Job Description: Technical Delivery Leader - Payments & Fintech Consulting
Location: Pune, India | Work Model: On-site
Experience Level: Senior (12+ years consulting delivery)
Employment Type: Full-Time
What We're Looking For: -
A leader who is technically credible, commercially savvy and client obsessed. Balance consulting rigor (scope, schedule, budget) with technical excellence and client success. Comfortable managing multiple concurrent engagements; skilled at converting client problems into delivery roadmaps and winning P& L outcomes. Bring hands-on knowledge of Data Engineering, AI/ML delivery, and payments infrastructure. Mentor delivery teams, build bench capacity, and foster consulting excellence. A trusted advisor to clients, champion for your teams, and owner of firm economics.
Role Overview
Lead consulting engagements for a fast-growing fintech/payment consulting firm. Own end-to-end delivery of complex, multi-year client projects across Fixed Price (FP), Time & Materials (T& M), and Outcome-based models. Manage project portfolios, lead cross-functional teams (engineers, architects, data scientists), drive client success, and ensure profitability. Requires deep technical credibility in payments infrastructure, database systems, AI/ML integration, regulatory compliance, and consulting delivery methodology.Key Responsibilities
Client Delivery & Project Management
Own delivery and commercial success of 2- 4 concurrent engagements; manage $2 M-$10 M+ project portfolios Drive project scoping, estimation, and resource planning; manage change orders and scope creep Establish SOWs, success criteria, and delivery roadmaps; communicate status through executive-level reporting Own P& L accountability; monitor utilization, billing, and profitability metrics Lead production deployments and handoff to client operations teamsTechnical Leadership
Lead technical strategy for payments/fintech infrastructure projects (migrations, API modernization, compliance automation) Own delivery of database architecture initiatives (schema design, data modeling, large-scale migrations) Lead AI/ML and automation projects (fraud detection, risk scoring, ML ops, agentic workflows) Write technical specifications, acceptance criteria, and implementation guides Advise clients on architecture trade-offs, technology selection, and compliance requirementsConsulting Delivery Excellence
Establish and enforce consulting delivery methodology (agile, waterfall, hybrid) tailored to engagement model Define project intake, scoping, risk management, and QA standards Create playbooks for data migrations, system integrations, platform implementations, and AI/ML pilots Track schedule, budget, and resources; escalating risks and propose mitigation strategiesResource & Client Management
Recruit, develop, and mentor delivery managers and technical leads Allocate resources across project portfolio; build bench capacity Serve as primary point of contact for client C-suite; conduct steering committees and executive briefings Build long-term client relationships; identify expansion and upsell opportunities Ensure regulatory compliance (PCI-DSS, AML/KYC, OFAC, GDPR, SOC 2) is embedded in deliveryRequired Qualifications
12+ years of consulting delivery leadership or project management (fintech/payments, enterprise software preferred) Proven track record managing multiple concurrent engagements with FP, T& M, and outcome-based billing models Deep database expertise: Schema design, query optimization, data modeling, large-scale migrations (Postgre SQL, My SQL, Oracle, No SQL); SQL proficiency required AI/ML project delivery: Led production delivery of AI/ML initiatives (fraud detection, risk scoring, ML pipelines, LLMs) Consulting delivery methodology: Mastery of scoping, estimation, risk management, change control Project management tools: Expert in Jira, Azure Dev Ops, , or equivalent Technical depth: APIs, system integrations, data pipelines, payment platforms, architecture trade-offs Fintech/Payments domain knowledge: Payment rails, settlement, compliance, tokenization, AML/KYC Regulatory expertise: PCI-DSS, AML/KYC, OFAC, GDPR, SOC 2, banking regulations Client-facing leadership: Excellent communication, executive presence, C-suite relationship management Team leadership: Experience recruiting, developing, and retaining delivery professionalsPreferred Qualifications
IT Services / Consulting firm background Outcome-based delivery expertise with measurable ROI/KPIs Vendor/delivery partner management and subcontractor coordination RFP responses and solution design contributions Distributed team management across geographies PMP, PRINCE2, or CSM certification LLM applications, RAG systems, or agentic AI frameworks in production Fraud detection, risk modeling, or financial crime prevention knowledge Cloud infrastructure projects (AWS, Azure, GCP) at scale Event-driven or stream processing architectures (Kafka, Pub/Sub)How to Apply
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