Data Platforms Practice Lead - AI and Data Governance

World-Wide-Technology; United States; Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health & Wellness

Profit Sharing

401k Plan with Company Matching

Tuition Reimbursement

PTO & Holidays

Parental Leave

Employee Discount Program

Job summary

World Wide Technology is seeking a Senior Practice Manager, Data Platforms to leads AI data readiness and data governance initiatives within Applied AI. You will build and lead a team of technical solution architects, drive GTM strategy, and shape advisory engagements across hyperscalers and data platforms.

This role partners with security, FinOps, and sales, delivering reference architectures, demos, and governance frameworks aligned to NIST RMF and EU AI Act.

Qualifications

• 5+ years leading a specialty technical pre-sales or solutions team.
• 8+ years in data and analytics, data engineering, or data platform architecture.
• 7–10 years of technical sales experience or equivalent.
• Cloud or data platform certifications, FinOps or AI governance credentials.

Responsibilities

• Develop and execute the Data Platforms GTM strategy, including AI data readiness, data governance for AI, and data platform modernization.
• Lead, coach, and develop the team, using tools such as the Job Performance Matrix to manage performance, development, and engagement.
• Build and productize data readiness assessments that convert into advisory and delivery engagements.
• Support data platform partner execution, including joint sales plays, co-sell motions, enablement, and pipeline development with hyperscaler, data platform, and AI infrastructure partners.
• Help define reference architectures, workshops, briefings, and demos covering structured and unstructured data, retrieval pipelines, semantic layers, and governed data access for AI agents.
• Establish governance frameworks aligned to NIST AI RMF, the EU AI Act, and sector-specific requirements, including lineage, classification, and policy enforcement.
• Partner with security and FinOps teams on data security posture and consumption cost governance across data platforms.
• Drive field enablement through virtual teams, roadshows, and all-hands meetings, and provide business leadership to sales teams on account profiling and sales plays with CDO, CDAO, CIO, and CISO stakeholders.
• Drive the team in creating technical proposals, leveraging Professional Services, Global Supply Chain, and ATC Labs and the AI Proving Ground to enable complete solutions.
• Contribute to practice marketing strategy and own content and topic strategy for the practice on the digital platform.
• Influence the technical resource plan and technical business plan for the practice, compiling customer, partner, and account team feedback with market and industry trends.
• Track and report team metrics, including notables, opportunities, and big bets.
• Collaborate with the Workforce AI, AI-Native Engineering, and AI practices so data readiness is built into each practice's offerings.
• Represent WWT at industry events, including AI Days, and lead sessions with customers and partners.
• Advocate for continual improvement in partner experience to build brand loyalty and value.
• Be a culture contributor and builder

Skills

Technical pre-sales leadership

Data & analytics expertise

Technical sales experience

Cloud/data platform certifications

Tools

Salesforce

Tableau

Microsoft Office

Job description

World Wide Technology is seeking a Senior Practice Manager, Data Platforms to leads AI data readiness and data governance initiatives within Applied AI. You will build and lead a team of technical solution architects, drive GTM strategy, and shape advisory engagements across hyperscalers and data platforms.

This role partners with security, FinOps, and sales, delivering reference architectures, demos, and governance frameworks aligned to NIST RMF and EU AI Act.