[Remote] Senior Managing Consultant - Data & AI (Wayfinders Consulting)

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Fujitsu Limited is a pioneering technology and innovation company committed to making the world more sustainable. They are seeking a Senior Managing Consultant - Data & AI to lead complex AI and data engagements, ensuring that initiatives translate into durable business outcomes and guiding teams in the application of AI to real business problems.

Responsibilities

• Own day-to-day client leadership for complex AI and data engagements
• Partner with client business, data, and technology leaders to frame problems and define success metrics
• Translate business objectives into executable AI and data delivery plans and roadmaps
• Manage scope, risks, dependencies, and stakeholder expectations throughout the engagement lifecycle
• Provide hands-on technical leadership across AI and data workstreams without being the primary engineer
• Guide solution design across data pipelines, ML models, LLM-based systems, agents, and orchestration layers
• Validate architectural decisions for scalability, reliability, security, and maintainability
• Drive alignment on when to use rules-based logic, ML, LLMs, or hybrid approaches
• Act as the first escalation point for complex technical, architectural, or delivery challenges
• Lead teams of Managing Consultants, Senior Consultants, and Consultants across multiple workstreams
• Ensure engineering discipline, testing, and MLOps practices are applied consistently
• Oversee deployment, monitoring, and lifecycle management of AI systems in production
• Ensure Responsible AI, data governance, and security standards are upheld
• Coach and develop delivery leaders and high-potential team members
• Set clear expectations for technical quality, delivery rigor, and professional growth
• Support staffing, onboarding, and performance management in partnership with leadership
• Support opportunity shaping, proposals, and client expansion efforts
• Contribute to development of reusable delivery patterns, playbooks, and accelerators
• Share lessons learned and best practices across the Wayfinders community

Skills

• 6–10 years of experience in consulting or equivalent industry delivery leadership roles
• Proven ownership of complex data, analytics, or AI engagements
• Bachelor's degree required; advanced degree preferred
• Strong understanding of modern AI and data systems, including: Cloud-based data platforms and pipelines, ML and advanced analytics solutions, LLM-based systems (prompting, RAG, agents), Orchestration, deployment, and monitoring patterns
• Ability to assess and guide architectural and tooling decisions without needing to code daily
• Experience delivering production AI systems with attention to reliability, drift, and operational risk
• Working knowledge of MLOps, Responsible AI, and enterprise data governance
• Strong client-facing communication and stakeholder management skills
• Ability to lead cross-functional teams and manage ambiguity
• Structured problem solving with a bias toward action and outcomes
• Ability to balance speed, quality, and technical debt

Benefits

• Short-term incentive based on company results and individual performance
• Full range of health, 401K, and other benefits

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