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Fractional Technical Leadership

Principal-level AI and data leadership without the full-time hire: architecture review, technical direction between executives and engineering, and embedded hands-on delivery, grounded in years of building inside the Government of Canada.

Principal-level judgmentPart-time, accountableHands-on with your team
Audience

CEOs, CTOs and heads of product who need senior AI and data judgment without a full-time hire, to unblock teams, review architecture and keep delivery honest

Problem

Teams move fast but without senior technical oversight: architecture drifts, build-vs-buy is guessed, and engineering and executive direction fall out of sync

Outcome

Clear technical direction, accountable architecture decisions, and a team that ships with senior oversight without the overhead of a full-time hire

Deliverable

Fractional leadership: architecture reviews, technical roadmap stewardship, build-vs-buy guidance, team unblocking and hands-on delivery alongside your engineers

Engagement model

A principal in the room.

Fractional leadership keeps executives and engineering on the same technical thesis: senior review and direction, applied hands-on inside your stack.

  • Architecture review & a technical thesis both sides trust
  • Weekly direction & build-vs-buy calls
  • Delivery alongside your engineers
Approach · engagement sequence

Approach

  1. 01
    Assess & Align
    Architecture review, stakeholder alignment and a clear technical thesis that executives and engineering both trust
  2. 02
    Steer & Unblock
    Weekly direction, design reviews and build-vs-buy calls that keep the team moving and prevent expensive drift
  3. 03
    Embed & Ship
    Hands-on delivery inside your stack, with modelling, review and pairing, so decisions ship instead of living in slide decks
Evidence · proof for this capability
Government · North America
Government of Canada: Greenfield Data Platform
Established a reusable, infrastructure-as-code data platform that turned disparate source systems into governed analytical products. The team could operate ingestion and transformation workloads appropriate to each source, while analysts worked from curated datasets rather than the raw lake.
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Bring a principal into the room

30 minutes to talk through your team, your architecture, and where senior oversight would change the outcome.

Book a 30-minute callor email info@yannickbounouar.com
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