Senior Director

Who We Are  

FTI Consulting is the leading global expert firm for organizations facing crisis and transformation. We work with many of the world’s top multinational corporations, law firms, banks and private equity firms on their most important issues to deliver impact that makes a difference. From resolving disputes, navigating crises, managing risk and optimizing performance, our teams respond rapidly to dynamic and complex situations.

At FTI Consulting, you’ll work side-by side with leaders who have shaped history, helping solve the biggest challenges making headlines today. From day one, you’ll be an integral part of a focused team where you can make a real impact. You’ll be surrounded by an open, collaborative culture that embraces diversity, recognition, professional development and, most importantly, you.

Are you ready to make your impact?

About the Role

Our Data and Technology Transformation Practice helps corporations, private equity firms and other constituencies build long term competitive advantage, accelerate revenue growth and drive investment valuations while optimizing cost. We bring together lean, fast-moving teams of expert technologists, digital specialists, and data scientists to advise our clients on their digital transformation agendas and transaction needs.

We work with clients to understand the impact of rapidly evolving digital paradigms and emerging technologies on the future of their business, translating that into an executable strategy and blueprint that combines business model innovation, customer experience strategy, modern technology and data architectures with a rigorous focus on planning and execution. We assist clients on their high stakes transactions needs ranging from acquisition and divestment strategy to technology and digital due diligence, merger and acquisition (M&A) integration planning and carve outs.

What You’ll Do

The Senior Director – AI and ML Operations + Engineering will be a leader in the AI Transformation offering of FTI’s Data and Technology Transformation practice. This role will advise businesses on designing AI based solutions, platforms and architectures that enable enterprise use cases for creating business value. The candidate should have subject matter expertise in designing and implementing machine learning pipelines including a deep understanding of core ML frameworks such as PyTorch, TensorFlow or Scikit-learn and 3rd party ML platforms from Palantir, Dataiku, DataRobot, Alteryx and other vendors. In addition, the candidate should have a strong understanding and experience with the integrated machine learning environments provided in Azure, AWS and GCP, along with emerging experience with Generative AI ML technical architectures that include pre-trained LLM and diffusion models such as LLaMA, ChatGPT, Gemini, Stability AI and Claude as well as Vector Databases and orchestration tools such as LangChain. They must be comfortable engaging with non-technical end users to understand objectives and be able to leverage their understanding of available machine learning designs to blueprint solutions and oversee technical implementations, done by others.

In addition, the candidate will be responsible for providing advice and recommendations to our clients on the strategic application of pre-trained artificial intelligence capabilities and suitable use cases for custom tailored solutions for a variety of problems and in a variety of industries. They must have knowledge and experience with “black box” AI capabilities for traditional tasks such as image and video recognition, speech to text, language translation and chatbots, along with a deep understanding of the intellectual property and data privacy issues inherent in using pre-trained generative AI platforms.

How You’ll Grow 

We are committed to investing and supporting you in your professional development and we have developed a range of programs focused on fostering leadership, growth and development opportunities. We aim to promote continuous learning and individual skills development through on-the-job learning, self-guided professional development courses and certifications. You’ll be assigned a dedicated coach to mentor, guide and support you through regular coaching sessions and serve as an advocate for your professional growth.

As you progress through your career at FTI Consulting, we offer tailored programs for critical professional milestones to ensure you are prepared and empowered to take on your next role.

What You Will Need To Succeed

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree

• 6+ years of post-graduate experience

• Ability to travel to clients and to FTI offices as needed

• Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis; this position does not provide visa sponsorship

Preferred Qualifications

• Direct experience with production deployments of AI solutions, including machine learning solution design, pipeline development, support, and management

• Experience in a consultant environment to architect large scale enterprise AI platforms

• ML/AI Certification: i.e. GCP, AWS, Microsoft, Azure, etc

• Deep working knowledge of MLOps processes, ML frameworks and programming tools

• Generative AI technical architecture including LLMs and diffusion models

• Understanding of industry standard system architecture and system management concepts and tools

• Experience with all-in-one solutions such as Dataiku, DataRobot or similar products

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