Role Summary
- Lead and manage Data and AI Consulting projects from inception to completion, ensuring successful delivery within budget and timeline constraints.
- Collaborate with clients to understand their business goals and challenges and develop AI strategies and roadmaps to address their needs.
- Identify and evaluate Data transformation opportunities within client organisations to enable them to be AI-ready, conducting feasibility studies and assessing potential risks and benefits.
- Provide guidance and mentorship to junior consultants, fostering their professional growth and development in Data, AI, and consulting domains.
- Stay current with the latest AI technologies and methodologies advancements, leverage them for client projects, and accelerate innovation and growth by developing service offerings.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including data scientists, data engineers, business analysts, and industry experts to ensure seamless integration and implementation of Data transformation solutions enabling organising scale with AI.
- Build and maintain strong client relationships, acting as a trusted advisor and thought leader in Data, AI, and Consulting.
Key skills:
- Well-defined strong management consulting experience across Banking- Finance or Telco
- Develop, lead, and drive teams to achieve bespoke outcomes.
- Ability to design Operating & Business Models specific to data platforms and emerging industry capabilities - mandatory.
- Experience in leading RFP/Tender responses on a large scale with revenue targets.
- Demonstrated ability in defining and delivering hybrid & multi-cloud strategy/roadmap, migration, and adoption.
- Experience with cloud domains (AWS, Azure, Google, private cloud providers), which can be led through digital transformation and/or migration projects.
- Understanding of emerging business priorities like Application Portfolio Rationalization, AI, and ML
- Technology strategy transformation, “Business of IT” analysis.
Thought Leadership & Practice Development
- Lead the development and delivery of service offerings.
- Actively works to update/upgrade expertise or knowledge in IT practices and emerging technologies.
- Publish Points of view (POVs) on core service IT offerings, emerging technologies and practices, Business, Cloud, and Digital Transformations.
- Capture work products, insights gained, and intellectual property created.
- Directly contribute to capability development.
- Expand, publicize, and support continuous development through the firm’s knowledge management system, etc.
- Actively contribute and share knowledge/expertise to upskill the team
Sales and Marketing
- RFP and Client proposal development.
- Ability to lead and drive compelling business cases and client presentations.
- Contribute towards points of view (POVs) through blogging, white papers, and other thought leadership.
- Lead work streams to aid the development of new business opportunities.
- Conduct market/client research and industry analysis.
Measures of success
- Lead consulting engagements on all levels
- Manage a portfolio of engagements, client stakeholders and teams to deliver outcomes to realise benefits while meeting agreed time, budgetary, and quality measures.
- Achievement of revenue contribution and utilization targets
- Contribute to practice and capability development.
