Senior AI Transformation Architect | Lead AI-First Change

Palo IT; Italia; On-site; EUR 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

PALO IT is seeking a Senior AI Transformation Consultant to join the Gen-e2 Pilots & Transformation team. You will shape transformation roadmaps, align stakeholders, guide teams through new ways of working, and ensure AI initiatives deliver measurable business value.

You will lead AI pilot programs and coach delivery teams across the SDLC in client environments. Must possess hands-on experience with AI-augmented SDLC, stakeholder management, and ability to communicate complex concepts to

Qualifications

• Familiarity with modern AI tooling ecosystems (coding assistants, MCP servers, agent frameworks).
• Hands-on experience with AI-augmented SDLC and transformation programs.
• Strong stakeholder management and facilitation skills.
• Ability to communicate technical concepts clearly to non-technical stakeholders.
• Experience driving change, roadmaps, and KPI-focused outcomes.
• Comfort operating in ambiguous, fast-moving client environments.

Responsibilities

• Lead or co-lead AI pilot and transformation programs end-to-end: scoping, delivery, measurement, iterating and pivoting.
• Work embedded in client delivery teams, coaching engineers, product owners, business analysts and delivery leads on AI-augmented product discovery and delivery practices.
• Identify and track meaningful metrics — productivity uplift, backlog quality, cycle time — to demonstrate and sustain value for the client.
• Lead the discovery work that opens an engagement: assess the client's current SDLC and constraints, appetite for change and select real use cases from their backlog.
• Design and facilitate the development of transformation roadmaps for clients, sequencing capability building, tooling adoption, and organisational change across waves.
• Support the setup and operationalisation of client AI Centre of Excellence (CoE): governance models, ways of working, role definitions, and capability frameworks.
• Collaborate with PALO IT practice leads to evolve the methodology based on field learnings.
• Co-Design and build AI toolchains with our Gen-e2 Engineers — agentic workflows, MCP integrations, AI-assisted SDLC pipelines — deployed in real client environments.

Skills

AI tooling

AI-augmented SDLC

Stakeholder management

Facilitation & training

Change management & roadmapping

Technical communication

Adaptability in ambiguity

Agile & Lean

Systems thinking

Job description

PALO IT is seeking a Senior AI Transformation Consultant to join the Gen-e2 Pilots & Transformation team. You will shape transformation roadmaps, align stakeholders, guide teams through new ways of working, and ensure AI initiatives deliver measurable business value.

You will lead AI pilot programs and coach delivery teams across the SDLC in client environments. Must possess hands-on experience with AI-augmented SDLC, stakeholder management, and ability to communicate complex concepts to