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 $2M-$10M+ 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 teams
Technical 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 requirements
Consulting 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 strategies
Resource & 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 delivery
Required 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 (PostgreSQL, MySQL, Oracle, NoSQL); 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 DevOps, Monday.com, 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 professionals
Preferred 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
Share your resumes to by highlighting consulting delivery and fintech/payments experience, and 2-3 case studies of successfully delivered projects (scope, complexity, engagement model, team size, outcomes).
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