Data & AI - Manager

About the role

You will lead high-impact Data & AI engagements for clients across India or Japan, owning the full delivery lifecycle from initial scoping through solution implementation and executive sign-off. You will translate ambiguous business problems into concrete technical roadmaps, designing data pipelines, advanced analytics models, and AI applications that drive measurable value. A core part of your role involves mentoring junior consultants, elevating their technical capabilities, and ensuring consistent quality and delivery standards across your workstreams. You will act as a trusted advisor to CFOs and senior stakeholders, aligning technical recommendations with strategic business objectives and regulatory expectations. You will spearhead AI readiness assessments, responsible-AI governance, and the design of AI-enabled managed-service offerings tailored to your market. You will own client relationships, facilitating workshops, articulating complex concepts clearly, and presenting actionable recommendations to both technical and non-technical audiences. Finally, you will actively contribute to business growth by identifying new opportunities, developing compelling proposals, and supporting account expansion initiatives in your assigned market.

Key facts

What you'll do

Lead end-to-end delivery of Data & AI engagements including data engineering, advanced analytics, artificial intelligence, machine learning, dashboards, automation, and data-governance solutions within your assigned market.

Manage the design, development, and implementation of data pipelines, analytics solutions, predictive models, generative-AI applications, agentic workflows, and intelligent process-automation initiatives aligned with client objectives.

Conduct AI readiness assessments, identify high-value use cases, define implementation roadmaps, establish responsible-AI governance frameworks, and execute AI-enabled managed-services programs.

Partner closely with CFOs, CTOs, and senior stakeholders in finance, technology, data, risk, and operations to translate complex business challenges into scalable, technically sound solutions.

Own day-to-day client relationships, facilitate discovery sessions and working sessions, synthesize insights, communicate recommendations, and present technical solutions to executive and non-technical audiences with clarity and confidence.

Lead comprehensive engagement planning, detailed project execution, workstream coordination, rigorous quality assurance, and the delivery of client-ready artifacts and reports.

Embed robust model validation, explainability, auditability, privacy, security, and human-oversight controls into all AI and data solutions to ensure reliability and compliance.

Provide technical guidance, review deliverables, mentor junior team members, and support their professional growth through coaching and constructive feedback.

Identify, qualify, and pursue new client opportunities in your market, building a robust pipeline of potential engagements through proactive outreach and relationship-building.

Contribute to the development of proposals, solution design documents, executive presentations, account expansion plans, and pursuit materials in collaboration with Cfgi partners and teams.

Collaborate effectively with Cfgi's APAC and global Data & AI, Data & Analytics, controls, and managed-services practices to leverage shared resources and best practices.

Adapt and productize Cfgi's existing accelerators, platforms, and delivery methodologies to meet local-market requirements and client-specific needs in India or Japan.

Champion the adoption of data and AI practices that align with industry standards, client maturity, and evolving market demands.

Drive continuous improvement in delivery approaches, tooling, and frameworks to enhance efficiency, scalability, and impact for client programs.

Requirements

You must bring a minimum of 5 years of hands-on experience in data engineering, data science, advanced analytics, applied artificial intelligence, machine learning, analytics consulting, and/or technology consulting within a professional services context.

You must demonstrate strong hands-on experience delivering data or AI solutions end-to-end, showing deep expertise in at least one core discipline such as AI engineering, data-platform engineering, or advanced analytics and modeling.

You must have proven experience leading client-facing workstreams, managing project deliverables against timelines, communicating effectively with senior stakeholders, and mentoring junior professionals to ensure successful team outcomes.

You must be able to demonstrate prior experience designing and implementing generative-AI, predictive-AI, or agentic-AI solutions in production or enterprise environments with measurable business impact.

You must show a strong track record of developing data platforms and solutions using languages and technologies such as Python, SQL, Snowflake, Databricks, cloud data platforms, data orchestration tools, and modern lakehouse architectures.

You must have experience evaluating and selecting AI models based on criteria including capability, cost, latency, throughput, security, licensing, context-window, and data-residency requirements to ensure optimal fit for client needs.

You must have developed retrieval-augmented generation, tool-enabled AI, multi-agent workflows, semantic layers, knowledge graphs, or other enterprise knowledge architectures that enhance solution robustness.

You must have applied AI governance, model evaluation, observability, explainability, model-risk management, data-lineage, and auditability practices in real-world engagements to ensure transparency and compliance.

You must possess hands-on experience with at least one major cloud platform and its managed AI services, including Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services, or Google Cloud Platform, for deploying scalable solutions.

You must have led business-intelligence, workflow-automation, or analytics solution implementations using platforms such as Power BI, Tableau, Alteryx, UiPath, or Microsoft Power Platform in client environments.

You must have a proven ability to originate or co-origin client opportunities, shape business cases and scopes, develop high-quality proposals, and present solutions persuasively to executive decision-makers.

You must have experience growing existing client accounts or converting delivery relationships into follow-on engagements, demonstrating commercial acumen and relationship depth.

You must have established relationships with senior client stakeholders, alliance partners, or technology vendors, particularly within the India or Japan markets, to drive collaboration and opportunity realization.

You must have delivered data or AI solutions in regulated, audit-focused, risk-sensitive environments, where compliance, documentation, and control frameworks are critical to success.

Nice to have

Only candidates with demonstrated experience in the specified advanced technologies and governance practices will be considered for this role.

Practical notes

This role is based in Singapore but is aligned to either the India or Japan market, requiring potential travel within the assigned region as part of client engagement duties.

Candidates must be available for full-time commitment and meet all local regulatory or visa requirements for the assigned market.

The position may require participation in client meetings outside standard working hours to align with regional time zones and critical project milestones.