Principal Consultant - Gen AI
MAP Talent is seeking a highly qualified Principal Consultant – Data & Generative AI to join a premier global consulting firm working at the front of AI transformation. This role operates broadly across Financial Services, Consumer & Industrial Services, and digital transformation.
As a Principal, you will provide day-to-day leadership on complex client engagements, manage key commercial relationships alongside Partners, and act as a trusted C-suite advisor. You will lead cutting-edge machine learning and Generative AI initiatives while driving business growth and building high-performing teams.
Key Responsibilities - Technical Leadership & Delivery: Lead the development, deployment, and continuous improvement of complex ML models and advanced analytics to address strategic business challenges.
- Gen AI & Advanced Analytics: Design and implement effective Generative AI use cases, leveraging cutting-edge methodologies. Provide expert guidance on diverse ML methodologies (e.g., Gradient Boosting Machines, Random Forests, Regularised regressions).
- Data Transformation: Oversee the management of large, complex datasets to extract actionable insights. Drive large-scale data migration or transformation programs to ensure integrity, scalability, and performance.
- Client & Stakeholder Management: Serve as a trusted advisor to senior executive clients, translating technical AI insights into practical, high-impact strategic actions.
- Business & Practice Growth: Identify and expand commercial opportunities alongside Partners, contribute to thought leadership and intellectual capital, and build a strong personal brand in the industry.
- Team Development: Mentor, manage, and develop junior data scientists and analytics professionals within cross-functional teams.
Qualifications & Experience - Education: Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Data Science, Computer Science, Statistics, Engineering, or a related quantitative field.
- Experience: 8–10+ years of professional experience, ideally within a top-tier consulting firm or dynamic, project-based team environments. Deep industry domain expertise in Financial Services or Consumer & Industrial Services is highly preferred.
- Machine Learning & AI: Proven track record leading complex AI & Data programs. Vast experience managing teams of highly technical engineers and a having strong understanding of Generative AI applications is highly desirable.
- Data Programs: Extensive experience handling massive datasets and a proven record in leading complex data migrations or architecture transformations.
- Leadership & Influence: Strong problem-solving, stakeholder management, and consensus-building skills with senior executive audiences.
- Mobility: Willingness to travel as needed for client engagements.