Director, Data Engineering & AI

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West Monroe has an opportunity for a strategic Director, Data Engineering & AI to join our Technology practice.

This leader will structure, lead, support, drive, and grow West Monroe’s Technology Data Engineering practice and associated offerings in collaboration with other leaders across the company.

• Drive opportunity origination at existing clients, qualify leads and collaborate on pursuits for new work and build deep relationships
• Shape client engagements focused on AI-enabled data modernization, including data platform transformation, data quality, governance, and AI infrastructure readiness
• Collaborate with industry and multidisciplinary teams to identify sales opportunities
• Initiate and lead business development meetings with prospective clients
• Understand client needs and requirements and help turn those goals into concrete engagements and detailed proposals that highlight quantifiable value creation
• Create work plans, pricing estimates, and risk assessments for prospects
• Attend networking events and actively build and leverage a professional network and affiliate network in the local community

• Lead teams serving clients across industries while demonstrating executive presence with high level client counterparts.
• Manage and influence multi-disciplinary teams to translate client business objectives into data and analytics solutions; collaborate with data engineering, industry, and product teams to deliver impactful results for our clients
• Provide quality assurance and conduct frequent touch bases with client executives to ensure value is realized and understood from our engagements
• Architect enterprise data solutions that support AI use cases through high-quality, governed, discoverable, and interoperable data pipelines
• Guide clients in implementing data engineering best practices for AI applications, including feature engineering, vectorized data architectures, metadata management, and real-time data processing
• Understand and support the underlying business processes and technologies being used within an organization to be able to make recommendations on how to achieve long-term scalability, reduce operational cost, or better support business processes
• Ensure proper management of project economics including: project budgets, invoicing, and the collection process

• Collaborate with national and local leadership within Data Engineering & Analytics practice and across West Monroe industry and functional practices, to develop and deliver multi-disciplinary, data-driven offerings
• Develop and expand West Monroe’s capabilities around AI-enabled data engineering, intelligent data platforms, and cloud-native AI architectures
• Build accelerators, frameworks, and reusable assets that support AI data readiness, unstructured data processing, semantic layers, and vector database integration
• Drive internal innovation around emerging AI engineering patterns including retrieval augmented generation (RAG), agentic workflows, streaming data architectures, and AI orchestration frameworks
• Mentor teams on modern AI data engineering concepts including scalable pipeline design, data products, feature stores, and AI platform operationalization
• Stay current on evolving technologies across AI infrastructure, data engineering, cloud ecosystems, and intelligent data applications

• 10+ years participating in team-based, client-facing business and technology consulting services
• Requisite depth in one or more key data platform technologies – Databricks, GCP, and / or Snowflake
• Entrepreneurial spirit and willingness to innovate on new and emerging solutions
• Experience designing and delivering…