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Senior Data Consultant - AI Readiness

AHEAD· Digital Solutions Group / Data & Analytics
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Remote$185k - $225kFull-timePosted 6mo ago

About the role

Senior Data Consultant leading complex data, analytics, AI, and cloud transformation engagements for enterprise clients, combining consulting excellence with technical delivery leadership and people development.

Responsibilities

  • Lead one or more client engagements or multiple workstreams, ensuring successful delivery aligned to scope, schedule, budget, quality, and business objectives.
  • Lead project teams by establishing clear priorities, deliverables, accountability, and execution plans.
  • Facilitate strategy, roadmap, planning, solution design, and executive decision-making workshops.
  • Apply structured thinking and consultative problem solving to analyze business challenges, develop recommendations, and guide client decisions.
  • Translate business requirements into practical, scalable, and value-driven technical solutions.
  • Manage project scope, financials, milestones, risks, issues, dependencies, and delivery quality throughout the engagement.
  • Communicate status, risks, recommendations, and executive updates with transparency and professionalism.
  • Review and approve client deliverables to ensure quality and alignment with AHEAD standards.
  • Participate in discovery sessions, opportunity qualification, solution development, proposal creation, and client presentations.
  • Identify opportunities to expand existing client engagements and support account growth.
  • Build trusted advisor relationships with business, technology, and executive stakeholders.
  • Collaborate with account teams and practice leadership to shape strategic opportunities.
  • Contribute to consulting methodologies, delivery frameworks, reusable assets, and best practices.
  • Maintain expertise in modern data, AI, cloud, governance, analytics, and emerging technologies.
  • Mentor and coach team members through regular feedback and professional development.
  • Support recruiting, interviewing, onboarding, knowledge sharing, and continuous improvement initiatives.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, Mathematics, Data Science, or related technical discipline.
  • Typically 8–10+ years of experience delivering enterprise data, analytics, AI, cloud, or digital transformation initiatives.
  • Minimum five years of consulting or professional services experience leading complex client engagements.
  • Experience leading project teams, multiple workstreams, or enterprise initiatives with minimal oversight.
  • Experience delivering modern data platform solutions, including data engineering, cloud platforms, governance, analytics, AI, or enterprise architecture.
  • Experience managing project scope, financials, delivery governance, stakeholder communications, and executive presentations.
  • Strong leadership, consulting, communication, facilitation, analytical, and relationship management skills.
  • Demonstrated ownership, business acumen, executive presence, and ability to mentor and develop others.

Skills

Required:Leadership and delivery ownershipConsulting and business acumenTechnical excellence in data/AI/cloud

Benefits

  • Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance
  • 401(k)
  • Paid company holidays
  • Paid time off
  • Paid parental and caregiver leave
  • Plus more! See benefits at https://www.aheadbenefits.com/
Last updated Oct 21, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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Digital Platforms Engineered for Modern Enterprises

AHEAD accelerates the impact of technology on clients by engineering customized data, developer, and infrastructure platforms that improve IT operations.

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