Sr Consultant IT Strategy Consulting AI

Role Overview

Gartner Consulting is seeking a Senior Consultant with strong fluency in artificial intelligence to serve as a core delivery leader on high-impact client engagements. Sitting between Consultant and Engagement Manager levels this role blends hands-on analytical work with emerging workstream leadershipowning discrete pieces of an engagement guiding junior consultants and translating Gartners research and methodologies into practical decision-ready client outcomes. The Senior Consultant is a rising trusted advisor who can hold their own in front of senior client stakeholders while driving the day-to-day delivery that makes engagements successful. The ideal candidate for this role has hands-on experience developing and deploying AI solutions in a consulting context.

Key Responsibilities

Engagement Delivery

• Own one or more workstreams within a broader engagementmanaging scope timeline analysis and quality with limited oversight.
• Conduct primary and secondary research: client interviews workshops data collection benchmarking and synthesis into clear insights.
• Build the core analytical and storyline artifacts: maturity assessments current-state diagnostics agentic process reinvention use-case prioritization matrices roadmaps and business cases.
• Distinguish signal from noise in a fast-moving AI landscape ensuring recommendations are tangible specific and grounded in client context.

AI Domain Contribution

• Apply working fluency across the modern AI stack and its place in an enterprise environment: understanding function-specific enterprise use cases for AI and the implications to enable them across the organization (business requirements IT implications governance/operational)
• Technical knowledge of one or more AI-enabled platforms (e.g. Copilot Studio)
• Support AI strategy operating-model design data-readiness and responsible-AI governance workstreams with credible technical depth.
• Connect AI solution choices to business value cost risk and change-management considerations.
• Contribute to reusable accelerators and IP (e.g. AI Clinic/Lab tools frameworks templates) for the AI Center of Excellence.

Technical Delivery

• Build and configure generative AI solutions and/or agents using one or more core AI platforms (e.g. Amazon Bedrock Copilot Studio Azure AI Foundry Google Vertex AI OpenAI Enterprise Claude for Enterprise) including prompt design workflow orchestration knowledge grounding testing and deployment support.
• Translate business and functional requirements into working AI-enabled prototypes solution components and implementation-ready recommendations that can be evaluated with client stakeholders and technical teams.

Client Interaction

• Serve as a day-to-day client contact for assigned workstreams building credibility with mid- to senior-level stakeholders.
• Facilitate workshops and working sessions capturing outcomes and translating them into next steps.
• Communicate findings crisply through executive-quality decks models and written summaries.

Team & Capability Support

• Guide and coach junior consultants and analysts reviewing work products and modeling delivery standards.
• Contribute to proposals scoping and thought leadership as a subject-matter contributor.
• Help scale the AI Center of Excellence through case studies offerings and repeatable methods.

Required Qualifications

• 47 years of experience in management consulting technology strategy data/analytics or enterprise transformation with meaningful recent exposure to AI/data.
• Strong structured-thinking and problem-solving skills with the ability to own analysis independently.
• Solid technical literacyable to engage credibly with technical teams while communicating clearly to business audiences.
• Hands-on experience building generative AI solutions and/or agents using one or more core AI platforms (e.g. Amazon Bedrock Copilot Studio Azure AI Foundry Google Vertex AI OpenAI Enterprise Claude for Enterprise).
• Excellent storytelling analytical modeling (Excel/Power BI) and written/verbal communication skills. Ability to develop bespoke interactive dashboards/tools is a plus.
• Bachelors degree required; advanced degree a plus.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience delivering AI strategy data strategy or AI/ML implementation workstreams.
• Exposure to agentic AI LLMOps or enterprise data platforms (e.g. Microsoft Fabric Databricks Snowflake etc. ) is a plus.
• Familiarity with Gartner research frameworks and methodologies.
• Experience across multiple industries (financial services high-tech professional services public sector).

Who are we

At Gartner Inc. (NYSE:IT) we guide the leaders who shape the world.

Our mission relies on expert analysis and bold ideas to deliver actionable objective business and technology insights helping enterprise leaders and their teams succeed with their mission-critical priorities.

Since our founding in 1979 weve grown to 20000 associates globally who support over 13000 client enterprises in 90 countries and territories. We do important interesting and substantive work that matters. Thats why we hire associates with the intellectual curiosity energy and drive to want to make a difference. The bar is unapologetically high. So is the impact you can have here.

What makes Gartner a great place to work

Our vast virtually untapped market potential offers limitless opportunities opportunities that may not even exist right now for you to grow professionally and flourish personally. How far you go is driven by your passion and performance.

We hire remarkable people who collaborate and win as a team. Together our singular unifying goal is to deliver results for our clients.

Our teams are inclusive and composed of individuals from different geographies cultures religions ethnicities races genders sexual orientations abilities and generations.

We invest in great leaders who bring out the best in you and the company enabling us to multiply our impact and results. This is why year after year we are recognized worldwide as a great place to work.

Gartner is the world authority on AI

At Gartner youll join a company at the very center of the AI revolution. Gartner has proactive objective guidance throughout clients AI journeys. We set the standard for how organizations leverage artificial intelligence to drive meaningful impact. Youll have access to unmatched resources expertise and technology and play a key role in helping Gartner and our clients innovate and grow as we leverage AI to transform business and technology landscapes.

Its an exciting time to be at Gartner with limitless opportunities to make a real impact grow your skills and build a lasting meaningful career in a field thats reshaping the way we operate. If youre passionate about AI and want to be part of a team thats guiding the leaders who shape the world Gartner is the place for you.

What do we offer

Gartner offers world-class benefits highly competitive compensation and disproportionate rewards for top performers.

In our hybrid work environment we provide the flexibility and support for you to thrive working virtually when its productive to do so and getting together with colleagues in a vibrant community that is purposeful engaging and inspiring.

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