Sr. Practice Manager Data Platforms

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What will you be doing?

The Senior Practice Manager, Data Platforms is a people-focused technical sales leader responsible for strategy, go-to-market, and thought leadership for AI data readiness, data governance, and data platform partner alignment within Applied AI. This leader provides technical direction and business guidance to corporate leaders and field sales, builds and develops a team of high-performing technical solution architects and specialists, and helps meet global gross profit and net contribution goals through innovative technical programs and field enablement.

The role leads data platform partner execution across hyperscaler, data platform, and AI infrastructure OEMs, and works across the Workforce AI, AI-Native Engineering, and AI practices so that data readiness is part of every Applied AI engagement.

Responsibilities:

• Develop and execute the Data Platforms go-to-market strategy, including AI data readiness, data governance for AI, and data platform modernization
• Lead, coach, and develop the team, using tools such as the Job Performance Matrix to manage performance, development, and engagement
• Build and productize data readiness assessments that convert into advisory and delivery engagements
• Support data platform partner execution, including joint sales plays, co-sell motions, enablement, and pipeline development with hyperscaler, data platform, and AI infrastructure partners
• Help define reference architectures, workshops, briefings, and demos covering structured and unstructured data, retrieval pipelines, semantic layers, and governed data access for AI agents
• Establish governance frameworks aligned to NIST AI RMF, the EU AI Act, and sector-specific requirements, including lineage, classification, and policy enforcement
• Partner with security and Fin Ops teams on data security posture and consumption cost governance across data platforms
• Drive field enablement through virtual teams, roadshows, and all-hands meetings, and provide business leadership to sales teams on account profiling and sales plays with CDO, CDAO, CIO, and CISO stakeholders
• Drive the team in creating technical proposals, leveraging Professional Services, Global Supply Chain, and ATC Labs and the AI Proving Ground to enable complete solutions
• Contribute to practice marketing strategy and own content and topic strategy for the practice on the digital platform
• Influence the technical…