Alpha financial markets consulting

Overview

As a Sr. / Lead Forward Deployed Engineer, you will play a pivotal role in shaping how leading financial services organizations adopt and scale AI, working on high-visibility initiatives inside wealth management firms, banks, and insurance companies.

About Alpha financial markets consulting

Alpha Financial Markets Consulting (Alpha) is a leading global consultancy to the financial services industry. Founded in 2003, they provide specialist, sector-focused strategy, management consulting, and technology expertise to support the entire client transformation lifecycle for asset and wealth management, alternatives, and insurance industrie

Requirements & Eligibility

• Experience in data science, LLMs, and agentic AI
• Ability to own the full lifecycle of AI/ML projects
• Experience in designing, building, and maintaining scalable data pipelines
• Knowledge of MLOps best practices and CI/CD

Key Responsibilities

• Own the full lifecycle of AI/ML projects, including problem framing, data acquisition, feature engineering, model and LLM selection and fine-tuning, evaluation, deployment, monitoring, and continuous improvement.
• Design, build, and maintain scalable data pipelines for ingestion, preprocessing, and feature engineering.
• Implement RAG pipelines using vector databases and embedding strategies.
• Fine-tune, prompt-engineer, and evaluate LLMs for domain-specific tasks.
• Design and orchestrate agentic workflows including tool-using agents, multi-step planners, guardrails, and alignment mechanisms.
• Establish robust evaluation frameworks covering hallucination checks, calibration, bias and fairness, and adversarial testing.
• Build logging, telemetry, safeguards, governance artifacts, and documentation for model risk management.
• Lead the end-to-end lifecycle of AI models from experimentation and prototyping to scalable deployment.