Director, Data Engineering & AI

About West Monroe West Monroe is a global business and technology consulting firm passionate about creating value for our clients. We co-create solutions that accelerate results now and prepare industries to tackle what’s next. We’re excited by the possibilities that technology creates. We work with our clients to deliver on the possible, building on their goals, generating fresh insights and creating inspiring outcomes. We excel at the intersection of industry, strategy, people and technology—always driving rapid impact. Our all-in approach comes from our unique employee ownership structure. Our clients’ success is our success. From the beginning, our growth has come from putting people at the center. Fortune and USA Today consistently celebrate West Monroe as a top workplace, and we’re recognized as a leading consultancy by Forbes and Forrester. Share our passion at westmonroe.com.

West Monroe

We’re a global business and technology consulting firm passionate about creating value with our clients.

Customer ExperienceMergers & AcquisitionsPrivate EquityHealthcare & Life SciencesEnergy & UtilitiesManufacturing & DistributionCybersecurityFinancial ServicesCorporate TransformationHigh-Tech & Software

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westmonroe.com

1,001-5,000 employees

Business Consulting and Services

Chicago, Illinois

2002

Privately Held

95k LinkedIn followers

• West Monroe has an opportunity for a strategic Director, Data Engineering & AI
• to join our Technology practice. This leader will structure, lead, support,
• drive, and grow West Monroe’s Technology Data Engineering practice and
• associated offerings in collaboration with other leaders across the company.
• collaborate on pursuits for new work and build deep relationships
• Shape client engagements focused on AI-enabled data modernization, including
• data platform transformation, data quality, governance, and AI infrastructure
• readiness
• Collaborate with industry and multidisciplinary teams to identify sales
• opportunities
• Initiate and lead business development meetings with prospective clients
• Understand client needs and requirements and help turn those goals into
• concrete engagements and detailed proposals that highlight quantifiable value
• creation
• Create work plans, pricing estimates, and risk assessments for prospects
• Attend networking events and actively build and leverage a professional
• network and affiliate network in the local community
• Lead teams serving clients across industries while demonstrating executive
• presence with high level client counterparts.
• Manage and influence multi-disciplinary teams to translate client business
• objectives into data and analytics solutions; collaborate with data
• engineering, industry, and product teams to deliver impactful results for our
• clients
• Provide quality assurance and conduct frequent touch bases with client
• executives to ensure value is realized and understood from our engagements
• Architect enterprise data solutions that support AI use cases through
• high-quality, governed, discoverable, and interoperable data pipelines
• Guide clients in implementing data engineering best practices for AI
• applications, including feature engineering, vectorized data architectures,
• metadata management, and real-time data processing
• Understand and support the underlying business processes and technologies
• being used within an organization to be able to make recommendations on how
• to achieve long-term scalability, reduce operational cost, or better support
• business processes
• Ensure proper management of project economics including: project budgets,
• invoicing, and the collection process
• Collaborate with national and local leadership within Data Engineering &
• Analytics practice and across West Monroe industry and functional practices,
• to develop and deliver multi-disciplinary, data-driven offerings
• Develop and expand West Monroe’s capabilities around AI-enabled data
• engineering, intelligent data platforms, and cloud-native AI architectures
• Build accelerators, frameworks, and reusable assets that support AI data
• readiness, unstructured data processing, semantic layers, and vector database
• integration
• Drive internal innovation around emerging AI engineering patterns including
• retrieval augmented generation (RAG), agentic workflows, streaming data
• architectures, and AI orchestration frameworks
• Mentor teams on modern AI data engineering concepts including scalable
• pipeline design, data products, feature stores, and AI platform
• operationalization
• Stay current on evolving technologies across AI infrastructure, data
• engineering, cloud ecosystems, and intelligent data applications

• 10+ years participating in team-based, client-facing business and technology
• consulting services
• Requisite depth in one or more key data platform technologies – Databricks,
• Entrepreneurial spirit and willingness to innovate on new and emerging
• solutions
• Experience designing and delivering modern data platforms that support AI,
• machine learning, and Generative AI use cases at enterprise scale
• Strong understanding of AI-oriented data architecture concepts including
• real-time data pipelines, feature engineering, vector databases, semantic
• search, and unstructured data processing
• Experience implementing scalable data engineering solutions within
• Databricks, Snowflake, AWS, Azure, and/or GCP environments to support AI and
• analytics workloads
• Familiarity with MLOps, LLMOps, data observability, and governance frameworks
• required for enterprise AI deployment and operationalization
• Demonstrated success within one or more of West Monroe’s core industries
• including Healthcare (payer/provider, life sciences), Utilities, Insurance,
• Banking, and/or Private Equity
• Ability to Travel, as required based on client and practice demands (30 to
• 50%)
• Hybrid role, expectation to go into your local West Monroe office 1 to 2 days
• a week
• Based on pay transparency guidelines, a reasonable expectation for the salary
• range for this role is listed below. Information on our competitive total
• rewards package, including our bonus structure and benefits is here
• Employees (and their families) are covered by medical, dental, vision, and basic
• life insurance. Employees are able to enroll in our company’s 401k plan,
• purchase shares from our employee stock ownership program and be eligible to
• receive annual bonuses. Employees will also receive unlimited flexible time off
• and ten paid holidays throughout the calendar year. Eligibility for ten weeks of
• paid parental leave will also be available upon hire date.
• National
• $200,000—$275,000 USD
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• AT WEST MONROE, WE WORK WITH YOU.
• We’re a global business and technology consulting firm passionate about creating
• measurable value for our clients, delivering real-world solutions.
• The combination of business and technology is not new, but how we bring them
• together is unique. We’re fluent in both. We know that technology alone is not
• the answer, but how we apply it is. We rely on data to constantly adapt and
• solve new challenges. Actions that work today with outcomes that generate value
• for years to come.
• At West Monroe, we zero in on the heart of the opportunity, getting to results
• faster and preparing people for what’s next.
• You’ll feel the difference in how we work. We show up personally. We’re right
• there in the room with you, co-creating through the challenges. With West
• Monroe, collaboration isn’t a lofty promise, but a daily action. We work
• together with you to turn vision into clear action with lasting impact.
• We believe in treating each employee and applicant for employment fairly and
• with dignity. We base our employment decisions on merit, experience, and
• To learn more about diversity, equity and inclusion at West Monroe,
• visit www.westmonroe.com/inclusion [http://www.westmonroe.com/inclusion]. If you
• [recruiting@westmonroe.com].
• Please review our company disclosures regarding use of artificial intelligence
• during the hiring process
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• can capture notes more accurately, stay focused on the conversation, and
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• Medical Insurance
• Dental Insurance
• Vision Insurance
• Basic Life Insurance
• 401k Plan
• Employee Stock Ownership Program
• Annual Bonuses
• Unlimited Flexible Time Off
• Paid Holidays
• Paid Parental Leave