AI Architect

Description

The company is a global consulting firm that helps businesses adopt digital technology across artificial intelligence, consulting, digital, cloud and DevOps, data, and software engineering, with financial services and technology firms as its main clients.

Its financial innovation labs research and build solutions such as AI, blockchain, data science models, digital underwriting, and mobile-first applications. The company has operated for over 20 years, employs more than 17,000 people, and has 58 offices in 22 countries.

This role sets up and runs the governance, planning, financial management, delivery coordination, and executive reporting needed to scale AI across the enterprise. You will turn the multi-year AI strategy into a connected portfolio of initiatives, set consistent delivery standards, manage dependencies and risks, and give leadership clear visibility of progress, spending, value, adoption, and control readiness.

Responsibilities

• Set up and run the enterprise AI program office, covering governance, reporting rhythm, delivery standards, dependency tracking, escalation paths, and decision forums.
• Turn the multi-year AI strategy into an integrated plan with workstreams, accountable owners, milestones, dependencies, required inputs, and measurable outcomes.
• Keep one enterprise view of roadmap progress, risks, issues, actions, decisions, dependencies, resource limits, and executive follow-ups.
• Run AI use-case intake so every proposal records its business objective, sponsor, expected value, feasibility, delivery approach, control needs, and funding.
• Organize prioritization discussions so leaders can compare use cases on strategic value, readiness, complexity, cost, delivery capacity, risk, and expected adoption.
• Work with business transformation leads and workstream owners to turn approved use cases into project plans, milestones, acceptance criteria, and success metrics.
• Support milestone-based funding across approval, proof of value, scale-up, and transition to business as usual, working with Finance and initiative owners.
• Work with the CFO organization and Controllers to check assumptions, baselines, savings, realized outcomes, and ongoing investment performance.
• Produce portfolio views for senior leaders showing investment, forecast, value at risk, realized benefits, adoption, and expected returns.
• Align technical, business, and control owners across cross-functional AI workstreams and pods around shared plans, milestones, and outcomes.
• Maintain integrated project plans, timelines, milestone trackers, RAID logs, dependency maps, action registers, and escalation items for the program.
• Run structured delivery cadences, identify blockers early, drive follow-ups to resolution, and make sure owners have the inputs and decisions they need.
• Track program budget, forecast, resource assumptions, funding approvals, and financial reporting inputs with Technology Finance and workstream owners.
• Work with FinOps and Technology Finance to make compute, token consumption, infrastructure, licenses, vendor, and consulting costs transparent.
• Report committed spend, utilization, run rate, forecast variance, and cost risks, and show how spending links to approved use cases and business outcomes.
• Work with security, data governance, privacy, legal, compliance, model risk, architecture, and audit partners to build required controls into the program lifecycle.
• Make sure initiatives pass defined control gates with documentation, approvals, evidence, and traceability.
• Maintain program-level risk reporting and escalate material control issues, decisions, and remediation actions through the right forums.
• Write concise, decision-focused status reports for the CIO, CFO, enterprise AI leadership, steering forums, QBRs, and other senior governance settings.
• Run working sessions and leadership forums, record decisions and actions, confirm owners, track deadlines, and escalate where needed.
• Act as the central point for program status, priorities, risks, dependencies, escalations, and accountability across business, technology, and corporate functions.
• Work with Change and Training leaders to build communications, role-based enablement, safe-use guidance, feedback loops, and adoption measures into funded initiatives.
• Support divisional champion models and build local ownership of outcomes, utilization, workflow change, and lasting business impact.
• Run launch and scale readiness reviews to confirm capabilities can be adopted safely and sustainably.

Requirements

• Significant experience supporting or managing large-scale technology, AI, digital transformation, or strategic programs in financial services or another complex, regulated environment.
• A record of bringing structure to complex or changing programs through integrated plans, governance routines, RAID management, stakeholder forums, milestone tracking, and executive reporting.
• Solid grasp of program delivery, portfolio management, business cases, prioritization, financial governance, benefits realization, risk management, and organizational change.
• Ability to influence senior business, technology, finance, and control leaders without relying on formal authority.
• Excellent written, verbal, financial, commercial, and executive communication, including producing concise, decision-ready materials.
• Experience running AI, automation, digital transformation, data, platform, infrastructure, or innovation programs in investment banking, capital markets, or wider financial services.
• Familiarity with enterprise AI operating models, responsible AI, model and data controls, FinOps, consumption-based technology costs, and regulated technology environments.
• Working knowledge of AI delivery concepts such as use-case lifecycle management, model and data dependencies, production readiness, responsible AI controls, evaluation, adoption tracking, and post-implementation monitoring.
• Experience with scaled product delivery, cross-functional pods, use-case lifecycle governance, and moving from pilot to production.

Conditions

In line with legal requirements, the base salary for this role in New York, NY is $140k to $160k per year, plus benefits.

The base salary varies by geography and other factors.

The company is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer and makes employment decisions based on business needs, job requirements, and individual qualifications.

Benefits

• Highly competitive compensation and benefits package.
• Possibility to work abroad within a multinational organization with 58 offices in 22 countries.
• 10 days of paid annual leave, plus sick leave and national holidays.
• Maternity and paternity leave plans.
• Medical, dental, vision, life insurance, and long-term and short-term disability cover, with plans varying by region.
• Retirement savings plans.
• A policy supporting higher education certification.
• Commuter benefits, varying by region.
• Training focused on skills, substantive knowledge, and personal development.
• On-demand access to an online course library with more than 5000 curated courses, free for all employees.
• Coaching from experienced colleagues in the company's financial innovation labs and centers of excellence.
• Work on cutting-edge projects for leading tier-one banks, financial institutions, and insurance firms.
• A flat, approachable organization with a diverse, friendly, and global culture.
• Flexible workplace arrangements, mentoring, internal mobility, and learning and development programs.