Senior Manager, FDE/Delivery & Operations Lead, A2O
Core
Senior leadership role owning flagship client engagements and the end-to-end management of the Financial Data Engineer (FDE) bench for AI/ML delivery in regulated industries.
Role type
Senior Manager, Delivery & Operations Lead (Hands-on IC with leadership)
Builds
Production AI, data, and technology solutions for banking, insurance, and regulated sectors
Domain
Financial Services / Regulated Industries / AI & Data
Deliverable
production ML models
Required skills
Technical leadership of multidisciplinary data/AI teams, end-to-end delivery ownership (PoC to production), bench management and staffing, margin tracking, stakeholder management in client pursuits, fluency in lakehouse/streaming/event-driven architectures, RAG and agentic AI systems, MLOps/LLMOps/DataOps
Preferred skills
Experience with Azure AI Foundry, Microsoft Fabric, Databricks, Azure OpenAI, AWS Bedrock, SageMaker, GCP Vertex AI, LLMs, RAG architectures, AI agents, MLflow, Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD, EU regulatory landscape (GDPR, EU AI Act, DORA, AMLR), Agile/Scrum/SAFe credentials, German/French/Spanish
Technologies
Azure AI Foundry, Microsoft Fabric, Databricks, Azure OpenAI, Azure ML, AWS Bedrock, SageMaker, GCP Vertex AI, BigQuery, MLflow, Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD, vector databases
Responsibilities
Lead tech lead/FDE on 1-2 flagship accounts through full build lifecycle, own PoC-to-production transition and quality gates, manage FDE bench sourcing/onboarding/upskilling/retention, allocate shared engineering pool across engagements, forecast resourcing needs, track engagement margins, integrate reusable accelerator library into live engagements, provide technical due diligence for RFPs
Seniority
Senior Manager, hands-on IC with team leadership
