Senior AI Architect & Delivery Leader

Berkeley Research Group; New York (NY); On-site; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Berkeley Research Group is launching a new Financial Institution Operations & Technology practice. You will design production AI services, translate banking operations into governed workflows, and deliver reusable assets and roadmaps.

The role targets Managing or Senior Managing Consultants with strong Python delivery, RAG workflows, model integrations, and CI/CD practices. Travel to client sites is required. Preferred locations: New York, Chicago, Washington, D.C., Dallas, and Boston.

Qualifications

• Minimum 5 years of prior applicable work experience for Managing Consultant level; 7+ years for Sr. Managing Consultant.
• Senior, hands-on delivery of AI applications from architecture to production implementation.
• Strong Python engineering skills with tested services, model integrations, tool interfaces, and APIs.
• Experience with RAG and agentic workflows; ability to discuss trade-offs in retrieval, orchestration, state management, tools, and oversight.
• Security and governance controls for AI systems, including defenses against prompt injection and data exposure.
• Experience deploying AI services in cloud, containers, CI/CD, versioning, monitoring, and rollback.

Responsibilities

• Lead AI architecture and engineering workstreams; design solution plans with clear automation boundaries.
• Implement production AI services in Python; integrate models, retrieval, rules, tools, and APIs with client data.
• Design and test RAG and agentic workflows with source grounding and escalation paths.
• Collaborate with vendor partners and domain experts to frame solutions and compare capabilities.
• Define evaluation datasets and acceptance criteria; test retrieval quality, task accuracy, and safety.
• Apply MLOps practices for versioning, testing, deployment, and observability.
• Mentor engineers and lead technical reviews; validate adoption and benefits.
• Capture expert decision patterns for reusable workflows and future pursuits.

Skills

Python engineering

AI architecture

Hands-on delivery

RAG workflows

Model integrations

CI/CD

Security governance

Mentoring engineers

Job description

Berkeley Research Group is launching a new Financial Institution Operations & Technology practice. You will design production AI services, translate banking operations into governed workflows, and deliver reusable assets and roadmaps.

The role targets Managing or Senior Managing Consultants with strong Python delivery, RAG workflows, model integrations, and CI/CD practices. Travel to client sites is required. Preferred locations: New York, Chicago, Washington, D.C., Dallas, and Boston.