Senior Data & AI Strategy Consultant

Tata Consultancy Services Limited; Santa Clara (CA); On-site; USD 161,000 - 220,000; Full time

Job summary

Tata Consultancy Services Limited in Santa Clara, CA is seeking a Senior Data & AI Consultant to shape account-level Data and AI agendas and lead advisory engagements. You will drive roadmaps, design architectures, and mentor teams across CoE and delivery units.

The role is senior and customer-facing, combining strategic guidance with hands-on solution design across data engineering, governance, GenAI, and modern data platforms to deliver measurable business outcomes on the US West Coast.

Qualifications

• Demonstrated senior-level experience in Data and AI consulting, solution architecture, and customer-facing technology leadership.
• Working knowledge of data engineering pipelines, cloud-native tools and governance concepts.
• Hands-on experience with GenAI, LLMs and enterprise AI patterns.
• Experience leading or building a Data & AI practice or CoE with client-facing delivery.

Responsibilities

• Build trusted relationships with customer data, analytics, AI and platform leaders; assess priorities and define transformation roadmaps.
• Shape modern data architectures covering ingestion, lakehouse/warehouse, streaming and data serving.
• Advise on governance, metadata, cataloging, data quality, lineage and security for enterprise data and AI readiness.
• Lead discovery and design for ML, GenAI and agentic use cases; establish architecture, evaluation and guardrails.
• Plan and facilitate Data and AI discovery sessions, architecture workshops and use-case prioritization.

Skills

Data & AI consulting

Solution architecture

Python & SQL

Spark PySpark

ETL/ELT

Kafka

Databricks

Snowflake

GenAI engineering

LangChain

LangGraph

MLOps

Docker Kubernetes

PyTorch TensorFlow

Data governance

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science/Engineering

Master's or PhD desirable

Tools

Databricks

Snowflake

Pinecone

Weaviate

Milvus

Job description

Tata Consultancy Services Limited in Santa Clara, CA is seeking a Senior Data & AI Consultant to shape account-level Data and AI agendas and lead advisory engagements. You will drive roadmaps, design architectures, and mentor teams across CoE and delivery units.

The role is senior and customer-facing, combining strategic guidance with hands-on solution design across data engineering, governance, GenAI, and modern data platforms to deliver measurable business outcomes on the US West Coast.