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Job Summary:
Deloitte is a leading consulting firm focused on transforming the nature of work through innovative solutions. They are seeking an AI Data Engineer - Manager to lead data architecture and engineering delivery for AI/ML/GenAI solutions, ensuring data integrity and scalability while managing a team and collaborating with various stakeholders.
Responsibilities:
• Lead the data architecture and engineering delivery that enables AI/ML/GenAI solutions, ensuring data is trusted, secure, observable, and scalable from ingestion through consumption.
• Design and operationalize modern data and retrieval foundations to support LLM-powered applications (e.g., Claude, GPT/Codex, Gemini) including patterns such as RAG, embeddings, vector search, and governed access to structured and unstructured data.
• Manage day-to-day delivery with an onshore/offshore team, partnering with data science, ML engineering, and product stakeholders to translate use cases into production-ready pipelines and platforms with strong data governance, lineage, quality controls, and monitoring.
• Help define the AI/ML/GenAI technical direction and vision, ensuring alignment with strategic goals and digital transformation efforts.
• Translate the vision of business leaders into realistic technical implementations, while identifying misaligned initiatives and impractical use cases.
• Design end-to-end AI architectures, from data ingestion to model deployment, integrating with cloud and on-premises systems.
• Select appropriate technologies from a pool of open-source and commercial offerings, considering deployment models and integration with existing tools.
• Understand and contribute to MLOps and LLMOps, focusing on operational capabilities and infrastructure to deploy and manage machine learning models and large language models.
• Conduct research to provide technical solutions to scale AI/ML powered features for real-world challenges, making trade-offs based on quality, scalability, performance, and cost.
• Lead the development of AI models (e.g., machine learning, natural language processing, computer vision) and implement scalable AI solutions.
• Collaborate with Enterprise, Application, Data & DevOps teams, Data scientists, Machine Learning & GenAI Engineers, and Business teams to pilot use cases and discuss best design.
• Gather inputs from multiple stakeholders to align technical implementation with existing and future requirements.
• Serve as a technical advisor to leadership, providing insights on AI trends, potential business impacts, and implementation best practices.
• Be responsible for the successful execution of AI-powered applications using agile methodology.
• Audit AI tools and practices across data, models and software engineering, focusing on continuous improvement and feedback mechanisms.
• Contribute to standardizing CI/CD pipelines, user and service roles, and container creation, model consumption, testing, and deployment methodology based on business and security requirements.
• Work closely with security and risk leaders to foresee and mitigate risks, ensuring ethical AI implementation and compliance with upcoming regulations.
• Address potential issues such as training data poisoning, AI model theft, and adversarial samples.
• Help AI product managers and business stakeholders understand the potential and limitations of AI when planning new products.
• Break down client problems and bring an understanding of leading technology, analytics methods, tools, and operating model approaches.
• Build tools and capabilities that assist with data ingestion, feature engineering, data management, and organization.
• Design, implement, and maintain distributed computing solutions for data processing and model training, ensuring the security, scalability, and reliability of machine learning infrastructure.
Qualifications:
Required:
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Statistics, Data Science, Information Systems or related field.
• 6+ years of consulting experience leading delivery teams, including onshore and offshore team members
• 6+ years of experience gathering non-functional requirements and defining application architecture frameworks, including validation and testing deliverables
• 5+ years of experience working in an AI environment
• 5+ years of experience translating requirements into client ready design documents
• 5+ years of experience in software application architecture analysis, design, and delivery
• 5+ years of experience executing full system development life cycle implementations
• Ability to travel 0-25%, on average, based on the work you do and the clients and industries/sectors you serve.
• Limited immigration sponsorship may be available.
Preferred:
• Advanced degrees such as Masters or PhD are preferred
• Certifications in AI/ML technologies and Cloud platforms, such as AWS Certified Machine Learning - Specialty, Google Cloud Professional Machine Learning Engineer, Azure AI Engineer, Azure Data Scientist, or Azure Solutions Architect
• 5 + years of experience in Data Science, Statistics, and Machine Learning
• 5+ years of experience in Generative AI/LLMs, preferably experienced in delivering and productionizing
• 5+ years of experience in machine learning model development, natural language processing, and data analysis; Experienced in Supervised and Unsupervised learning, feature engineering, model training, and deployment
• 5+ year of experience in implementing cloud-based AI/ML workloads on any of AWS, Microsoft and Azure.
Company:
Deloitte is a business consulting company that offers audit, consulting, financial advisory, and tax services. Founded in 1845, the company is headquartered in London, GBR, with a team of 10001+ employees. The company is currently Late Stage.