AWS AI ML Engineer Senior Manager

JOB REQUISITIONAWS AI ML Engineer Senior ManagerLOCATIONCHICAGOADDITIONAL LOCATION(S)ATLANTA - PEACHTREE RD, AUSTIN, CHARLOTTE, DALLAS, DENVER, HOUSTON, MIAMI, ORLANDO, PHILADELPHIA, PHOENIX, TAMPAJOB DESCRIPTIONYou Belong HereThe Protiviti Career provides opportunity to learn, inspire, and advance within a collaborative and inclusive culture. We Care. At every level, we champion leaders who live our values of integrity, inclusion, innovation, and commitment to success. Imagining our work as a journey, we believe integrity guides our way, inclusion moves us forward together, innovation creates new destinations, and our commitment to success empowers us to deliver on our vision to be the most trusted global consulting firm. Where We Need YouProtiviti is looking for a Technology Consulting Senior Manager to join our growing Infrastructure, Cloud, & Security Engineering team. What You Can ExpectAs a Senior Manager, you'll partner with our clients to identify and manage risk. You'll develop lasting relationships with client personnel and further these relationships through quality product delivery. You'll foster a network within the business community and serve as an ambassador of Protiviti in the market. You will also be a mentor and provide performance development to teams as you oversee the successful completion of project work plans. What Will Help You Be Successful You enjoy implementing AWS technology. You are motivated to learn and interested in all things related to AWS Cloud including the latest trends and developments. You are passionate about building relationships with clients and providing exceptional experiences. You have an inherent interest in project management and team leadership. You create development opportunities for others, including participating in the creation and rollout of training, and ways for your team to improve our clients and communities. You excel at identifying opportunities to integrate product solutions and resources to improve client service capabilities. What Success Looks Like in the First Year Owns architecture and technical outcomes for significant AWS engagements, translating ambiguity into implementable plans. Improves team quality and efficiency through reusable architectures, standards, and engineering patterns. Prompt engineering and agent design (Bedrock Agents, tool-use patterns, multi-step workflows) RAG architecture (building and querying knowledge bases from structured procurement/contract data) NLP / text extraction (parsing free-text item descriptions) Document processing (Amazon Textract or equivalent for OCR on invoices and contracts) Confidence calibration (designing thresholds that gate auto-send vs human review) Basic ML understanding (to interface with an existing supervised ML classifier and consume its outputs) Python, LangChain or equivalent agent frameworks Experience with structured data classification (even if Weatherford's classifier handles most of it, the gap-analysis engine needs someone who understands how to validate and supplement classification outputs) Extensive experience designing and implementing enterprise AWS environments across infrastructure, networking, security, governance, migration, observability, infrastructure as code, automation, CI/CD, and platform engineering. Experience estimating and planning complex engagements and partnering with pre-sales teams to validate architectures, effort estimates, and statements of work. Strong client advisory and consulting leadership skills, including structured problem solving, facilitation, stakeholder management, executive communication, and accountability for outcomes. Translate objectives into AWS implementation strategies and lead architecture decisions across networking, identity, security, automation, resilience, observability, operating models, and AWS Well-Architected and compliance requirements. Guide and mentor cloud engineers, review critical deliverables and architecture decisions, and direct resolution of complex delivery challenges. Ensure sustainable operational transition, manage major technical risks and dependencies, and identify improvements to architecture, security, reliability, automation, and operating models. Professional Certification Required: AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate Preferred: AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional & AWS Certified Security - Specialty Our Hybrid Workplace Protiviti practices a hybrid model, which is a combination of working in person with a purpose and working remotely. This model creates meaningful experiences for our people and our clients while offering a flexible environment. The ratio of remote to in-person requirements vary by client, project, team, and other business factors. Our people work both in-person in local Protiviti offices and on client sites, which can include local or out-of-state travel based on our projects and client requests and commitments. Starting salary is based on a full-time equivalent schedule. 146,000.00 - $254,000.00 Our annual bonus plan provides eligible employees additional cash and/or discretionary stock compensation opportunities. Below is the bonus target opportunity for this job.14%The total cash range is estimated from the sum of the base salary range plus the bonus target opportunity. Below is the estimated total cash range for this job.$166,440.00 - $289,560.00 Employees are eligible for medical, dental, and vision coverages, FSA and HSA healthcare accounts, life and accident insurance, adoption and fertility assistance, paid parental leave up to 10 weeks, and short/long term disability. We provide Choice Time Off (CTO) for vacation, personal needs, and sick time. Protiviti also recognizes up to 11 paid holidays each calendar year. Any benefits outlined are part of our reward offerings for full-time employees in the U.Your Open Enrollment materials, insurance contracts, plan documents and Summary Plan Descriptions together comprise the official plan document which legally governs the administration of your benefit plans. M/F/Disability/Veteran As part of Protiviti's employment process, any offer of employment is contingent upon successful completion of a background check. Protiviti is committed to being an equal employment employer offering opportunities to all job seekers, including individuals with disabilities. The specific accommodation requested to complete the employment application. Protiviti is not licensed or registered as a public accounting firm and does not issue opinions on financial statements or offer attestation services. CHARLOTTE