Chicago Principal Intelligent Data & Automation in Wood Dale

HI Principal Consultant, Intelligent Data & Automation

At AIM Consulting, we are a focused, energetic group of people working together with passion, enthusiasm, and commitment to being an industry leader in technology consulting. We lead by developing and nurturing long-term relationships with our clients and partners. We invest in our employees, fostering career growth through training, personal development, and mentorship. Our employees are encouraged to be creative and driven to succeed.

We value honest communication, reward performance, and produce high-quality results and wow our clients. Our days are competitive, fast, fun, and exciting.

Our Chicago office is seeking a Principal Consultant to join our Intelligent Data & Automation practice. This leadership role supports business development, leads client engagements, designs data & AI solutions, and manages a high-performance team of architects, data engineers, data scientists, and analytics engineers.

Technical & AI Leadership

• Solve complex business problems by defining enterprise data and AI strategies.

• Architect cloud-native data platforms and AI-native systems, including LLM, RAG, and automated/agentic AI solutions.

• Lead design of scalable data architectures (lakehouse, streaming, real-time inference) that support advanced analytics and AI workloads.

• Establish best practices for ML/LLM lifecycle management, model evaluation, governance, and responsible AI deployment.

Engagement & Delivery Leadership

• Translate ambiguous business challenges into MVPs and scalable AI-enabled solutions.

• Influence executive stakeholders and guide end-to-end delivery of data and AI programs.

• Manage scope, financial health, delivery quality, and risk across a portfolio of engagements.

Practice & Market Leadership

• Develop thought leadership in AI, advanced analytics, and intelligent systems.

• Represent the firm through industry speaking, publications, and executive client forums.

• Contribute to practice growth, partnerships, and emerging technology positioning.

People & Business Development

• Recruit, mentor, and lead high-performing technical teams.

• Support business development through executive conversations, proposal development, and solution strategy.

Consulting Experience

• 10+ years leading enterprise digital, data, and AI strategy engagements, translating business objectives into scalable architectures and measurable transformation outcomes.

• Demonstrated success advising senior stakeholders on modernization initiatives involving cloud data platforms, advanced analytics, Generative/Agentic AI, and model-driven decision systems.

• Strong strategic problem-solving capability, applying structured frameworks to define operating models, governance structures, and investment priorities across data and intelligent systems.

• Experience leading client discovery, assessing data maturity, identifying AI/ML and LLM opportunities, and shaping pragmatic implementation roadmaps aligned to business value.

• Proven ability to develop proposals and Statements of Work that clearly articulate strategy, architecture, delivery sequencing, and financial impact.

Technical Experience

• Architecture leadership across modern cloud ecosystems (AWS, Azure, GCP) and data platforms (e.g., Databricks, Snowflake, Fabric), including lakehouse, warehouse, streaming, and real-time processing patterns.

• Experience designing and operationalizing advanced analytics, ML, and Generative AI solutions, including LLM integration, Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), vector search, agentic AI orchestration, and model lifecycle management (MLOps/LLMOps).

• Ability to integrate AI capabilities into secure, scalable enterprise architectures, balancing performance, governance, and responsible AI considerations.

• Strong technical fluency in modern data engineering ecosystems (SQL, Python, distributed processing, streaming frameworks) to provide effective architectural oversight.

The OTE compensation range for this role is $200,000-$240,000 and is comprised of base salary and bonus with YoY growth. Actual compensation may vary based on experience and skillset as…