Lightworks - Principal Consultant
Requirements
• 10+ years of demonstrated delivery experience in senior technology leadership roles, 3+ of which inside a highly regulated institution – financial services, insurance, telecommunications, or government • Demonstrated consulting, professional services, or advisory experience with evidence of owning outcomes at meaningful scale – program scope, budget, roadmap, stakeholder alignment, delivery teams, and executive communication • Evidence of contributing to business development, executive relationship management, proposal leadership, or scope expansion • Domain Expertise • Domain Expertise • Demonstrated experience building enterprise AI capabilities – LLM gateways, model inference routing, model guardrails, and agent orchestration frameworks (LangChain, LangGraph, Google ADK, or equivalent) inside regulated environments • Ability to engage credibly with engineers and architects, defend technical decisions in architecture and risk reviews, and understand the engineering implications of your recommendations • Familiarity with regulated delivery expectations – governance, compliance, auditability, and production readiness • Communication & Culture Fit • Exceptional communication range - able to work effectively with engineers, CIOs, regulators, and board-level stakeholders without losing precision or credibility at any level • Collaborative leadership style that builds trust quickly, earns credibility and raises the standard of the teams around you • Sound judgment under ambiguity – prioritize with clarity, and keep delivery focused on what matters most • Advantageous • Mainframe and/or legacy application modernization exposure • Multi-cloud experience – AWS, Azure & GCP • Familiarity with observability, SRE practices, and production operations in regulated environments • IaC fluency: Terraform, CloudFormation, Bicep, or equivalent
Responsibilities
• Delivery • Lead complex technology, AI, modernization, and platform programs inside regulated enterprise environments, from architecture through delivery • Translate board and executive priorities into structured programs, delivery roadmaps, operating models, and clear decision paths • Assume direct VP or SVP-level accountability for technology programs in CTOaaS engagements – owning structure, operating model, team structure, and delivery roadmap • Client & Relationship Leadership • Build and maintain trusted advisor relationships with client C-suite, board-level stakeholders, and regulators – present at steering committees, brief executive sponsors, and own key client communications • Lead steering committee discussions, executive briefings, and complex stakeholder conversations with clarity and credibility • Foster relationships across client business units, facilitating cross-functional AI and technology initiatives • Commercial & Team Leadership • Contribute to business development through client relationship development, scope expansion, proposal leadership, and identification of new opportunities • Mentor and develop Senior Consultants on your engagements – invest in their growth, hold them to a high standard, and build the next generation of Lightworks’ delivery capability • Technical Implementation • Lead, design and build enterprise AI capabilities including LLM gateway, model and inference routers, implementation of guardrails usingLangGraph, LangFuse, ADK, and other leading LLM orchestration and observability platforms • Own and deliver AI and data workstreams within large-scale enterprise programs, including AI/ML infrastructure, data platforms, and agentic system deployments • CTOaaS & Cloud Consulting • Lead, design and build secure, compliant cloud platforms, and foundations for highly regulated industries (finance, insurance, aviation, or similar) • Drive client stakeholder meetings at the Executive and C-suite level, communicating progress, risks, and decisions clearly • Produce technical documentation, architecture decision records, and delivery artefacts that are clear, defensible, and production-ready • WHAT WE LOOK FOR • WHAT WE LOOK FOR • Education • Bachelor’s degree in engineering, computer science, electronics, or another STEM-related field. • Hyper-scale certifications at the Associate or Professional level are required
Benefits
• Competitive base compensation with performance bonus, aligned with industry standards • Full benefits package and stock options plan participation • Direct access to the ACP platform and consortium - a first-of-its-kind program at the frontier of regulated AI • Close collaboration with the Lightworks Principals and founding team across strategy, delivery, platform development and client growth • Opportunity to shape how the world’s most regulated institutions govern and scale agentic AI • At Lightworks, the opportunity is to work at the level where the most important technology decisions are being made. Our team is trusted by CIOs, CTOs, risk leaders, and senior engineering teams inside some of the world’s most highly regulated institutions. The people we bring into Lightworks are expected to meet that standard- to think deeply, communicate clearly, and deliver alongside others who have built and led systems at serious scale. • Lightworks is helping shape how AI is deployed, governed, and scaled inside highly regulated institutions. Through enterprise AI, control plane engineering, modernization, and the Agentic Control Plane, we are working on the standards, systems, and delivery models that regulated institutions will rely on in the next era of technology. For someone operating at this level, Lightworks offers the chance to do defining work, with exceptional people, on problems that will matter well beyond a single engagement.
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