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Senior Business Consultant

Job in Newark, Essex County, New Jersey, 07175, USA
Listing for: Sonata Software
Full Time position
Listed on 2026-05-31
Job specializations:
  • IT/Tech
    AI Engineer
Salary/Wage Range or Industry Benchmark: 100000 - 125000 USD Yearly USD 100000.00 125000.00 YEAR
Job Description & How to Apply Below

We are seeking a Senior Business Consultant to lead AI-driven transformation initiatives across client organizations and internal business units. This role is a hands-on, outcomes-focused partner to solution and enterprise architects
—helping shape the right problem, define pragmatic target-state roadmaps, and accelerate delivery from discovery to pilot to scale
. The role combines strategic advisory, program leadership, and commercial acumen to drive AI adoption, scale use cases, and unlock measurable business value and rapid time-to-impact
.

Key Responsibilities
1. Client Advisory & AI Strategy
  • Serve as a trusted advisor to business leaders and partner closely with solution/enterprise architects to shape feasible, secure, and scalable AI approaches
  • Lead value discovery, define architect-aligned roadmaps, and prioritize initiatives for rapid time-to-value with clear success metrics
  • Translate business priorities into scalable AI/GenAI solutions and investment cases, articulating architecture options, trade-offs, and value realization
  • Own end-to-end delivery from ideation to PoC to pilot to production readiness,
    removing blockers and accelerating decisions in partnership with architects and engineering
  • Establish governance, guardrails, and success metrics (security, compliance, cost, performance) with reference architectures and value realization frameworks
  • Coordinate with offshore delivery teams to ensure predictable execution, quality, and rapid iteration cycles that deliver measurable outcomes
  • Identify, prioritize, and shape high-impact AI use cases across business functions
  • Co-design solution architectures (copilots, agentic workflows, RAG systems) with architects/engineering, leveraging reusable patterns and accelerators
  • Ensure alignment with enterprise architecture, data platforms/landing zones, and security standards to enable safe scale
4. Commercial Ownership & Growth
  • Lead AI-led consulting engagements by articulating clear business value drivers, quantified benefits, and urgency tied to client priorities
  • Shape proposals and solution pitches that connect business outcomes to architectural choices, leveraging architects to de-risk feasibility and timelines
  • Build compelling business cases, ROI narratives, and pricing constructs that clearly show path-to-value from pilot to scale
  • Drive account growth by expanding the transformation roadmap, identifying adjacent value pools, and aligning near-term wins to a longer-term AI vision
5. Executive Stakeholder Engagement
  • Facilitate value discovery sessions, visioning workshops, and executive forums to paint the end-state vision and align stakeholders on “why change, why now”
  • Translate complex AI and architecture concepts into clear executive narratives that enable confident decision-making
  • Partner with architects to proactively address IT concerns, constraints, and dependencies, reducing friction and accelerating approvals
  • Influence senior leaders by anchoring discussions in business value, risk mitigation, and delivery realism, not just technology potential
6. Adoption & Change Enablement
  • Develop reusable value discovery frameworks, road mapping templates, and storytelling assets that help teams consistently connect architecture to outcomes
  • Partner with architects to codify repeatable patterns, guardrails, and accelerators that reduce IT overhead on future engagements
  • Contribute to internal and external thought leadership by sharing practical lessons on scaling AI from pilot to production
  • Help elevate the organization’s consulting maturity by reinforcing a culture of business-led transformation enabled by architecture
Required Skills & Experience
  • 10–15+ years in consulting, digital transformation, or AI program delivery (3–5 years in AI consulting), with a track record of partnering with architects to deliver outcomes
  • Proven experience leading enterprise-scale AI/GenAI initiatives
  • Strong exposure to industries including healthcare & life sciences, Retail & manufacturing and banking & financial services.
  • Hands-on low-code apps and automation development, including rapid prototyping of copilots/agents (e.g., vibe coding) to validate value and architectural fit
Core Skills
  • AI/ML and GenAI fundamentals (LLMs, RAG, AI agents, MLOps)
  • Business consulting, problem framing, and architecture-to-value storytelling
  • Program leadership and stakeholder management across product, engineering, and architecture teams
  • Commercial acumen and deal shaping
  • Data-driven decision-making, KPI design, and adoption/value realization measurement
Preferred Qualifications
  • Certifications in AI/LC-NC development
  • Experience with AI governance, ethics, and regulatory frameworks
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Position Requirements
10+ Years work experience
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