Job Description: Job Description: Delivery Lead - AI Engineer

Experience:12+ years

Role Summary

Key Responsibilities
- Lead end-to-end delivery of AI, data engineering, and cloud-based transformation engagements.
- Drive client engagement by understanding business priorities, managing expectations, presenting solutions, and ensuring timely resolution of risks and issues.
- Provide technical and delivery leadership across AI/ML, GenAI, data platforms, cloud, and enterprise architecture initiatives.
- Own delivery planning, execution tracking, governance, quality, and stakeholder reporting for complex programs.
- Collaborate with business stakeholders, architects, product owners, engineering teams, and leadership to define solution roadmaps and execution plans.
- Guide teams in designing scalable, secure, and cost-effective AI and data solutions aligned with enterprise standards.
- Mentor, manage, and develop engineering teams to ensure delivery excellence and continuous capability improvement.
- Promote best practices across AI engineering, data engineering, DevOps, automation,



performance optimization, and compliance.

Required Skills:
- 12+ years of overall experience in AI engineering, data engineering, cloud technologies, data platforms, or enterprise technology delivery.
- Strong experience leading AI engagements, client-facing delivery programs, and cross-functional engineering teams.
- Hands-on understanding of AI/ML concepts, GenAI solutions, automation use cases, model integration, and AI-enabled engineering practices.
- Strong knowledge of contemporary data platforms such as Databricks, Snowflake, Data Lakes, Data Warehouses, and Lakehouse architectures.
- Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or GCP.
- Strong understanding of Python, SQL, Spark, PySpark, ETL/ELT pipelines, orchestration, and large-scale data processing.
- Experience in delivery governance, risk management, stakeholder reporting, estimation, planning, and quality assurance.
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