Senior Data & AI Readiness Consultant

Benefits:

• Competitive salary

Location: Remote

Position Overview

We are seeking a senior-level Data & AI Readiness Consultant to lead stakeholder engagement, data discovery, governance assessment, and AI readiness evaluation efforts across the enterprise. This role is not focused on hands-on engineering or development but instead on assessing organizational readiness for AI adoption through business, technology, security, legal, compliance, and data governance collaboration.

The ideal candidate is an experienced consultant who can engage executives, facilitate workshops, document complex environments, identify risks and gaps, and translate findings into strategic recommendations and actionable roadmaps.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead stakeholder interviews with business leaders, application owners, data owners, security teams, legal teams, compliance teams, and technology stakeholders.
• Inventory enterprise systems, applications, data repositories, integrations, and platforms.
• Document:
  • System Ownership
  • Data Ownership
  • Data Classifications
  • Data Lineage
  • Data Flows
  • APIs & Integration Patterns
  • Third-Party Dependencies
  • Data Access Methods
• Assess organizational readiness for AI adoption.
• Evaluate current-state:
  • Data Governance
  • Data Quality
  • Data Accessibility
  • Security Controls
  • Privacy Controls
  • Operational Readiness
• Facilitate executive workshops to identify AI opportunities, risks, constraints, and priorities.
• Develop current-state and future-state assessments.
• Identify gaps in governance, data management, compliance, and AI enablement capabilities.
• Create executive-level presentations, reports, recommendations, and decision-support materials.
• Partner with business, technology, cyber, legal, and compliance teams.
• Develop prioritized roadmaps supporting enterprise AI initiatives.

Required Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in:
  • Data Strategy
  • Data Governance
  • Enterprise Architecture
  • Business Transformation
  • Management Consulting
• Experience leading stakeholder interviews and executive workshops.
• Strong understanding of:
  • Enterprise Data Management
  • Data Governance
  • Data Lineage
  • Data Quality
  • Data Access Controls
  • API Integrations
• Experience documenting complex enterprise environments.
• Ability to communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Strong executive presentation, facilitation, and communication skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• AI Readiness Assessments
• AI Governance Programs
• Data Governance Frameworks
• Metadata Management
• Data Catalog Solutions
• Microsoft Purview
• Data Classification Initiatives
• Cybersecurity & Privacy Programs
• Experience within:
  • Healthcare
  • Financial Services
  • Insurance
  • Government
  • Other Highly Regulated Industries

Core Skills

• Data Strategy
• AI Readiness Assessment
• Enterprise Data Management
• Data Governance
• Data Lineage
• Data Quality
• Data Classification
• Metadata Management
• Data Catalogs
• Microsoft Purview
• Business Process Analysis
• Stakeholder Management
• Executive Facilitation
• Workshop Leadership
• Enterprise Architecture
• Security & Privacy Governance
• API & Integration Analysis
• Risk Assessment
• Roadmap Development
• Executive Communications

This is a remote position.