Deputy Manager, AI & Platform Engineer

The role

You will be the technical owner and architect of the Finance AI Platform. You will build and run a secure internal platform that powers Finance dashboards, workflows and AI-assisted insights.

What you will do

• Architect, build and own the production-grade AI Platform for multiple Finance modules, executive dashboards and interactive workflows
• Implement enterprise-grade security, Okta SSO, RBAC mapping and clean backend API service boundaries
• Manage governed data-serving pipelines, schema design and caching strategies (API query and semantic caching)
• Integrate AI assistants via internal LLM gateways and build modular skills and services grounded in Finance context
• Drive CI/CD release automation via GitLab pipelines
• Run end-to-end production operations, monitoring, incident response and system reliability

Required qualifications

• Demonstrated curiosity and active exploration of AI tools, with a history of integrating new technologies into workflows
• 5 to 8 years building and operating production systems across data, backend and platform engineering
• Strong Python (FastAPI/services, pipelines) and SQL (Snowflake/PostgreSQL)
• Strong AWS fundamentals (VPC/IAM/EC2, security basics)
• Experience with CI/CD deployment pipelines
• Experience with authentication and SSO patterns
• Experience with containerization (Docker) and modern deployment practices

Nice to have

• Hands-on LLM integrations, including OpenAI-compatible APIs, RAG architectures, semantic caching and prompt/context management
• Proven ability to use AI technologies and workflows to drive measurable operational efficiency
• Expertise with Snowflake and dbt modeling, standards, testing, CI/CD, Redis caching patterns and observability
• Proven track record building internal data applications with React or Streamlit

Benefits

• Various health plans
• Time off plans for vacation and sick time
• Parental leave options
• Retirement options
• Education reimbursement
• In-office perks

Before you apply

• Applicants must comply with applicable laws, regulations and Zscaler security and privacy policies

About the company

Zscaler protects customers from cyberattacks and data loss with its Zero Trust Exchange platform. The company describes it as the world's largest in-line cloud security platform.