AI Consultant - Banking

NTT DATA; Karnataka; On-site; INR 1,800,000 - 2,400,000; Full time

Job summary

NTT DATA is seeking an AI Consultant - Banking to join our team in Bangalore, Karnataka, India. This client-facing role focuses on identifying AI transformation opportunities, shaping AI strategy, and developing adoption roadmaps that deliver measurable business value.

You will partner with AI Architects, Delivery teams, and ecosystems to create compelling proposals, ROI models, and executive-ready materials, while staying current on enterprise AI trends and responsible AI practices.

Qualifications

• 3+ years in consulting, professional services, or related client-facing roles.
• 1+ years shaping AI, data, ML, GenAI, or digital transformation initiatives.
• Strong strategy acumen and executive narrative development.
• Experience supporting presales activities and deal reviews.
• Knowledge of enterprise AI concepts, LLMs, AI agents, governance.
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience.

Responsibilities

• Identify AI transformation opportunities and value cases with clients.
• Shape AI strategy, operating model, governance, adoption roadmaps.
• Translate client needs into AI solutions with cross-functional teams.
• Develop proposals, ROI models, and executive-ready materials.
• Support opportunity qualification and transition to delivery.
• Lead workshops and stakeholder interviews for roadmaps.
• Stay current on AI trends and partner capabilities.

Skills

AI strategy

Client advisory

Pre-sales

Operating model

Executive communication

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience

Job description

We are currently seeking a AI Consultant - Banking to join our team in Bangalore, Karnātaka (IN-KA), India (IN).

AI Consultant

NTT DATA is a trusted global innovator of business and technology services, helping clients innovate, optimize, and transform for success. We strive to hire exceptional, innovative, and passionate individuals who want to grow with us.

Overview

The AI Consultant is a client-facing advisor within the AI Go-to-Market organization responsible for identifying, shaping, and mobilizing AI transformation opportunities. This role combines strategy acumen, AI fluency, structured consulting methods, and commercial orientation to help clients define AI value cases, operating models, roadmaps, and adoption approaches. The AI Consultant partners with AI Architects, Forward-Deployed Engineering, Delivery, Sellers, ecosystem partners, and Geo and Industry leaders to convert client priorities into qualified opportunities and successful engagements.

Key Responsibilities

• Act as a trusted client advisor to identify AI transformation opportunities, business pain points, and value cases.
• Shape AI strategy, target operating model, governance, adoption, responsible AI, and transformation roadmaps for clients.
• Translate client needs into practical AI solutions in partnership with architects, FDE, delivery, and partner teams.
• Develop proposals, business cases, ROI models, proof-of-concept plans, and executive-ready client materials.
• Support opportunity qualification, deal shaping, solutioning, mobilization, and transition into delivery.
• Lead and support structured consulting activities, including workshops, stakeholder interviews, assessments, prioritization exercises, and roadmap development.
• Bring a strategic lens to client conversations, connecting AI use cases to operating model change, business outcomes, adoption, and measurable enterprise value.
• Reuse and improve global GTM assets, offering content, credentials, delivery patterns, and client-facing narratives.
• Stay current on AI, agentic AI, enterprise adoption trends, responsible AI, and partner capabilities to strengthen client advisory quality.

Success Measures

• Personal sales contribution or qualified pipeline contribution, as applicable by career level.
• Utilization or billability against target.
• Quality of client deliverables, proposal contribution, stakeholder feedback, and reuse of global GTM assets.
• Contribution to downstream implementation opportunities and successful client mobilization.

Basic Qualifications

• 3+ years of professional experience in consulting, professional services, strategy, transformation, AI, data, analytics, or related client-facing roles.
• 1+ years of experience shaping or delivering AI, data science, machine learning, GenAI, agentic AI, analytics, or digital transformation initiatives. Experience may be demonstrated through client delivery, on-the-job AI work, a data science background, or an advanced degree.
• Demonstrated strategy acumen, including business model analysis, operating model design, value case development, transformation planning, and executive narrative development.
• Experience supporting presales activities such as opportunity identification, solution shaping, proposal development, business case creation, or executive-level deal reviews.
• Working knowledge of enterprise AI concepts, including LLMs, AI agents, RAG, ML lifecycle, data readiness, responsible AI, governance, and adoption considerations.
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience.

Preferred Skills

• Master's degree, MBA, data science degree, AI/ML…