Lead Data & AI Engagements - Senior Consultant (Flexible)

Xebia Group; Zürich; On-site; CHF 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Xebia Group in Switzerland seeks a Data & AI Engagement Lead to drive end‑to‑end client work in financial services, combining deep technical knowledge with consulting and delivery leadership.

You will coordinate Swiss, nearshore, and offshore teams, translate business needs into practical Data & AI solutions, and help shape opportunities through proposals, statements of work, and service‑line initiatives.

Qualifications

• 6–9 years of experience in Data & AI, including at least 3 years in client-facing consulting.
• Background in Data & AI engineering or architecture with technical depth for client conversations.
• Proven experience owning delivery of a Data & AI engagement with nearshore/offshore teams.
• Experience working with decision-makers and driving Data & AI programs from business case to delivery.
• Fluent in German; Swiss German is a plus.
• EU/EFTA citizenship or an existing Swiss work permit.
• Existing client connections or relevant experience in financial services firms.

Responsibilities

• Lead Data & AI engagements end-to-end, taking ownership of scope, budget, project governance, client steering, and escalations.
• Guiding and coordinating Swiss, nearshore, and offshore delivery teams and reviewing their output to ensure quality and alignment with client expectations.
• Contributing hands-on to delivery yourself, from Data & AI advisory and solution architecture to technical design and implementation where it adds the most value.
• Translating business needs into practical Data & AI solutions across strategy and advisory, data platforms on Databricks (including Xebia AXIS), Agentic Data Foundations, GenAI, and agentic AI, and seeing them through from production into managed services.
• Identifying and shaping new opportunities within existing client accounts in close collaboration with Account Managers and Sales, and contributing to solution design, proposals, statements of work, effort estimates, staffing plans, and service line initiatives such as offerings, accelerators, and demos.

Skills

Data & AI

Client-facing consulting

Delivery leadership

Solution architecture

Databricks

Tools

Databricks

Job description

Xebia Group in Switzerland seeks a Data & AI Engagement Lead to drive end‑to‑end client work in financial services, combining deep technical knowledge with consulting and delivery leadership.

You will coordinate Swiss, nearshore, and offshore teams, translate business needs into practical Data & AI solutions, and help shape opportunities through proposals, statements of work, and service‑line initiatives.