Principal Data & AI Consultant
United States
Full-Time
Senior (7+ yrs)
Engineering & Development
Posted on September 17, 2026
- Serve as a senior trusted advisor to CIO, CTO, CDO, CRO, business, product, and technology stakeholders.
- Lead Data & AI discovery and translate ambiguous business problems into measurable, production-ready solutions.
- Design end-to-end architectures spanning data platforms, analytics, machine learning, GenAI, applications, APIs, governance, and integrations.
- Lead and challenge advanced forecasting and predictive-modeling approaches, including regression, sparse and zero-inflated data, feature design, model selection, tuning, and validation.
- Define appropriate business and model success measures, including R², WAPE, MAPE, statistical significance, and business-impact KPIs.
- Ensure point-in-time correctness, prevent data leakage, and maintain rigorous model-development and validation practices.
- Provide hands-on technical leadership using Python, SQL, Snowflake, notebooks, Git, and modern Data/AI platforms.
- Shape AI use cases across forecasting, sponsorship sales, lead scoring, next-best-action, revenue intelligence, personalization, subscription growth, and commercial optimization.
- Evaluate when classical analytics/ML, GenAI, or agentic AI is the appropriate solution.
- Lead architecture and solution-design workshops and present recommendations to senior and executive audiences.
- Support proposals, SOWs, RFI/RFP responses, estimates, staffing models, and technical solution shaping.
- Lead and mentor multidisciplinary teams across Data Science, Data Engineering, AI Engineering, Software Engineering, and Architecture.
- Actively participate in client stand-ups, backlog refinement, executive readouts, and strategic planning.
- Teach and transfer knowledge to client teams; documentation, reproducibility, and handover are expected parts of delivery.
- Challenge client requests when the proposed approach does not solve the underlying business problem.
Company: Endava
Provides next-generation technology services specializing in digital transformation, offering tailor-made solutions that integrate innovative technologies and deep industry expertise.
10001+ employees
Software & IT Services
HQ: United Kingdom
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