Data & AI Consultant
- Location: Canada (Saskatchewan) – Remote
- Pay Rate: $120/hr
- Contract Length: 6 Months
We at Raise are hiring a Data & AI Consultant for one of our top clients. After establishing themselves as an industry leader, they’re now expanding their team to meet rising demand. We’re hiring right now; if you’re interested, apply below for your chance to join a great place to work.
Responsibilities:
Stakeholder Management & Executive Engagement
- Establish and maintain strong relationships with executive sponsors, business leaders, technology teams, delivery partners, and client stakeholders to ensure alignment across strategic objectives and program priorities.
- Act as the primary point of contact for senior leadership and client executives, providing clear communication on program status, business value realization, risks, dependencies, and strategic decisions.
- Facilitate executive steering committees, governance forums, and stakeholder workshops to drive decision-making, alignment, and accountability across Data & AI initiatives.
- Translate complex technical concepts related to Microsoft Fabric, data platforms, analytics, and AI into business-focused outcomes for non-technical stakeholders.
- Drive stakeholder engagement and adoption strategies to ensure successful organizational change management, user enablement, and long-term platform adoption.
- Manage stakeholder expectations by proactively identifying communication gaps, conflicting priorities, organizational impacts, and escalation points.
Scope Management & Delivery Governance
- Define, manage, and control program scope across multiple workstreams to ensure alignment with business objectives, contractual commitments, and delivery timelines.
- Lead scope planning and prioritization activities, ensuring requirements are clearly documented, validated, and aligned with enterprise transformation goals.
- Assess and manage scope changes, change requests, and evolving business requirements while balancing delivery timelines, budget constraints, technical feasibility, and business value.
- Implement governance processes for scope control, milestone tracking, dependency management, and delivery quality assurance.
- Coordinate with architecture, engineering, analytics, and AI teams to ensure solution scope is technically achievable, scalable, and aligned to Microsoft Fabric best practices.
- Identify and mitigate delivery risks associated with scope creep, resource constraints, integration dependencies, and evolving stakeholder requirements.
- Ensure alignment between program scope, data governance policies, security requirements, compliance standards, and enterprise architecture frameworks.
- Drive program transparency through executive dashboards, status reporting, RAID logs, and governance reviews to maintain visibility into delivery health and business outcomes.
- Lead end-to-end delivery of Data & AI programs across planning, execution, governance, risk management, and business adoption.
- Partner with clients to define data modernization and AI transformation roadmaps aligned to business objectives and enterprise architecture strategies.
- Serve as the trusted advisor for Microsoft Fabric implementations, helping clients design and operationalize scalable analytics, reporting, and AI-enabled data solutions.
- Coordinate cross-functional delivery teams including data engineers, solution architects, AI specialists, analysts, and business stakeholders.
- Manage client relationships and executive communications, ensuring alignment on priorities, timelines, risks, budgets, and expected outcomes.
- Drive governance and operational excellence across data platform initiatives, including delivery standards, quality assurance, compliance, and change management.
- Oversee implementation of enterprise data platforms leveraging Microsoft Fabric, Azure data services, Power BI, data integration pipelines, and modern lakehouse architectures.
- Facilitate issue resolution, escalation management, and dependency tracking to ensure successful and timely delivery of program milestones.
- Support AI and advanced analytics initiatives by aligning business use cases with data readiness, platform capabilities, and operational adoption strategies.
- Monitor program performance through KPIs, dashboards, and executive reporting while identifying opportunities for continuous improvement.
- Enable collaboration between business and technical teams to ensure successful adoption of data governance, analytics, AI solutions, and self-service reporting capabilities.
- Contribute to business development activities including solution positioning, client workshops, proposal support, and strategic account growth.
Primary Skills Required
- Data & AI program and engagement management
- Microsoft Fabric architecture and platform expertise
- Enterprise data platform modernization
- Client and stakeholder management
- Executive communication and governance
- Cross-functional team leadership
- Agile delivery and transformation management
- Risk, dependency, and escalation management
Preferred Experience
- Experience leading enterprise Data & AI transformation programs.
- Strong understanding of Microsoft Fabric ecosystem and Azure data services.
- Knowledge of modern data architectures including lakehouse, data mesh, and cloud-native analytics platforms.
- Experience with Power BI, data governance, data integration, and enterprise reporting solutions.
- Familiarity with AI/ML enablement, generative AI use cases, and data readiness strategies.
- Proven ability to manage executive stakeholders and large cross-functional delivery teams.
- Strong communication, facilitation, and consulting skills.
Preferred Certifications
- Microsoft Certified: Fabric Analytics Engineer Associate
- Microsoft Certified: Azure Data Engineer Associate
- Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert
- PMP, Scrum Master, or equivalent delivery certifications
Success Measures
- Successful delivery of Data & AI transformation programs
- Strong client satisfaction and stakeholder engagement
- Adoption and optimization of Microsoft Fabric capabilities
- Delivery within scope, timeline, budget, and quality expectations
- Measurable business value from analytics and AI initiatives
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