Director Consulting Services - Data and Analytics

Position Description:

Ready to join an outstanding culture that cares about diversity and inclusion corporate social responsibility and gives the freedom to innovate influence decisions and chart an exciting career
CGI is more than just an IT consulting company; be part of a team that supports the local community with the ability to draw on global bestinclass talent. Our people are CGI Partners reflecting our mutual commitment to the success of all stakeholders. Benefits include a share purchase program profit sharing wellness credits training and development programs and flexible work schedules and locations.

CGI is looking for a Director Consulting Services in AI Data & Analytics to help build an already growing team in Edmonton Alberta guiding our customers on their AI & analytics journey.

In this role the Director Consulting Services will lead technical implementations including technical design cloud & data programs and other initiatives. They will be handson crafting AI data & analytics patterns with a strong focus on enabling analytics and machine learning ops DataOps and DevOps as well as modernizing and migrating workloads. They will also support clients in earlystage architecture and visioning sessions to support crafting strategies and roadmaps.

Your future duties and responsibilities:

We help our clients with numerous types of projects covering a variety of different business scenarios including supporting data for machine learning analytics business intelligence data governance. A tested critical thinker the Director Consulting Services will communicate and deliver modern analytic solutions to solve different business problems while building a team of experts to grow the Edmonton market by:

Providing technical direction to team members and leading client engagements to develop test and implement solutions as per the design and within the specified timelines
Working across a myriad of technology stacks in Azure AWS and GCP
Growing the sales funnel by proactively identifying and developing opportunities and new business addressing client needs based on our expertise and knowledge of market trends
Defining cuttingedge AI/MLdriven practices and AI lifecycle to ensure optimal performance and efficiency
Delivering against the strategic roadmap for AI and Analytics architectures
Managing the development of winning proposals and presentations to create business solutions based on client business requirements
Measuring and managing client satisfaction
Ensuring best practices and patterns are being implemented for Ai & analytic solutions
Coordinating with teams and other stakeholders to build monitor and maintain a highperformance cloud infrastructure via automation in both production and nonproduction environments
Supporting client development opportunities and workshops

Team and CGI Partner Management:

The Director Consulting Services will play a key role on the leadership team building the advisory practice assets and providing thought leadership. Leading a team of up to 15 CGI partners key management responsibilities include:

Fostering the development of the teams capabilities and expertise in line with client needs and market evolution
Proactively managing CGI Partner assignments on delivery engagements and for new opportunities
Planning resource requirements and recruitment needs and take responsibility to onboard new CGI Partners
Taking financial ownership leveraging your ability to manage project financials
Providing collaborative leadership to build out the AI function MLEs MLOps and Data Engineering
Coaching and mentoring our team as we build scalable data and machine learning solutions fostering a culture of innovation and excellence
Building and deploying endtoend ML models and leverage metrics to support predictions recommendations search and growth strategies
Informing and delivering on ambitious product roadmaps to accelerate growth anticipating client needs and market trends
Proactively analyzing data to increase quality as it relates to accuracy completeness consistency integrity timeliness conformity and validity
Attracting and retaining internal talent by supporting the career development of team members

Required qualifications to be successful in this role:

Bachelors degree in Computer Science or equivalent; Masters degree is an asset
15 years Data & Analytics experience across multiple industries
Experience in a leadership role where you have demonstrated success in building and maintaining teams with a keen eye for talent and collaboration
Uptodate knowledge of AI/ML technologies and their trends including various libraries and tools
Extensive handson experience with enterprisescale IoT analytic initiatives
Extensive handson Azure design and architecture experience including key Azure platform and infrastructure services
Strong experience with IaaS platform capabilities and services (Professional cloud certifications preferred)
Experience working within an automated CI/CD pipeline for release development testing remediation and deployment
Experience building feature stores and leveraging auto ML capabilities
Effective documentation skills including technical diagrams and written descriptions
Ability to balance environmental requirements with mission need

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Skills:

• Client Management
• Leadership
• Management Consulting

What you can expect from us:

Together as owners lets turn meaningful insights into action.

Life at CGI is rooted in ownership teamwork respect and belonging. Here youll reach your full potential because

You are invited to be an owner from day 1 as we work together to bring our Dream to life. Thats why we call ourselves CGI Partners rather than employees. We benefit from our collective success and actively shape our companys strategy and direction.

Your work creates value. Youll develop innovative solutions and build relationships with teammates and clients while accessing global capabilities to scale your ideas embrace new opportunities and benefit from expansive industry and technology expertise.

Youll shape your career by joining a company built to grow and last. Youll be supported by leaders who care about your health and wellbeing and provide you with opportunities to deepen your skills and broaden your horizons.

At CGI we recognize the richness that diversity brings. We strive to create a work culture where all belong and collaborate with clients in building more inclusive communities. As an equalopportunity employer we want to empower all our members to succeed and grow. If you require an accommodation at any point during the recruitment process please let us know. We will be happy to assist.

Come join our teamone of the largest IT and business consulting services firms in the world.