Data & AI Strategy Consultant

Data & AI Strategy Consultant

Location

Pan India (Bengaluru, Pune, Chennai, Hyderabad, Gurgaon, Kolkata)

We are seeking a highly skilled and motivated Data & AI Strategy Consultant to drive enterprise data and AI transformation initiatives. The role focuses on building data and AI strategies, delivering use cases, enabling governance frameworks, and supporting pre-sales, research, and thought leadership activities.

• Develop and implement enterprise-wide data and AI strategies, frameworks, and transformation roadmaps
• Conduct data and AI assessments and translate AI maturity assessment into prioritized roadmaps aligned with business outcomes
• Identify, assess, and solve client business problems using a data-driven approach to derive actionable strategy
• Lead or support end-to-end AI use case delivery including discovery workshops, use case definition, execution, and presentation to senior stakeholders
• Create functional requirement documents (FRDs) based on customer and business needs
• Design and implement data governance frameworks covering data quality, metadata, lineage, MDM, and data catalog
• Act as a SPOC for global master data management initiatives and collaborate with cross-functional teams
• Ensure alignment of data governance practices with regulatory and compliance requirements
• Define AI observability standards including decision traceability, hallucination control, and data lineage
• Support AI risk, governance, and Agentic AI architecture frameworks
• Work with IT and business stakeholders to advise on data stack evolution and strategic investments in an Agentic AI landscape
• Support and lead RFP/RFI development including opportunity shaping, proposal writing, pricing, and solution presentations
• Participate in AI-driven POCs, accelerators, and pre-sales/business development initiatives
• Conduct secondary research and develop thought leadership assets such as POVs, whitepapers, and market insights
• Create data assessment reports, maturity scorecards, and risk analysis artifacts and present them clearly to stakeholders
• Work with large, structured and unstructured datasets to derive insights and business value
• Collaborate with global stakeholders and cross-functional teams to ensure successful delivery of programs
• Manage programs using Agile/SAFe methodologies and ensure alignment with business objectives
• Expertise in Data Strategy domains including Data Governance, Data Quality, MDM, Metadata, Data Lineage, Data Catalog, and Ontology
• Familiarity with medallion architecture and semantic data layers
• Knowledge of GenAI, LLM applications, RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation), and Agentic AI workflows
• Understanding of AI assessment frameworks, roadmap creation, and transformation strategies
• Working knowledge of Agentic AI architecture, risk, and governance
• Familiarity with Agile / SAFe methodologies

Your Qualifications

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Data Management, or related field
• 6 to 10 years expertise
• MBA (Tier 1 / Tier 2 institutes preferred)
• Experience in one of the industries – Supply chain, Procurement, Manufacturing, Healthcare, Retail will be an added advantage