Practice Manager AI & Data

Were ALTEN Technology USA an engineering company helping clients bring groundbreaking ideas to lifefrom advancing space exploration and life-saving medical devices to building autonomous electric vehicles. With 3000 experts across North America we partner with leading companies in aerospace medical devices robotics automotive commercial vehicles EVs rail and more.

As part of the global ALTEN Group57000 engineers in 30 countrieswe deliver across the entire product development cycle from consulting to full project outsourcing.

When you join ALTEN Technology USA youll collaborate on some of the worlds toughest engineering challenges supported by mentorship career growth opportunities and comprehensive benefits. We take pride in fostering a culture where employees feel valued supported and inspired to grow.

Responsibilities;

Practice Leadership & Management

• Lead and manage the AI & Data practice
• Manage and steer the allocation of practice resources across multiple activities including:
• Technical pre-sales support
• Technical expertise delivery to projects
• Recruitment support
• Training and competency development
• Provide line management and leadership to members of the practice including technical leadership across AI and Data
• Define skills development objectives for practice members and evaluate progress and effectiveness
• Develop improve and standardize processes methodologies and tools
• Foster a culture of collaboration innovation and knowledge sharing across the practice

Client Engagement & Pre-Sales

• Partner with Sales and Account teams toidentify and shape AI & Data opportunities
• Lead or contribute tosolutioning proposals and RFP responses
• Act as atrusted advisorin client discussions and executive forums
• Align AI & Data solutions withbusiness value and client outcomes

Technical Leadership & Innovation

• Provide leadership across advanced AI & Data domains:
• Generative AI & LLM ecosystems (prompt engineering RAG multi-agent systems)
• Data Engineering & Modern Data Platforms (ETL/ELT streaming data lakes data mesh)
• Cloud-based AI architectures (AWS Azure GCP AI services)

• Machine Learning & Deep Learning (supervised unsupervised reinforcement learning)
  • Support delivery teams with hands-on guidance and expert oversight
  • Drive development of AI & Data offerings accelerators and reusable assets
  • Identify opportunities for AI-driven productivity gains and automation
  • Ensure adoption of industry best practices and scalable architectures

Qualifications

• 12-15 years of experience in consulting engineering services or technology-driven organizations
• 5 years of experience inAI Data or Analytics leadership roles
• Proven experiencebuilding and scaling technical teams or practices
• Experience in:
  • Generative AI technologies (LLMs RAG pipelines prompt engineering API-based AI services)
  • AI/ML frameworks (e.g. Python ecosystem TensorFlow PyTorch Scikit-learn)
  • Data Engineering tools & platforms (Spark Databricks distributed systems)
  • Cloud AI ecosystems (Azure AI AWS SageMaker/Bedrock Google Vertex AI)
  • MLOps / LLMOps tools (MLflow Kubeflow containerization orchestration)
• Understanding of data governance security and AI regulations

Skills & Competency Management

• Create maintain and manage the practice skill matrix
• Identify competency gaps and develop capability-building plans
• Develop and coordinate technical training programs and certification initiatives
• Build and strengthen a team of experts through:
• Recruitment
• Coaching and mentoring
• Internal talent development and training
• Support career development planning and succession management within the practice
• Promote technical communities best practices and continuous learning initiatives

Educational Qualifications

• Bachelors degree (or higher) in Computer Science Data Science AI or related field
• Certifications in AI/ML Cloud are a plus

Salary Range: $160000-$190000 Annual Performance Bonus

The actual salary offered is dependent on various factors including but not limited to location the candidates combination of job-related knowledge qualifications skills education training and experience

Note: this position is on-site but can be located in Greensboro NC Broomfield CO or Troy MI.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment and will not be discriminated against on the basis of race color religion sex sexual orientation gender identity national origin disability protected veteran status age genetic information or pregnancy.

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Compliance Notice: Alten USA is a federal contractor subject to the requirements of the Vietnam Era Veterans Readjustment Assistance Act (VEVRAA) and Executive Order 11246. We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and consider all qualified applicants without regard to race color religion sex sexual orientation gender identity national origin disability or veteran status.

Drug Screening Requirement: As a federal contractor Alten USA maintains a drug-free workplace. All candidates selected for employment will be required to successfully complete a pre-employment drug screening as a condition of hire.