#ACN S&C GN - Tech Strategy & Transformation - AI & Data Strategy - Manager

Accenture in India; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 3,000,000 - 6,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Accenture in India seeks an AI & Data Strategy Manager to help clients realize value from AI and data through strategic roadmaps, governance, and scalable architectures. You will work across multiple industries with senior stakeholders to shape and deliver transformative AI initiatives.

Join a global network within Technology Strategy & Transformation to drive responsible AI adoption, data-driven decisions, and competitive advantage for leading clients in India and beyond.

Qualifications

• 10–15 years of experience in AI and data strategy.
• Experience in AI & Data transformation engagements.
• Strong stakeholder management and executive communication.
• Industry benchmarking across Financial Services, Retail, Telecom, Life Sciences or similar.

Responsibilities

• Lead AI value assessment and identify high-value use cases.
• Conduct data maturity assessments and AI readiness reviews.
• Design enterprise AI & data architecture and foundation.
• Develop strategic roadmaps and fundable business cases.
• Establish data governance and operating models.
• Define data platform strategy for cloud migrations and data lakes.
• Engage stakeholders and guide C-level discussions.
• Benchmark industry trends and propose AI/data solutions.
• Incorporate Responsible AI considerations into client recommendations.
• Prepare budgets and financial proposals for engagements.

Skills

AI value assessment

Data readiness assessment

AI foundation architecture

Roadmap & business case

Data governance

Data platform strategy

Stakeholder engagement

Industry benchmarking

Responsible AI

Budgeting

Tools

GCP

Azure

AWS

Snowflake

Databricks

Job description

AI & Data Strategy — Manager

Join our team in Technology Strategy & Transformation for an exciting career opportunity to enable our most strategic clients to realize exceptional business value from AI and Data.

• Practice: Technology Strategy & Transformation, Global Network
• Areas of Work: AI & Data Strategy
• Level: Manager
• Location: Bangalore / Gurugram / Mumbai / Pune / Chennai / Kolkata / Hyderabad
• Years of Experience: 10 to 15 years

Explore an Exciting Career at Accenture

Do you believe in creating an impact? Are you a problem solver who enjoys working on transformative strategies for global clients? Are you passionate about being part of an inclusive, diverse and collaborative culture? Then, this is the right place for you! Welcome to a host of exciting global opportunities in Accenture Technology Strategy & Transformation.

The Practice — A Brief Sketch

The Technology Strategy & Transformation Practice is a part of Accenture Strategy and focuses on the clients' most strategic priorities. We help clients achieve growth and efficiency through innovative R&D transformation, aimed at redefining business models using agile methodologies.

As part of this high-performing team, you will work on scaling AI — and the data that fuels it — to power every single person and every single process. You will be part of our global team of experts who work on the right scalable solutions and services that help clients achieve their business objectives faster.

Business Transformation: Assessment of AI & Data potential, identification of high-value AI use cases, and development of solutions that can transform business operations. Transforming Businesses: Envisioning and designing customised, next-generation data and AI products and services that help clients shift to new business models for today's connected landscape. Formulation of Guiding Principles and Components: Assessing impact to client's technology landscape/architecture and ensuring formulation of relevant guiding principles and platform components. Product and Frameworks: Evaluate existing AI & Data products and frameworks and develop options for proposed solutions.

Bring Your Best Skills Forward to Excel in the Role

• AI Value Assessment & Opportunity Identification: Leverage your knowledge of technology trends across AI & Data and conduct structured AI opportunity assessments — including AI use case identification, value mapping, industry benchmarking, and AI value diagnostics — to identify where AI creates real, measurable value for clients.
• Data & AI Readiness Assessment: Interact with client stakeholders to conduct data maturity assessments and AI readiness reviews, including data infrastructure review, gap analysis, and current-state diagnosis to set the foundation for AI adoption.
• AI Foundation Architecture: Design & guide development of enterprise-wide AI & Data strategy for clients, covering AI architecture design, platform strategy, data architecture, PDLC, foundation design, and cloud architecture to enable AI at scale.
• Strategic Roadmap & Business Case: Develop AI roadmaps, build quantitative and qualitative business cases, lead executive stakeholder engagement, and define value frameworks and prioritisation approaches to establish a fundable, board-level AI strategy.
• Data Governance & Quality: Establish frameworks for effective Data Governance across multi-speed implementations. Define data ownership, standards, policies, and associated processes; drive Data Capability Maturity Assessments and Data Operating Model design.
• Data Platform Strategy: Demonstrate a fair understanding of data platform strategy for cloud migrations, big data technologies, large-scale data lakes, and DW-on-cloud solutions leveraging platforms such as GCP, Azure, AWS, Snowflake, or Databricks.
• Stakeholder & Client Engagement: Conduct discovery workshops and design sessions to elicit AI & Data opportunities and client pain areas. Use advanced presentation, public speaking, and content creation skills for C-level discussions.
• Benchmarking & Industry Expertise: Benchmark against global research and leading industry peers to understand current state and recommend AI & Data solutions. Demonstrate strong understanding of a specific industry — Financial Services, Retail, Consumer Goods, Telecom, Life Sciences, or equivalent.
• Responsible AI: Have a deep understanding of Responsible AI frameworks and tools to engage clients in meaningful discussions and steer towards the right recommendations, including regulatory compliance and ethical AI considerations.
• Budgeting & Financial Proposals: Manage budgeting and forecasting activities and build financial proposals for AI & Data transformation engagements.

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What's in It for You?

• An opportunity to work on transformative projects with key G2000 clients
• Potential to Co-create with leaders in strategy, industry experts, enterprise function practitioners and, business intelligence professionals to shape and recommend innovative solutions that leverage emerging technologies.
• Ability to embed responsible business into everything—from how you service your clients to how you operate as a responsible professional.
• Personalized training modules to develop your strategy & consulting acumen to grow your skills, industry knowledge and capabilities
• Opportunity to thrive in a culture that is committed to accelerate equality for all. Engage in boundaryless collaboration across the entire organization.

About Accenture

Accenture is a leading global professional services company, providing a broad range of services and solutions in strategy, consulting, digital, technology and operations. Combining unmatched experience and specialized skills across more than 40 industries and all business functions — underpinned by the world’s largest delivery network — Accenture works at the intersection of business and technology to help clients improve their performance and create sustainable value for their stakeholders. With 569,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries, Accenture drives innovation to improve the way the world works and lives. Visit us at www.accenture.com

About Accenture Strategy & Consulting

Accenture Strategy shapes our clients’ future, combining deep business insight with the understanding of how technology will impact industry and business models. Our focus on issues such as digital disruption, redefining competitiveness, operating and business models as well as the workforce of the future helps our clients find future value and growth in a digital world. Today, digital is changing the way organizations engage with their employees, business partners, customers and communities. This is our unique differentiator. To bring this global perspective to our clients, Accenture Strategy's services include those provided by our Global Network – a distributed management consulting organization that provides management consulting and strategy expertise across the client lifecycle. Our Global Network teams complement our in-country teams to deliver cutting‑edge expertise and measurable value to clients all around the world. For more information visit https://www.accenture.com/us-en/Careers/capability-network

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