Sorai is looking for a CTO to own the end‑to‑end technical strategy, architecture, and delivery of a prototype AI Auditing system for a leading bank. Beyond the scope of this project, Sorai is looking for an advisor who can help shape proposals, lead projects and act as a technical consultant.
Project Length months.
Experience & Skills
* 10+ years leading engineering for data/ML or analytics platforms; 5+ years in a CTO/Chief Architect/Head of Engineering capacity.
* Delivered solutions in regulated financial services.
* Hands‑on depth in explainable AI (e.g., SHAP, Integrated Gradients), fairness (disparate impact/EO), drift (PSI/KS), adversarial robustness, counterfactuals.
* Strong MLOps & platform engineering: Docker/Kubernetes, model packaging & reproducibility, job orchestration, telemetry/observability, artefact management.
* Cloud (Azure preferred): identity & access, Key Vault, container registries, AKS, storage, monitoring/log analytics; IaC (Terraform/Bicep), CI/CD (GitHub Actions/Azure DevOps).
* Backend service design & APIs (Python/FastAPI or Go/Java; gRPC/REST), secure data stores (Postgres/Timescale, object storage), streaming/messaging (Kafka/Service Bus).
* Security & privacy by design: threat modelling, SBOM/SCA, SAST/DAST, secrets management, CIS benchmarks, network isolation, audit logging.
* LLM systems: RAG patterns, evaluation & guardrails, prompt & data governance, safety considerations.
* Excellent stakeholder management and communication; ability to translate metrics into decisional insights for supervisors.