AI Strategy Lead - Financial Services & Insurance

EPAM Systems Inc; Chicago (IL); Remote; USD 200,000 - 250,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental and Vision Insurance

Health Savings Account

Flexible Spending Accounts

Disability Insurance

Life and AD&D Insurance

Employee Assistance Program

LinkedIn Learning access

401(k) matching

Paid Time Off 15-25 days

Paid Holidays 9

Job summary

EPAM Systems seeks an AI leader to drive innovation and delivery across its Financial Services and Insurance portfolio. You’ll oversee the full lifecycle of AI solutions from ideation to production, shaping strategy and leading multidisciplinary teams.

You will build capabilities in a fast-evolving market, mentor colleagues, and partner with clients to deliver high-impact results while navigating cloud platforms and regulatory considerations.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in data science leadership roles in financial services or related fields
• 5+ years in a leadership role with team management responsibilities
• Strong communication skills for diverse audiences
• Hands-on domain experience in CV, NLP, or time series analytics
• ML engineering and production delivery experience including MLOps and cloud platforms
• Knowledge of Databricks, Snowflake, or agentic orchestration tools
• Proficiency in at least one programming language, ideally Python
• Understanding of data science engineering and AI SDLC
• Consulting experience in a professional services environment
• Current AI leadership experience in financial services/insurance (nice to have)
• Papers/open-source contributions or talks in AI/ML space (nice to have)
• Cloud certifications (AWS/GCP/Azure/Databricks) (nice to have)
• Experience with regulatory processes and standards (nice to have)

Responsibilities

• Shape the AI, machine learning, and agentic vision and go-to-market offerings
• Manage end-to-end data science, AI, and agentic projects and programs
• Lead multidisciplinary workshops and design sessions with customers
• Develop high-quality proposals with subject matter experts and consultants
• Evolve data science, AI, and agentic offerings
• Grow team capacity, mentor members, and champion transformation with stakeholders

Skills

Data science leadership

ML leadership

Communication

Computer vision

Natural language processing

Time series

ML Ops

Python

SDLC for AI

Consulting

Tools

Databricks

Snowflake

LangChain

Omnigent

Semantic Kernel

Job description

EPAM Systems seeks an AI leader to drive innovation and delivery across its Financial Services and Insurance portfolio. You’ll oversee the full lifecycle of AI solutions from ideation to production, shaping strategy and leading multidisciplinary teams.

You will build capabilities in a fast-evolving market, mentor colleagues, and partner with clients to deliver high-impact results while navigating cloud platforms and regulatory considerations.