Architect of Intelligence & Business Value

Keyrus; Lisboa; Hybrid; EUR 60,000 - 85,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Meal allowance €10.20/day

Flexible benefits plan

Private medical insurance

22 days annual leave (increasing)

Job summary

Keyrus Portugal is seeking an AI Business Value Advisor to help clients transform complexity into measurable outcomes by combining technology, data, intelligence, and human decision-making. This senior, business-focused role blends strategy, AI fluency, and leadership of client engagements, with monthly travel to Lisbon or Madrid, a hybrid work model, and a compensation range of €60k–€85k gross per year.

You will shape business architectures, develop value cases, and guide delivery teams to

Qualifications

• Degree in Business, Economics, Engineering or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.
• Typically 8+ years of deep expertise in the industry, with practical understanding of its processes, decisions, performance drivers and constraints.
• Strong experience in business consulting, industry consulting, transformation, operational improvement, product or service strategy, or a comparable client-side role.
• Availability for monthly travel to Lisbon or Madrid.
• Professional fluency in Portuguese, Spanish and English, written and spoken.

Responsibilities

• Lead business and operational discovery, owning client-facing phases such as discovery and value reviews, and working with senior stakeholders, frontline teams and subject-matter experts to find the real problems behind an initial request.
• Analyse and redesign processes and decision flows, identifying where human judgement, data, automation and intelligent capabilities should interact differently.
• Build and prioritise a portfolio of AI opportunities, assessing business relevance, expected value, feasibility, adoption, risk, data readiness and operating-model impact.
• Develop clear value cases and success measures, establishing baselines, expected benefits, assumptions, dependencies and KPIs, with finance specialists where detailed modelling is needed.
• Translate selected opportunities into actionable business definitions: problem statements, process requirements, decision logic, user needs, acceptance criteria and intended outcomes.
• Create adoption and operating-model roadmaps, covering the changes in roles, processes, decision rights, ways of working and human oversight that intelligent capabilities require.
• Guide multidisciplinary delivery teams on business context and priorities, working with Forward Deployed Engineers, architects, AI, Software and Data Engineers and AI Governance specialists without taking over their decision rights.
• Review business outcomes through delivery and adoption, using agreed KPIs and operational evidence to decide whether an initiative should continue, change direction, expand or stop.

Skills

Stakeholder engagement

Strategic thinking

Business consulting

Multilingual

Education

Degree in Business, Economics, Engineering or related field

Job description

Keyrus Portugal is seeking an AI Business Value Advisor to help clients transform complexity into measurable outcomes by combining technology, data, intelligence, and human decision-making. This senior, business-focused role blends strategy, AI fluency, and leadership of client engagements, with monthly travel to Lisbon or Madrid, a hybrid work model, and a compensation range of €60k–€85k gross per year.

You will shape business architectures, develop value cases, and guide delivery teams to