Senior Data Strategy & AI Enablement Lead

Torq; Plano (TX); On-site; USD 105,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Unlimited PTO

Health/vision/dental benefits

401K options

Parental Leave

Internal mobility

Job summary

Torq is seeking experienced data strategy and functional data consultants to help clients connect data, analytics, and AI investments to meaningful business value. You will define future-state data ecosystems, establish governance, and create executable roadmaps across data, analytics, and AI initiatives.

You will translate business needs into data and technology requirements, engage senior stakeholders, and stay connected to delivery through implementation.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in data strategy, analytics consulting, management consulting, data governance, business analysis, data product management, digital transformation, or a related client-facing field.
• Experience leading workstreams or significant deliverables within complex business and technology initiatives.
• Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to structure ambiguous challenges, identify root causes, and develop practical recommendations.
• Strong executive communication and storytelling skills, including experience creating and presenting clear recommendations to senior stakeholders.
• Experience planning and facilitating interviews, workshops, working sessions, and cross-functional decision-making processes.
• Ability to translate between business objectives, functional needs, data requirements, and technical considerations.

Responsibilities

• Lead workstreams across data strategy, analytics strategy, AI readiness, data governance, operating-model design, and data-platform transformation initiatives.
• Partner with business and technology leaders to understand strategic priorities, operational pain points, decision-making needs, and opportunities for data and AI.
• Assess current-state data ecosystems across people, process, technology, governance, architecture, quality, and adoption.
• Identify the business, data, and organizational barriers preventing clients from scaling analytics and AI use cases.
• Facilitate executive interviews, stakeholder workshops, discovery sessions, working groups, and prioritization exercises.
• Define data and AI visions, strategic principles, target-state capabilities, maturity models, and transformation roadmaps.
• Identify, evaluate, and prioritize analytics and AI use cases based on business value, feasibility, data readiness, risk, and organizational capacity.
• Develop business cases, investment recommendations, value frameworks, KPIs, and success measures for data and AI initiatives.
• Design data operating models that clarify ownership, decision rights, governance bodies, delivery responsibilities, and interactions between business and technology teams.
• Establish practical data-governance frameworks covering ownership, stewardship, quality, metadata, security, privacy, access, and lifecycle management.

Skills

Data strategy

Analytics consulting

Management consulting

Data governance

Business analysis

Data product management

Digital transformation

Stakeholder management

Senior stakeholder communication

Leadership of junior consultants

Education

Four-year degree in Business, Information Systems, Data Science, Computer Science, Engineering, Economics, Finance

Tools

SQL

Job description

Torq is seeking experienced data strategy and functional data consultants to help clients connect data, analytics, and AI investments to meaningful business value. You will define future-state data ecosystems, establish governance, and create executable roadmaps across data, analytics, and AI initiatives.

You will translate business needs into data and technology requirements, engage senior stakeholders, and stay connected to delivery through implementation.