions on frameworks, technologies, and infrastructure. Write code, build prototypes, and lead by example.
• Strategic Roadmapping: Partner closely with product management and senior business leaders in banking to define product strategy and technical roadmap. Translate complex business needs into elegant technical solutions.
• Cross‑Functional Collaboration: Partner effectively with horizontal AI platform teams, enterprise architecture, and external vendor partners to leverage existing capabilities, influence roadmaps, and accelerate delivery.
• AI & ML Integration: Drive the strategy for integrating and operationalizing Large Language Models (LLMs), agentic frameworks (e.g., Google ADK, LangChain) and other AI/ML technologies to solve real‑world banking challenges.
• Operational Excellence: Implement and champion best‑in‑class engineering practices, including CI/CD, automated testing, infrastructure‑as‑code, and robust monitoring to ensure enterprise‑grade reliability.
• Business Impact: Define, measure, and report on key performance indicators (KPIs) related to platform adoption, user productivity, and the ultimate impact on business outcomes such as wallet share growth.
• Compliance & Security: Ensure the platform adheres to the highest standards of data privacy, security, and regulatory compliance required in the banking industry.

• Education: Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field.
• Experience: 10+ years of software engineering experience, with at least 4+ years in a leadership role leading high‑performing engineering teams.
• Hands‑On Leader: Proven experience as a "player‑coach" who can lead from the front, contribute to the codebase, and mentor junior and senior engineers.
• Platform Building: Strong track record of designing, building, and launching scalable, distributed, cloud‑native platforms from the ground up.
• Domain Knowledge: Experience in the financial services industry (Corporate Banking, Investment Banking, FinTech) is a significant plus. Understanding of banking workflows and data is highly desirable.
• Communication Skills: Exceptional ability to communicate complex technical concepts to non‑technical stakeholders and to articulate a clear technical vision that aligns with business goals.

• AI / GenAI / Agentic AI
  • LLM & Agentic Frameworks: Deep expertise in building production‑grade agentic systems using GCP as primary (ADK, Vertex AI)
  • Multi‑Agent Systems: Hands‑on experience designing and implementing multi‑agent architectures (task decomposition, coordination, orchestration, and agent‑to‑agent interaction patterns)
  • Model Context Protocol (MCP) & Integrations: Experience integrating agents with enterprise tools and data sources using MCP or equivalent context‑sharing patterns
  • Knowledge Graphs & Reasoning: Building and leveraging knowledge graphs for context enrichment, reasoning, and workflow automation
  • RAG & Knowledge Systems: End‑to‑end RAG pipelines using enterprise search + vector stores (e.g., Elastic, Pinecone) with grounding, evaluation, and optimization
  • Model Lifecycle & Governance: Model evaluation, monitoring, prompt/version control, and Responsible AI / MRM compliance
• Enterprise AI Integration & Data
  • API‑ and event‑driven integration of AI into enterprise workflows
  • Data platforms: Databricks, Spark, Snowflake; streaming via Kafka
• Backend & Distributed Systems
  • Languages: Python (expert), Java/Spring Boot (enterprise standard), Go (plus)
  • Architecture: Microservices, domain‑driven design, event‑driven systems
  • APIs & Integration: REST/gRPC; Apigee, Kong
  • Data & Messaging: PostgreSQL/Oracle, MongoDB/Cassandra, Kafka
• Cloud & DevSecOps
  • Containers: Docker, Kubernetes (GKE/EKS)
  • IaC: Terraform
  • CI/CD: GitHub Actions, Jenkins
  • Observability: Splunk, ELK, Prometheus, Grafana

Primary Location: Tampa, Florida, United States
Time Type: Full time
Salary Range: $141,440.00 - $212,160.00

• Competitive healthcare coverage (medical, dental, vision)
• 401(k) plan with company match
• Life, accident, and disability insurance
• Wellness programs
• Paid time off: vacation, sick leave, holidays

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