Spatial AI Lead - Data, Analytics & Automation

Accenture; Greater London; On-site; GBP 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

30 days vacation

Private medical insurance

Charitable leave

Job summary

Accenture is seeking an AI & Spatial Intelligence Lead in the UK to shape and deliver AI-first, geospatial solutions across utilities, energy, and infrastructure sectors. You will turn data into trusted decisions, lead engagements, and grow the pipeline while traveling to client sites.

You will guide data engineering, analytics, and AI initiatives, govern data products, and mentor multidisciplinary teams to deliver impactful outcomes for major capital programmes.

Qualifications

• Deep experience delivering AI, analytics, data engineering, or enterprise geospatial solutions.
• Strong ESRI ArcGIS and/or GE Smallworld expertise.
• Commercial consulting mindset: frame client problems, quantify value, shape propositions, and lead delivery.

Responsibilities

• Lead AI and spatial intelligence advisory, data strategy, architecture, experimentation, and implementation engagements from opportunity shaping through managed delivery.
• Architect end-to-end data flows and data products across GIS, EAM, CMMS, SCADA, IoT, imagery, and enterprise data platforms, ensuring quality, interoperability, lineage, and spatial integrity.
• Design and deploy analytics and AI solutions for network analysis, geostatistical modelling, anomaly detection, predictive risk scoring, computer vision, route optimisation, and investment optimisation.
• Define and implement intelligent agents that support planners, engineers, field teams, and executives through contextual search, scenario analysis, recommendations, workflow orchestration, and decision support.
• Lead enterprise GIS and spatial AI solutions using ESRI ArcGIS Pro, Enterprise and Utility Network, GE Smallworld, cloud data platforms, APIs, and modern AI services.
• Build and qualify a pipeline of AI and geospatial opportunities across AMP8, RIIO-3, and major capital programmes. Lead proposals, demonstrations, executive workshops, and value cases.
• Recruit and mentor multidisciplinary teams spanning AI, data engineering, analytics, GIS, architecture, and industry consulting.

Skills

AI/Spatial analytics

Data engineering

Machine learning

Geospatial intelligence

Cloud data platforms

Tools

ESRI ArcGIS Pro

GE Smallworld

APIs

Cloud data platforms

Job description

Accenture is seeking an AI & Spatial Intelligence Lead in the UK to shape and deliver AI-first, geospatial solutions across utilities, energy, and infrastructure sectors. You will turn data into trusted decisions, lead engagements, and grow the pipeline while traveling to client sites.

You will guide data engineering, analytics, and AI initiatives, govern data products, and mentor multidisciplinary teams to deliver impactful outcomes for major capital programmes.