Senior AI Delivery Lead for Complex Engagements

NTT DATA, Inc.; Plano (TX); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 250,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

HSAs/FSAs

401(k) with company match

Paid time off

Job summary

NTT DATA, Inc. is seeking an AI Engagement Leader to drive end-to-end delivery of complex client AI engagements.

You will orchestrate cross-functional teams across architecture, data science, and security to achieve measurable business outcomes with governance and disciplined scope control. You will own engagement economics, staffing, and risk management while maintaining client confidence and ensuring value realization through production releases and stabilization.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in technology consulting or equivalent with leadership of complex client engagements.
• Experience delivering AI, data, cloud, or enterprise transformation initiatives.
• Strong financial and commercial management capabilities.
• Proven ability to build trusted relationships with senior client stakeholders and lead governance.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end delivery of assigned AI engagements from mobilization through production release and value realization.
• Translate client outcomes and contractual commitments into clear delivery plans with milestones and ownership.
• Serve as the primary day-to-day delivery leader for client stakeholders with transparent communication.
• Establish and run governance, RAID management, financial reviews, and escalation processes.
• Own engagement financial health including revenue, cost, margin, forecast, burn, and staffing.
• Maintain scope discipline and manage unfunded/out-of-scope activity with appropriate commercial conversations.
• Lead multidisciplinary delivery pods across architects, engineers, data scientists, PMs, and security teams.
• Scale delivery capacity by onboarding resources and aligning with global capability teams.
• Identify delivery risks and provide mitigation plans and escalation when needed.
• Collaborate with Principal AI Domain Technical Leader to resolve dependencies and balance technical trade-offs.
• Ensure adherence to global AI Studio delivery standards and governance.

Skills

Leadership

Client engagement

AI/Cloud/digital delivery

Financial management

Stakeholder management

Distributed teams

Agile/Hybrid/PM

Technical fluency

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent

Job description

NTT DATA, Inc. is seeking an AI Engagement Leader to drive end-to-end delivery of complex client AI engagements.

You will orchestrate cross-functional teams across architecture, data science, and security to achieve measurable business outcomes with governance and disciplined scope control. You will own engagement economics, staffing, and risk management while maintaining client confidence and ensuring value realization through production releases and stabilization.