AI ML Solution Architect & Developer Manager

AI ML Solution Architect & Developer Manager

The Protiviti Career provides opportunity to learn, inspire, and advance within a collaborative and inclusive culture. We hire curious individuals for whom learning is a passion. We lean into our mission: We Care. We Collaborate. We Deliver.

At every level, we champion leaders who live our values of integrity, inclusion, innovation, and commitment to success. Imagining our work as a journey, we believe integrity guides our way, inclusion moves us forward together, innovation creates new destinations, and our commitment to success empowers us to deliver on our vision to be the most trusted global consulting firm.

Where We Need You

Protiviti is looking for a Technology Consulting Manager to join our growing Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning (AI/ML) team.

What You Can Expect

Protiviti is an innovative global consultancy that provides transformative solutions across industries through its deep expertise in artificial intelligence. Protiviti works with clients to design AI that is innovative to drive optimal results, put transparent controls in place, and champion user adoption, ensuring that AI brings measurable value while maintaining the highest standards of safety and accountability.

As a Manager, you'll partner with our clients to solve complex business problems and provide impactful advice and solutions. You will develop lasting relationships with client personnel and further these relationships through quality product delivery. You will foster a network within the business community and serve as an ambassador of Protiviti in the market. You will also be a mentor, trainer, and coach to Consultants and Senior Consultants as you facilitate the successful completion of project work plans.

What Will Help You Be Successful

• You enjoy discussing technical and industry trends and seek opportunities to demonstrate AI technologies and enable both internal and external stakeholders.
• You are motivated to learn and interested in all things related to AI ML, including the latest trends and developments.
• You excel at using storytelling techniques to bring AI concepts and ideas to life, making complex technologies accessible, and engaging diverse audiences.
• You have an inherent interest in project management and team leadership.
• You promote a positive team culture that fosters open communication among all engagement team members.
• You create development opportunities for others, including participating in the creation and rollout of training, and ways for your team to improve our clients and communities.
• You participate in the initiation and development of new products and services.
• You understand the business environment and potential impact of Artificial Intelligence within industries.
• You have interest in working with a diverse portfolio of clients across multiple industries.

Do Your Talents Include the Following?

• Demonstrated experience with:
• Hands-on development of end-to-end AI solutions to solve complex business problems.
• Cloud services and infrastructure with platforms such as AWS, Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud.
• Have built or deployed systems powered by LLMs or generative models and understand how model behavior affects product experience.
• Proficiency in programming languages for AI development such as Python, R, or SQL, with experience in libraries/frameworks such as TensorFlow, PyTorch, Scikit-learn, Langchain, etc.
• Experience with big data technologies such as Hadoop and Spark.
• Implementing required security and privacy controls when developing AI-enabled prototypes, including proper data handling, masking/anonymization, and secure storage based on defined standards.
• Applying cloud platform security features (e.g., encryption, identity and access management, secure API integrations) to ensure AI applications adhere to enterprise and regulatory requirements.
• Executing security-related tasks such as integrating authentication, enforcing role-based access, and configuring secure data pipelines as part of delivering production-ready AI solutions.
• Identifying and addressing security or privacy considerations during development and proactively collaborating with security stakeholders to validate implementation.
• Documenting security-relevant design decisions, data flows, and privacy considerations to support Responsible AI practices and audit transparency.
• Collaborating with internal stakeholders to create AI-enabled solutions for repeatable business problems and develop functional prototypes to validate feasibility and applicability of AI technologies to practical use cases and challenges.
• Fostering innovation by identifying new AI technologies or methodologies that can enhance current processes or solve new challenges.
• Establishing best practices in AI governance principles ensuring ethical use, transparency, risk management while delivering high-quality services to clients.
• Leadership and direct supervisory experience of teams include conducting performance appraisals, mentoring and coaching, oversight and review of work, coordination across teams, and understanding how to motivate.

Your Educational and Professional Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a relevant discipline (e.g., Computer Science or related field).
• 5+ years working in professional services or industry.
• A minimum of 3-year hands-on experience with Generative Artificial Intelligence technology experimentation, prototyping, solutioning and deployment.
• Familiarity with cloud-based AI technologies and platforms is strongly preferred.
• Professional Certification such as AWS Certified Solutions Architect or Azure Solutions Architect are preferred.

Our Hybrid Workplace

Protiviti practices a hybrid model, which is a combination of working in person with a purpose and working remotely. This model creates meaningful experiences for our people and our clients while offering a flexible environment. The ratio of remote to in-person requirements varies by client, project, team, and other business factors. Our people work both in person in local Protiviti offices and on client sites, which can include local or out-of-state travel based on our projects and client requests and commitments.

Starting salary is based on a full-time equivalent schedule. Placement in the range is dependent upon experience, skills and geographic work location. Below is the salary range for this job.

$136,000.00 - $217,000.00

Our annual bonus plan provides eligible employees additional cash and/or discretionary stock compensation opportunities. Below is the bonus target opportunity for this job.

12%

The total cash range is estimated from the sum of the base salary range plus the bonus target opportunity. Below is the estimated total cash range for this job.

$152,320.00 - $243,040.00

Employees are eligible for medical, dental, and vision coverages, FSA and HSA healthcare accounts, life and accident insurance, adoption and fertility assistance, paid parental leave up to 10 weeks, and short/long term disability. We offer eligible employees a company 401(k) savings and investment plan with an employer match of 50% on the first 6% of your contributions. We provide Choice Time Off (CTO) for vacation, personal needs, and sick time. The amount of (CTO) varies based on years of service. New hires receive up to 20 days of CTO per calendar year. Protiviti also recognizes up to 11 paid holidays each calendar year.

Protiviti is an Equal Opportunity Employer. M/F/Disability/Veteran

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