Senior AI Architect & Strategy Leader

McKinsey; New York (NY); Sur place; USD 255 000 - 258 000; Plein temps

Avantages offerts par ce poste

Competitive salary

Comprehensive benefits

Global collaboration

Résumé du poste

McKinsey & Company seeks a senior engineering leader to architect transformative software solutions and guide cross-functional teams across the US. You will own reference architectures, mentor engineers, and partner with client CTOs to shape scalable AI-enabled platforms.

Based in New York or the Bay Area, you will drive innovation, build reusable components, and advance the adoption of agentic AI across financial services engagements with global teams and partners.

Qualifications

• Advanced degree in a quantitative field or equivalent experience.
• 15+ years of relevant experience including technical leadership at Staff/Principal level.
• Experience leading cross-functional teams and growing 10–25 engineers for cloud-native SaaS.
• Proven ability to hire, mentor, and develop senior engineers with servant leadership.
• Deep experience with end-to-end product and software development lifecycles, including AI acceleration.
• Experience designing agentic solutions across frameworks and interfaces.
• Knowledge of data/knowledge layers for agents ( retrieval, ontologies, NL-to-SQL ).
• Strong architectural skills with reference architectures and ADRs, broad tech landscape awareness.
• Track record of building 0-to-1 products and managing external partners.
• Ability to shape client AI/agentic strategies and lead workshops and demos.
• Exceptional communication and stakeholder-management skills.

Responsabilités

• Lead cross-functional teams and architect transformative software solutions.
• Own reference architectures and technical decisions for scalable impact.
• Mentor talent, build technical relationships, and collaborate globally.
• Resolve complex problems, shape roadmaps, and foster a high-performing culture.
• Partner with Product, Design, and TechOps to refine processes and best practices.
• Own the technical relationship with client executives and shape AI roadmaps.

Connaissances

Technical leadership

Cross-functional leadership

Architectural design

Agentic AI knowledge

Stakeholder management

Effective communication

Formation

Advanced degree in quantitative field

Outils

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Description du poste

McKinsey & Company seeks a senior engineering leader to architect transformative software solutions and guide cross-functional teams across the US. You will own reference architectures, mentor engineers, and partner with client CTOs to shape scalable AI-enabled platforms.

Based in New York or the Bay Area, you will drive innovation, build reusable components, and advance the adoption of agentic AI across financial services engagements with global teams and partners.