Kforce's client, a reputable financial services company in the Greater NYC area, is seeking an experienced API Evangelist/Cloud Developer to join their team on a contract to hire basis. Responsibilities include: * Lead the design, development, and deployment of a generative AI platform, ensuring optimal integration with enterprise systems and standards * Act as a hands-on developer and architect, creating a robust and scalable solution tailored to support AI-driven applications * Demonstrate technical leadership and hands-on expertise in generative AI technologies and cloud architecture * Responsible for the full stack development of the platform for AI products including custom architecture for batch and stream processing-based AI ML pipelines including data ingestion to preprocessing to scaled AI model compute and ensure the architecture meets all SLA requirements * Work closely with members of technology and business teams in the design, development, and implementation of Enterprise AI platform * Ensure the deployment, and management of scalable and reliable platform and application infrastructure for AI, ML, GenAI, LLM products * Lead the development, integration and testing of scalable APIs * Create and maintain robust monitoring systems to track model performance, data quality, and infrastructure health * Identify and implement optimizations to improve system efficiency * Collaborate closely with ML teams, business and PM stakeholders in full-stack implementation efforts and ensure technical milestones align with business requirements * Implement security measures and compliance standards of the platform and APIs to ensure adherence to industry regulations * Mentor technical engineering talent * Provide guidance and mentorship to junior engineers, fostering their professional growth and development