Technical Lead - AI Product Development

About the job:

We are seeking a highly skilled Technical Lead - AI Product Development to lead the design, development, and delivery of innovative AI-powered solutions for a leading banking client. This role combines deep technical expertise in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning with strong leadership, client engagement, and product development experience.

The ideal candidate will serve as the technical authority for AI initiatives, guiding cross-functional teams through the full product lifecycle while ensuring alignment with business objectives, regulatory requirements, and enterprise architecture standards. This individual will partner closely with stakeholders across technology, business, risk, compliance, and data teams to deliver scalable AI solutions that enhance customer experience, operational efficiency, risk management, and decision-making.

What you will do at Sogeti:

Leadership & Strategy

-Lead the architecture, design, and development of enterprise-scale AI and Machine Learning solutions for banking and financial services clients.

-Provide technical leadership to teams of AI/ML Engineers, Data Scientists, Software Engineers, Product Owners, and Business Analysts.

-Define AI product roadmaps, technical standards, development methodologies, and best practices.

-Collaborate with client stakeholders to translate business requirements into technical solutions.

-Mentor and coach engineering teams on AI technologies, model development, deployment strategies, and MLOps practices.

AI Product Development

-Drive end-to-end delivery of AI products from ideation, proof of concept, and MVP through production deployment and support.

-Design and implement Generative AI, Large Language Model (LLM), Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing (NLP), and predictive analytics solutions.

-Evaluate and recommend AI frameworks, tools, and platforms to support business objectives.

-Build scalable AI architectures leveraging cloud-native technologies and modern engineering practices.

-Establish AI governance frameworks addressing explain ability, fairness, bias mitigation, and model monitoring.

Technical Architecture & Engineering

-Design and develop API-driven and microservices-based AI solutions.

-Lead integration of AI platforms with banking applications, data ecosystems, and enterprise systems.

-Establish CI/CD pipelines, automated testing practices, and MLOps frameworks.

-Ensure solutions meet security, performance, scalability, and regulatory requirements.

-Conduct architecture reviews, code reviews, and technical assessments.

Banking & Regulatory Compliance

-Ensure AI solutions comply with banking regulations, data privacy requirements, and enterprise risk standards.

-Partner with risk management and compliance teams to implement model governance and validation controls.

-Support audit, model risk management, and regulatory review processes related to AI implementations.

Stakeholder Management

-Present technical concepts and AI strategies to executive leadership and client stakeholders.

-Collaborate with business leaders to identify AI use cases and prioritize opportunities based on business value.

-Act as the primary technical advisor for AI initiatives across multiple client engagements.

What you will bring:

Required Qualifications

Education

-Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Data Science, Engineering, or related field.

-Master's degree in Artificial Intelligence, Data Science, Computer Science, or related discipline preferred.

Experience

-8+ years of software engineering and application development experience.

-5+ years of experience developing AI/ML solutions in enterprise environments.

-3+ years of technical leadership or architecture experience leading engineering teams.

-Experience delivering AI products within Banking, Financial Services, FinTech, or highly regulated industries.

-Previous experience within an IT Consulting or Professional Services organization strongly preferred.

Technical Skills

-Strong experience with Python and AI/ML frameworks such as TensorFlow, PyTorch, Scikit-Learn, LangChain, or similar.

-Experience with Generative AI platforms, Large Language Models (Open AI, Azure Open AI, Anthropic, Gemini, etc..).

-Expertise in cloud platforms including Azure, AWS, or Google Cloud.

-Experience with vector data bases, RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) architectures, and prompt engineering.

-Strong knowledge of MLOps tools and practices.

-Experience with containerization technologies including Docker and Kubernetes.

-Knowledge of data engineering, big data technologies, and enterprise integration patterns.

-Proficiency with REST APIs, microservices, and event-driven architectures.

Banking Domain Knowledge

-Understanding of banking operations, payments, lending, fraud detection, risk management, compliance, AML, KYC, or customer experience platforms.

-Familiarity with regulatory and security requirements within financial services environments.

Preferred Qualifications

-Experience implementing AI solutions in areas such as:

-Fraud Detection

-Credit Risk Assessment

-Customer Service Automation

-Intelligent Document Processing

-Financial Forecasting

-Conversational AI

-Regulatory Compliance Automation

-Cloud certifications (Azure AI Engineer, AWS Machine Learning Specialty, Google Professional Machine Learning Engineer).

-Experience with Agile/Scrum delivery methodologies.

-Exposure to Responsible AI and AI governance frameworks.

Key Competencies

-Technical Leadership

-AI/ML Architecture

-Product Development

-Client Consulting

-Strategic Thinking

-Executive Communication

-Stakeholder Management

-Problem Solving

-Innovation Mindset

-Team Mentorship

-Risk & Compliance Awareness

Life at Sogeti - Sogeti supports all aspects of your well-being throughout the changing stages of your life and career. For eligible employees, we offer:

-Flexible work options

-401(k) with 150% match up to6%

-Employee Share Ownership Plan

-Medical, Prescription, Dental& Vision Insurance

-Life Insurance

-100% Company-Paid Mobile Phone Plan

-3 Weeks PTO + 7 Paid Holidays

-Paid Parental Leave

-Adoption, Surrogacy &Cryopreservation Assistance

-Subsidized Back-up Child/Elder Care & Tutoring

-Career Planning &Coaching

-$5,250 Tuition Reimbursement& 20,000+ Online Courses

-Employee Resource Groups

-Counseling & Support for Physical, Financial, Emotional & Spiritual Well-being

-Disaster Relief Programs

About Sogeti

Part of the Capgemini Group, Sogeti makes business value through technology for organizations that need to implement innovation at speed and want a local partner with global scale. With a hands-on culture and close proximity to its clients, Sogeti implements solutions that will help organizations work faster, better, and smarter. By combining its agility and speed of implementation through a DevOps approach, Sogeti delivers innovative solutions in quality engineering, cloud and application development, all driven by AI, data and automation.

Become Your Best | www.sogeti.us

Disclaimer

Capgemini is an Equal Opportunity Employer encouraging diversity in the workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, national origin, gender identity/expression, age, religion, disability, sexual orientation, genetics, veteran status, marital status or any other characteristic protected by law.

This is a general description of the Duties, Responsibilities and Qualifications required for this position. Physical, mental, sensory or environmental demands may be referenced in an attempt to communicate the manner in which this position traditionally is performed. Whenever necessary to provide individuals with disabilities an equal employment opportunity, Capgemini will consider reasonable accommodations that might involve varying job requirements and/or changing the way this job is performed, provided that such accommodations do not pose an undue hardship.

Capgemini is committed to providing reasonable accommodation during our recruitment process. If you need assistance or accommodation, please reach out to your recruiting contact.

Please be aware that Capgemini may capture your image (video or screenshot) during the interview process and that image may be used for verification, including during the hiring and onboarding process.

Click the following link for more information on your rights as an Applicant http://www.capgemini.com/resources/equal-employment-opportunity-is-the-law

Applicants for employment in the US must have valid work authorization that does not now and/or will not in the future require sponsorship of a visa for employment authorization in the US by Capgemini.

Capgemini discloses salary range information in compliance with state and local pay transparency obligations. The disclosed range represents the lowest to highest salary we, in good faith, believe we would pay for this role at the time of this posting, although we may ultimately pay more or less than the disclosed range, and the range may be modified in the future. The disclosed range takes into account the wide range of factors that are considered in making compensation decisions including, but not limited to, geographic location, relevant education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, seniority, performance, sales or revenue-based metrics, and business or organizational needs. At Capgemini, it is not typical for an individual to be hired at or near the top of the range for their role.

This role may be eligible for other compensation including variable compensation, bonus, or commission. Full time regular employees are eligible for paid time off, medical/dental/vision insurance, 401(k), and any other benefits to eligible employees.

Note: No amount of pay is considered to be wages or compensation until such amount is earned, vested, and determinable. The amount and availability of any bonus, commission, or any other form of compensation that are allocable to a particular employee remains in the Company's sole discretion unless and until paid and may be modified at the Company-s sole discretion, consistent with the law.

Life at Sogeti - Sogeti supports all aspects of your well-being throughout the changing stages of your life and career. For eligible employees, we offer:

• Flexible work options

• 401(k) with 150% match up to 6%

• Employee Share Ownership Plan

• Medical, Prescription, Dental & Vision Insurance

• Life Insurance

• 100% Company-Paid Mobile Phone Plan

• 3 Weeks PTO + 7 Paid Holidays

• Paid Parental Leave

• Adoption, Surrogacy & Cryopreservation Assistance

• Subsidized Back-up Child/Elder Care & Tutoring

• Career Planning & Coaching

• $5,250 Tuition Reimbursement & 20,000+ Online Courses

• Employee Resource Groups

• Counseling & Support for Physical, Financial, Emotional & Spiritual Well-being

• Disaster Relief Programs

About Sogeti

Part of the Capgemini Group, Sogeti makes business value through technology for organizations that need to implement innovation at speed and want a local partner with global scale. With a hands-on culture and close proximity to its clients, Sogeti implements solutions that will help organizations work faster, better, and smarter. By combining its agility and speed of implementation through a DevOps approach, Sogeti delivers innovative solutions in quality engineering, cloud and application development, all driven by AI, data and automation.

Become Your Best | www.sogeti.us

Disclaimer

Capgemini is an Equal Opportunity Employer encouraging diversity in the workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, national origin, gender identity/expression, age, religion, disability, sexual orientation, genetics, veteran status, marital status or any other characteristic protected by law.

This is a general description of the Duties, Responsibilities and Qualifications required for this position. Physical, mental, sensory or environmental demands may be referenced in an attempt to communicate the manner in which this position traditionally is performed. Whenever necessary to provide individuals with disabilities an equal employment opportunity, Capgemini will consider reasonable accommodations that might involve varying job requirements and/or changing the way this job is performed, provided that such accommodations do not pose an undue hardship.

Capgemini is committed to providing reasonable accommodation during our recruitment process. If you need assistance or accommodation, please reach out to your recruiting contact.

Please be aware that Capgemini may capture your image (video or screenshot) during the interview process and that image may be used for verification, including during the hiring and onboarding process.

Click the following link for more information on your rights as an Applicant http://www.capgemini.com/resources/equal-employment-opportunity-is-the-law

Applicants for employment in the US must have valid work authorization that does not now and/or will not in the future require sponsorship of a visa for employment authorization in the US by Capgemini.

Capgemini discloses salary range information in compliance with state and local pay transparency obligations. The disclosed range represents the lowest to highest salary we, in good faith, believe we would pay for this role at the time of this posting, although we may ultimately pay more or less than the disclosed range, and the range may be modified in the future. The disclosed range takes into account the wide range of factors that are considered in making compensation decisions including, but not limited to, geographic location, relevant education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, seniority, performance, sales or revenue-based metrics, and business or organizational needs. At Capgemini, it is not typical for an individual to be hired at or near the top of the range for their role.

This role may be eligible for other compensation including variable compensation, bonus, or commission. Full time regular employees are eligible for paid time off, medical/dental/vision insurance, 401(k), and any other benefits to eligible employees.

Note: No amount of pay is considered to be wages or compensation until such amount is earned, vested, and determinable. The amount and availability of any bonus, commission, or any other form of compensation that are allocable to a particular employee remains in the Company's sole discretion unless and until paid and may be modified at the Company-s sole discretion, consistent with the law.

Sogeti is an Equal Opportunity Employer encouraging diversity in the workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, national origin, gender identity/expression, age, religion, disability, sexual orientation, genetics, veteran status, marital status or any other characteristic protected by law.