AI & Data Strategy — Manager

Join our team in Technology Strategy & Transformation for an exciting career opportunity to enable our most strategic clients to realize exceptional business value from AI and Data.

Practice: Technology Strategy & Transformation, Global Network

Areas of Work: AI & Data Strategy

Level: Manager

Location: Bangalore / Gurugram / Mumbai / Pune / Chennai / Kolkata / Hyderabad

Years of Experience: 10 to 15 years

Explore an Exciting Career at Accenture

Do you believe in creating an impact? Are you a problem solver who enjoys working on transformative strategies for global clients? Are you passionate about being part of an inclusive, diverse and collaborative culture?

Then, this is the right place for you! Welcome to a host of exciting global opportunities in Accenture Technology Strategy & Transformation.

The Practice — A Brief Sketch

The Technology Strategy & Transformation Practice is a part of Accenture Strategy and focuses on the clients' most strategic priorities. We help clients achieve growth and efficiency through innovative R&D transformation, aimed at redefining business models using agile methodologies.

As part of this high-performing team, you will work on scaling AI — and the data that fuels it — to power every single person and every single process. You will be part of our global team of experts who work on the right scalable solutions and services that help clients achieve their business objectives faster.

Business Transformation: Assessment of AI & Data potential, identification of high-value AI use cases, and development of solutions that can transform business operations. Transforming Businesses: Envisioning and designing customised, next-generation data and AI products and services that help clients shift to new business models for today's connected landscape. Formulation of Guiding Principles and Components: Assessing impact to client's technology landscape/architecture and ensuring formulation of relevant guiding principles and platform components. Product and Frameworks: Evaluate existing AI & Data products and frameworks and develop options for proposed solutions.

Bring Your Best Skills Forward to Excel in the Role

• AI Value Assessment & Opportunity Identification: Leverage your knowledge of technology trends across AI & Data and conduct structured AI opportunity assessments — including AI use case identification, value mapping, industry benchmarking, and AI value diagnostics — to identify where AI creates real, measurable value for clients.
• Data & AI Readiness Assessment: Interact with client stakeholders to conduct data maturity assessments and AI readiness reviews, including data infrastructure review, gap analysis, and current-state diagnosis to set the foundation for AI adoption.
• AI Foundation Architecture: Design & guide development of enterprise-wide AI & Data strategy for clients, covering AI architecture design, platform strategy, data architecture, PDLC, foundation design, and cloud architecture to enable AI at scale.
• Strategic Roadmap & Business Case: Develop AI roadmaps, build quantitative and qualitative business cases, lead executive stakeholder engagement, and define value frameworks and prioritisation approaches to establish a fundable, board-level AI strategy.
• Data Governance & Quality: Establish frameworks for effective Data Governance across multi-speed implementations. Define data ownership, standards, policies, and associated processes; drive Data Capability Maturity Assessments and Data Operating Model design.
• Data Platform Strategy: Demonstrate a fair understanding of data platform strategy for cloud migrations, big data technologies, large-scale data lakes, and DW-on-cloud solutions leveraging platforms such as GCP, Azure, AWS, Snowflake, or Databricks.
• Stakeholder & Client Engagement: Conduct discovery workshops and design sessions to elicit AI & Data opportunities and client pain areas. Use advanced presentation, public speaking, and content creation skills for C-level discussions.
• Benchmarking & Industry Expertise: Benchmark against global research and leading industry peers to understand current state and recommend AI & Data solutions. Demonstrate strong understanding of a specific industry — Financial Services, Retail, Consumer Goods, Telecom, Life Sciences, or equivalent.
• Responsible AI: Have a deep understanding of Responsible AI frameworks and tools to engage clients in meaningful discussions and steer towards the right recommendations, including regulatory compliance and ethical AI considerations.
• Budgeting & Financial Proposals: Manage budgeting and forecasting activities and build financial proposals for AI & Data transformation engagements.

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Your Experience Counts!

• MBA from a tier 1 institute preferred.
• 5 – 7 years of Strategy Consulting experience at a consulting firm.
• 3+ years of experience on projects showcasing skills across: AI use case identification, AI value diagnostic, data maturity assessment, AI readiness, AI opportunity assessment, data infrastructure review, gap analysis, AI foundation architecture, AI roadmap, business case development, and executive stakeholder engagement.
• 3+ years of experience in designing end-to-end Enterprise AI & Data Strategic Solutions leveraging cloud and non-cloud platforms such as GCP (Vertex AI, BigQuery), Azure AI, AWS Bedrock, Snowflake, Databricks, or Palantir.
• Excellent understanding of Traditional AI, Generative AI, Agentic AI, and Advanced Cognitive methods to derive insights and actions.
• Deep understanding of data supply chain and building value realization frameworks for AI & Data transformations.
• 3+ years of experience leading or managing teams effectively including planning/structuring analytical work, facilitating team workshops, and developing Data & AI strategy recommendations as well as developing POCs.
• Experience in one or more technologies in the data governance space: Collibra, Talend, Informatica, SAP MDG, Alteryx, Alation, etc.
• Mandatory knowledge of IT & Enterprise architecture concepts through practical experience and knowledge of technology trends e.g. Cloud, API-first, Data Mesh, Digital Core.
• Foundational understanding of data privacy and Responsible AI frameworks is desired.
• CDMP Certification from DAMA preferred. Cloud AI/Data Practitioner Certifications (Azure, AWS, Google) desirable but not essential.

What's in It for You?

• An opportunity to work on transformative projects with key G2000 clients
• Potential to Co-create with leaders in strategy, industry experts, enterprise function practitioners and, business intelligence professionals to shape and recommend innovative solutions that leverage emerging technologies.
• Ability to embed responsible business into everything—from how you service your clients to how you operate as a responsible professional.
• Personalized training modules to develop your strategy & consulting acumen to grow your skills, industry knowledge and capabilities
• Opportunity to thrive in a culture that is committed to accelerate equality for all. Engage in boundaryless collaboration across the entire organization.

About Accenture

Accenture is a leading global professional services company, providing a broad range of services and solutions in strategy, consulting, digital, technology and operations. Combining unmatched experience and specialized skills across more than 40 industries and all business functions — underpinned by the world’s largest delivery network — Accenture works at the intersection of business and technology to help clients improve their performance and create sustainable value for their stakeholders. With 569,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries, Accenture drives innovation to improve the way the world works and lives. Visit us at www.accenture.com

About Accenture Strategy & Consulting

Accenture Strategy shapes our clients’ future, combining deep business insight with the understanding of how technology will impact industry and business models. Our focus on issues such as digital disruption, redefining competitiveness, operating and business models as well as the workforce of the future helps our clients find future value and growth in a digital world. Today, digital is changing the way organizations engage with their employees, business partners, customers and communities. This is our unique differentiator. To bring this global perspective to our clients, Accenture Strategy's services include those provided by our Global Network – a distributed management consulting organization that provides management consulting and strategy expertise across the client lifecycle. Our Global Network teams complement our in-country teams to deliver cutting-edge expertise and measurable value to clients all around the world. For more information visit https://www.accenture.com/us-en/Careers/capability-network 

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Bring Your Best Skills Forward to Excel in the Role

• AI Value Assessment & Opportunity Identification: Leverage your knowledge of technology trends across AI & Data and conduct structured AI opportunity assessments — including AI use case identification, value mapping, industry benchmarking, and AI value diagnostics — to identify where AI creates real, measurable value for clients.
• Data & AI Readiness Assessment: Interact with client stakeholders to conduct data maturity assessments and AI readiness reviews, including data infrastructure review, gap analysis, and current-state diagnosis to set the foundation for AI adoption.
• AI Foundation Architecture: Design & guide development of enterprise-wide AI & Data strategy for clients, covering AI architecture design, platform strategy, data architecture, PDLC, foundation design, and cloud architecture to enable AI at scale.
• Strategic Roadmap & Business Case: Develop AI roadmaps, build quantitative and qualitative business cases, lead executive stakeholder engagement, and define value frameworks and prioritisation approaches to establish a fundable, board-level AI strategy.
• Data Governance & Quality: Establish frameworks for effective Data Governance across multi-speed implementations. Define data ownership, standards, policies, and associated processes; drive Data Capability Maturity Assessments and Data Operating Model design.
• Data Platform Strategy: Demonstrate a fair understanding of data platform strategy for cloud migrations, big data technologies, large-scale data lakes, and DW-on-cloud solutions leveraging platforms such as GCP, Azure, AWS, Snowflake, or Databricks.
• Stakeholder & Client Engagement: Conduct discovery workshops and design sessions to elicit AI & Data opportunities and client pain areas. Use advanced presentation, public speaking, and content creation skills for C-level discussions.
• Benchmarking & Industry Expertise: Benchmark against global research and leading industry peers to understand current state and recommend AI & Data solutions. Demonstrate strong understanding of a specific industry — Financial Services, Retail, Consumer Goods, Telecom, Life Sciences, or equivalent.
• Responsible AI: Have a deep understanding of Responsible AI frameworks and tools to engage clients in meaningful discussions and steer towards the right recommendations, including regulatory compliance and ethical AI considerations.
• Budgeting & Financial Proposals: Manage budgeting and forecasting activities and build financial proposals for AI & Data transformation engagements.

About Accenture

Accenture is a leading global professional services company that helps the world’s leading businesses, governments and other organizations build their digital core, optimize their operations, accelerate revenue growth and enhance citizen services—creating tangible value at speed and scale. We are a talent- and innovation-led company with approximately 791,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries. Technology is at the core of change today, and we are one of the world’s leaders in helping drive that change, with strong ecosystem relationships. We combine our strength in technology and leadership in cloud, data and AI with unmatched industry experience, functional expertise and global delivery capability. Our broad range of services, solutions and assets across Strategy & Consulting, Technology, Operations, Industry X and Song, together with our culture of shared success and commitment to creating 360° value, enable us to help our clients reinvent and build trusted, lasting relationships. We measure our success by the 360° value we create for our clients, each other, our shareholders, partners and communities.

Visit us at www.accenture.com 

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