Data & AI Architect

Objectives of this role:

• Serve as the main point of contact in all Data & AI engagement to client concerns and needs.
• Build and strengthen client relationships to achieve long-term partnerships.
• Work with sales and other internal teams to develop strategic solutions and ensure KPIs are being met.
• Thrives in an ever-evolving Business and Technology landscape.
• Develop a thorough understanding of our products and service offerings to better upsell and cross-sell to clients.

Responsibilities:

• Handle inquiries and requests from customers and address their needs.
• Stay on top of accounts, making sure they receive services that are within their budget and meet their needs.
• Meet regularly with other team members to discuss progress and find new ways to improve business.
• Generate progress reports for clients and senior leaders within the organization.
• Identify upsell, cross-sell, and renewal opportunities and communicate with the sales team regularly.
• Manage organizational deliverables by using industry standards methods.

Required skills and qualifications:

• 15+years of total experience
• Proven specialization and expertise in Data & AI. Extensive experience in designing and architecting Data marts, Dara Warehouse, Data Lake.
• Must be in tune with current trends in AI &ML. Ability to lead discussion on AI & ML Use cases, business benefits and implementation of Advance analytics is mandatory
• Must have good understanding of AI platform provisioned by Microsoft Azure, Google Vertex or Amazon
• Must have good technical knowhow and understanding of Cloud Technology, Cloud Data Warehouse / Data lake platform
• Must have good expertise in Data Governance practices. Ability to lead solution for Data Quality, Data Profiling, Data Catalog and Metadata management strategy
• Ability to multitask and juggle several responsibilities simultaneously.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Excellent organizational skills and attention to detail.
• Crafted Statement of Work, Proposals, Master Services Agreements, Service Level Objectives, etc.
• Managed revenue of the assigned client/s including managing profit and loss of the assigned account.
• Engaged global practice and solution team which wins high value contracts.
• Acted as Trusted advisor to the clients.

Preferred skills and qualifications:

• Orchestrates the activities between HCL and Clients at various levels – Executives to Technologists
• Finds opportunities to engage the clients in a structured way by building winning Proposals.
• Proactively creates initiatives to share thought leadership.
• Demonstrated leadership by engaging the organization to deliver industry differentiating solutions.
• Plan for resources with the right skills and knowledge for effective engagement on the accounts.
• Manage assigned human resources by leveraging the hire to retire process.