About this role
Roles & Responsibilities :
This role leads the Data & AI consulting and advisory practice. An advisory-first leader accountable for the quality, credibility, and outcomes of the SL's consulting engagements. The role is critical in delivering the early engagements that establish client trust and create the platform for the Service Line to expand.
Key responsibilities
Practice leadership
Lead and grow the Data & AI consulting and advisory practice —methods, quality standards, and reputation.
Set engagement standards and delivery playbooks that make consulting outcomes consistent and repeatable.
Serve as the senior advisory voice of the SL with clients and internal leadership
Landing engagements & delivery oversight
Own successful delivery of critical landing engagements
Shape and oversee client engagements: scope, approach, staffing, and client outcome.
Accountability measured by consulting engagements delivered to a reference-able standard and the pipeline they generate.
Responsible for deliverable quality, client satisfaction— across the consulting portfolio.
Advisory & client trust
Act as trusted advisor to senior client stakeholders on Data & AI strategy, adoption, and transformation.
Translate complex, ambiguous client problems into structured, outcome-oriented engagement approaches.
Build durable relationships that position the SL for expansion within accounts
Team & capability
Lead and develop SL advisory staff; partner with AI-CoE to deploy consulting staff in client engagements in a matrix operating model.
Build consulting bench strength as the practice scales.
Feedback from engagements back into CoE assets, accelerators, and reusable methods.
Growth & pre-sales support
Support client partners — solution shaping, proposals, and client workshops — as the advisory authority
Contribute to the SL's go-to-market narrative and thought leadership.
Educational qualification:
B.E/B.Tech/MCA/PhD or equivalent Qualification
Experience :
12–18 years in technology/management consulting, with a strong Data & AI advisory track record
Mandatory/requires Skills :
Proven trusted-advisor standing with senior client stakeholders; shapes ambiguous problems into deliverable engagements
Data & AI and GenAI landscape and enterprise adoption patterns
Experience working alongside engineering and architecture teams in a services or product organization
History of leading complex consulting engagements to reference-able outcomes
Comfortable supporting pursuits and shaping proposals
First-level people leadership; able to lead direct staff and matrixed specialists
Ability to lead technical workshops with technical stakeholders in client environment
Excellent verbal and written communication, technical authoring, ability to communicate technical concepts, risks and trade-offs to stakeholders of varying technical competency
Preferred Skills :