AI Data Governance Consultant (m/f/x)

Virtual Identity; Österreich; Vor Ort; EUR 70.000 - 110.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

Virtual Identity is seeking an AI Data Governance Consultant to guide clients on data warehousing and security within AI initiatives. The role blends engineering grounding with a security-first approach and requires leading governance design and ongoing advisory for implementation projects.

Responsibilities include advising on data security risks, ensuring proper data flows, and transforming technical risk into actionable decisions for leadership, while supporting business development across

Qualifikationen

• Experience consulting and leading engagements independently.
• Strong background in data engineering and data warehousing.
• Deep understanding of data security practices for AI systems and risk assessment.

Aufgaben

• Act as trusted adviser on data security and governance for AI initiatives across client engagements.
• Assess and advise on data security risks tied to AI systems, focusing on access, classification, architecture and cloud handling.
• Bring a data engineering perspective to governance work with real data warehousing experience.
• Guide clients and stakeholders through AI-related risks in plain, actionable terms for leadership decisions.
• Participate in and help close new business: join sales conversations and build client trust pre-contract.

Kenntnisse

Data governance

Data security

Data engineering

Data warehousing

Cloud data security

Risk assessment

Client engagement

Communication (English)

Communication (German)

Jobbeschreibung

We're looking for an AI Data Governance Consultant who can guide our clients when AI initiatives raise hard questions about data warehousing and security.

This is an engineering-grounded, security-first role. Our ideal candidate will work together with clients to create the governance framework, lay out how and where data should flow through different areas of their architecture, and guide the client on an ongoing basis as the implementation moves along.

What you will do:

• Act as a trusted adviser on data security and governance for AI initiatives across client engagements — the person clients call when a risk question comes up.
• Assess and advise on data security risks tied to AI systems: data exposure, access control, model/data lineage, third-party and cloud data handling, and secure data architecture — with security as the primary lens.
• Bring a data engineering perspective to governance work, grounded in real data warehousing and data platform experience.
• Guide clients and their stakeholders through emerging AI-related risks in plain, actionable terms — translating technical risk into decisions leadership can act on.
• Actively participate in and help close new business: join sales conversations, build client trust pre-contract, and convert relationships into signed engagements.
• Build visible, ongoing trust with clients — it's clearly observable that clients trust you and your input.

Requirements

What we expect:

• Be consistently sought after and organically pulled into new discussions, either by our own account teams or by clients directly.
• Shape client and team discussions into new business for VI across more than one client account.
• Contribute measurably to closing 1–2 new client engagements within your first 6 months.
• Experience consulting and leading engagements independently, while aligning with the strategy set by the account team.
• Data engineering background, with hands-on experience leading data warehousing initiatives.
• Deep understanding of data security practices as they apply to AI systems: access management, data classification, secure architecture, cloud data security, and risk assessment.
• Comfort pitching ideas and closing deals as part of a wider account team.
• Excellent communication skills in English (candidates based in Portugal), or in both English and German (candidates based in Germany or Austria).
• Some exposure to legal and compliance work (nice to have).
• Experience across multiple industries or regulatory environments in the DACH or EU market (nice to have).
• A proven network or reputation in the AI governance/security space (nice to have).
• Experience with cloud infrastructure, either as an engineer or as an architect (nice to have).