Client Partner - Head of AI Foundations for GCP

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Brief about the Team & Fractal: 

Fractal Analytics is a strategic analytics partner to the most admired Fortune 500 companies globally and helps them power every human decision in the enterprise by bringing analytics & AI to the decision-making process. We deliver insight, innovation, and impact to them by leveraging Big Data, analytics and technology and help them drive smarter, faster, and more accurate decisions in every aspect of their business. 

Overview

Own GCP Data platform strategy, AI/ML infrastructure, data governance, responsible AI, and operations across all services delivered to enterprise clients globally. Build the systems that enable our India-based and distributed teams to deliver AI solutions reliably and at scale.

Location: India (Bangalore)
Reports to: CTO 

Key Responsibilities

Data & Enterprise Context

• Build enterprise-grade data platform (BigQuery, Dataflow, feature stores)
• Expertise in Data Mesh/ Data fabric architecture
• Implement RAG/knowledge base infrastructure for client context and grounding
• Design data governance, lineage, and compliance frameworks
• Establish data quality and SLA monitoring

Responsible AI & Governance

• Implement RAI frameworks (fairness, bias monitoring, safety controls)
• Create monitoring systems for model performance, drift, hallucinations
• Establish responsible AI evaluation and deployment standards
• Ensure compliance and audit-readiness for enterprise clients

Multi-Agentic Systems & Operations

• Build infrastructure for agentic systems (orchestration, tool use, memory)
• Design unified monitoring across platform, data, ML, LLMs, agents
• Establish SLOs, incident response, operational excellence practices
• Create dashboards and visibility for customer-facing systems

Platform & Infrastructure

• Design and execute GCP platform strategy; architect for AI workloads at scale
• Implement training infrastructure for model fine-tuning and optimization
• Manage infrastructure costs and FinOps practices
• Establish platform standards and architectural patterns

Team & Delivery

• Build and scale high-performing India-based platform engineering team
• Partner with delivery/services teams to enable client implementations
• Own enterprise readiness and customer requirements
• Hire, develop, and mentor engineering talent
• Coordinate with global leadership on platform roadmap

Required Experience

• 12+ years infrastructure/platform engineering; 5+ years leading technical teams
• Deep GCP expertise (Compute, BigQuery, Vertex AI, GKE, data services)
• Enterprise data platform design (100GB+ datasets, complex ETL/streaming)
• Experience with distributed systems, databases, and large-scale data processing
• Strong understanding of ML/LLM fundamentals and modern AI systems
• Proven ability to build and lead large technical teams 
• Executive presence; ability to communicate with C-suite and enterprise customers

Required Competencies

• Architectural vision for multi-year platform evolution
• Systems thinking; optimization across interdependent components
• Technical depth; hands-on leadership across infrastructure and ML
• Strategic leadership; making sound trade-off decisions with long-term implications
• Execution excellence; translating strategy into metrics and delivery
• Cross-functional influence; strong partnerships with delivery, product, engineering teams
• Cost consciousness and FinOps mindset
• Continuous learning in rapidly evolving AI landscape

Work Environment

• Location: India (Bangalore )
• Work Setup: Hybrid flexible 
• Travel: 5-10% for client meetings, team offsites, conferences
• Team Interaction: Lead India-based team; regular sync with global leadership
• Work Hours: Flexible core hours with some overlap with global timezones

Why Join Us

• Leading AI Company: India-based role at global AI-driven services company
• Strategic Impact: Direct influence on platform powering enterprise AI solutions
• Technical Leadership: Work with cutting-edge LLMs, agentic systems, enterprise AI
• Team Building: Build and scale high-performing India-based engineering organization
• Growth Opportunity: Significant growth potential; 10x scaling ahead
• Global Scope: Lead systems serving enterprise clients globally while based in India
• Execution Focus: Balance innovation with reliable delivery to enterprise customers

If you like wild growth and working with happy, enthusiastic over-achievers, you'll enjoy your career with us!

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