Strategic Data & AI Advisory Leader

Presidio, Inc; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Presidio is hiring a Client Principal, Digital Data, Analytics and AI to lead executive discovery, opportunity strategy, and shaping solutions for enterprise data and AI engagements. You will partner with account teams, architects, delivery leaders, and technology partners to translate complex business challenges into viable data-driven offerings, with limited travel.

You will guide end-to-end architectures, drive proposals and SOWs, and ensure delivery readiness while fostering a data-first

Qualifications

• 15+ years in data, analytics, software engineering, cloud architecture, consulting, or a related field.
• Significant client-facing technical presales experience as an architect, principal consultant, or senior solution leader.
• Delivery leadership experience in customer implementation and technical delivery.
• Proven ability to lead executive workshops, define solutions, write proposals and SOWs, and estimate delivery.
• ETL/ELT patterns across batch, streaming, and event-driven pipelines; lakehouse and modern warehouse concepts.
• Modeling for operational, analytical, semantic, and AI workloads; database modernization or platform migration experience.
• Enterprise BI, semantic modeling, and ML lifecycle/MLOps experience.
• RAG, agents, grounding, evaluation, guardrails, and responsible AI.
• Ability to advise across AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud and select services based on customer needs.
• Data governance, cataloging, lineage, quality, and security-by-design fluency.
• Working knowledge of scope, schedule, staffing, assumptions, dependencies, risk, margin, and delivery feasibility.

Responsibilities

• Lead executive discovery, envisioning, assessments, and workshops; translate ambiguous problems into prioritized use cases, data products, and measurable outcomes.
• Build relationships across business, data, application, security, and cloud teams; partner with account teams on opportunity qualification and account strategy.
• Define end-to-end architectures across ingestion, integration, storage, transformation, governance, analytics, ML, and GenAI, with depth in modern data platforms.
• Create proposals and SOWs with clear scope, staffing, estimates, risks, and dependencies.
• Ensure proposed approaches are viable, secure, supportable, outcome-aligned, and ready for delivery.
• Shape database, data platform, and cloud modernization roadmaps with hyperscaler and technology partners; maintain platform-neutral posture.
• Provide architectural leadership through discovery, proof-of-value, pilot, and early implementation; mitigate technical risk.
• Document outcomes, assumptions, decisions, estimates, and acceptance criteria for transition to delivery.
• Recommend analytics, ML, AI, or GenAI when appropriate, including RAG, agents, grounding, evaluation, and guardrails.
• Data governance, cataloging, lineage, quality, and security-by-design fluency.

Skills

Data-first mindset

Executive presence

Storyteller

Resilient & determined

Builder mindset

15+ years experience

Tools

Snowflake

Databricks

Microsoft Fabric

AWS

Azure

Google Cloud

Job description

Presidio is hiring a Client Principal, Digital Data, Analytics and AI to lead executive discovery, opportunity strategy, and shaping solutions for enterprise data and AI engagements. You will partner with account teams, architects, delivery leaders, and technology partners to translate complex business challenges into viable data-driven offerings, with limited travel.

You will guide end-to-end architectures, drive proposals and SOWs, and ensure delivery readiness while fostering a data-first