Senior Lead AI

Immediate need for a talented Senior Lead AI. This is a 12 months contract opportunity with long-term potential and is located in Charlotte, NC(Onsite). Please review the job description below and contact me ASAP if you are interested.

Job ID: 26-14036

Pay Range: $65/hr - $70/hour.  Employee benefits include, but are not limited to, health insurance (medical, dental, vision), 401(k) plan, and paid sick leave (depending on work location).

Key Responsibilities:

• Go to Market
• Lead platform releases, feature rollouts, and adoption initiatives in partnership with product and engineering teams.
• Architect and execute go to market strategies spanning onboarding, training, documentation, and ongoing support.
• Customer Enablement & Training
• Conduct workshops, office hours, and hands on pair programming while maintaining self service resources (SDKs, guides, playbooks) to drive adoption and reduce time to value.
• Create scalable enablement assets and tailor training approaches based on a deep understanding of customer workflows and pain points.
• Solution Strategy & Feedback Loop
• Establish tight feedback loops with end users to surface insights that shape roadmap direction, influence implementation, and drive usability improvements.
• Translate business problems into actionable solution architectures – partnering with platform teams on patterns, reusable accelerators, acceptance criteria, and reference architectures to standardize solution delivery.
• Stay current with industry trends in MLOps/LLMOps, GenAI, agentic frameworks, and cloud optimization.
• Stakeholder Relationship & Communication
• Build trusted relationships across business stakeholders and product teams, acting as a technical advisor who bridges strategy and execution.
• Communicate complex technical concepts clearly and produce executive ready updates, metrics, and narratives that support informed decision making.
• Governance, Security & Compliance
• Ensure alignment with responsible AI practices, model governance, data protection requirements, and platform security controls.
• Contribute documentation for validation, testing, approvals, and audit readiness in collaboration with risk, compliance, and security teams.

Key Requirements and Technology Experience: 

• Key skills; AI/ML solution, Bigquery, MLOps/LLMOps, GenAI, agentic frameworks, and cloud optimization.
• 4+ years of Artificial Intelligence experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education
• 3+ years across product/solution management, program delivery, or technical product ownership for AI/ML platforms, or cloud-native solutions.
• 3+ years hands-on with cloud technologies (GCP, or Azure) and container orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes/OpenShift).
• 5+ years across the AI/ML lifecycle: data management, feature engineering, model development, deployment, monitoring/observability, and model risk/governance.
• Experience in large enterprise environments (regulated industries preferred) and building platforms at scale.
• Hands-on with GenAI and agentic AI (LLMs, diffusion models, RAG, tool use/agents); familiarity with OpenAI Azure, Hugging Face, LangChain/LangGraph, ADK, vector databases.
• Experience with MLOps/LLMOps tooling and practices (model registry, CI/CD, feature store, prompt/chain/versioning, evaluation, guardrails, monitoring).
• Strong communication skills with the ability to influence senior stakeholders and simplify complex technical topics
• Working knowledge of platform components and services such as Vertex AI, BigQuery, OpenShift, IBM CP4D, and large-scale distributed model execution platforms.
• Proven ability to create and implement executive-level roadmaps and dashboards demonstrating business impact and risk posture.
• Excellent technical depth with the ability to dive into APIs, SDKs, security controls, data contracts, and performance profiles.
• Strong negotiation, stakeholder engagement, and cross-functional leadership skills.

Our client is a leading Financial Industry, and we are currently interviewing to fill this and other similar contract positions. If you are interested in this position, please apply online for immediate consideration.

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