Technology Leader

Job Description:

The Role:

Launch is actively seeking a passionate and highly skilled Technology Leader with deep experience in data architecture cloud engineering and AI/ML enablement. This individual should have a strong background in spearheading technology initiatives in a consulting this pivotal role you will help shape technology roadmaps lead strategic engagements and architect cloud-native solutions focused on data platforms analytics and AI. Youll also play a hands-on role in technical pre-sales solution development and delivery risk management while mentoring delivery teams and guiding client engagements. This is a highly visible leadership role requiring a unique mix of technical depth business acumen and client relationship-building.

Responsibilities:

• Lead client conversations focused on data-driven solutions AI enablement and cloud platform design

• Guide discovery architecture and development of world-class data and AI solutions across a broad range of technologies and design patterns

• Collaborate with business and technical stakeholders to translate business needs into scalable secure technical solutions

• Develop data strategy roadmaps proposals and statements of work aligned to client business goals

• Design architectures leveraging cloud-native data platforms data pipelines MLOps practices and AI services

• Partner with other technology leaders to shape complex cross-functional transformation programs

• Provide program-level architecture oversight and technical quality assurance across client delivery teams

• Support internal knowledge sharing and contribute to the development of reusable frameworks and IP

• Mentor engineers and architects fostering a culture of technical excellence innovation and delivery quality

• Communicate complex concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences including executive leadership

• Author or review technical documentation architecture artifacts and reusable design assets

• Stay current with industry trends in data AI and cloud computing and contribute to Launch thought leadership

Required Qualifications:

• 12 years of relevant work experience in technology consulting architecture or engineering roles

• Proven experience designing and leading data platform analytics or AI/ML solutions in the cloud

• Strong delivery experience in at Azure public cloud platform

• Experience in regulated industries; financial services strongly preferred

• Strong understanding of cloud data architecture including data lakes lakehouses streaming and batch pipelines

• Proficiency in data security compliance frameworks and governance best practices

• Demonstrated success developing technical roadmaps and solution architectures aligned to business objectives

• Ability to scope and estimate projects define resourcing plans and guide execution from strategy to delivery

• Excellent communication skills; able to engage C-level stakeholders and technical teams alike

• Comfortable leading conversations across disciplinesengineering product data science and business

Preferred Qualifications:

• Prior consulting experience with financial services clients (banking insurance capital markets)

• Familiarity with data privacy laws and regulatory frameworks like SOX GLBA PCI or GDPR

• Experience designing event-driven architectures (e.g. Kafka Event Hubs) and real-time data pipelines

• Familiarity with AI/ML model lifecycle management feature stores and MLOps platforms

• Hands-on experience with infrastructure-as-code (IaC) and CI/CD in data and AI environments

• Familiarity with GenAI tools foundation models and integration of LLMs into business use cases

• Strong communication experience including technical evangelism thought leadership or speaking at meetups/conferences

• Kubernetes and container orchestration experience

• Background in secure solution design observability and platform monitoring

Education & Certifications:

• Bachelors or Masters degree in Computer Science Data Science Engineering or related field

• Cloud certifications (Azure) preferred especially those related to data architecture or AI engineering

Compensation & Benefits:

As an employee at Launch you will grow your skills and experience through a variety of exciting project work (across industries and technologies) with some of the top companies in the world! Our employees receive full benefitsmedical dental vision short-term disability long-term disability life insurance and matched 401k. We also have an uncapped take-what-you-need PTO policy. The anticipated wage range for this role is $200000-$230000. Education and experience will be highly considered and we are happy to discuss your wage expectations in more detail throughout our internal interview process.

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