Data and AI Practise Lead

Pratiti is looking for a leader for our Data & AI Practice to drive innovation and deliver advanced data engineering, analytics and AI/ML solutions for our global clients. Role needs a blend of hands-on expertise, solution consulting and team leadership to build Data & AI capabilities as key part of digital solutions.

Key Responsibilities:

· Work with presales and business development team during discovery phase, contribute to proposals and RFP responses.

· Consultative approach to advice clients on AI journey including data strategies, AI/LLM enabled use cases, data platform adoptions.

· Build and mentor team of data engineers, analysts, ML, ML-Ops engineers.

· Work with L&D team to build Data & AI competency and enable team to stay current on advancements in technology and business outlook.

· Architect solution leveraging modern data stack including data platforms (Databricks, Snowflake) and cloud services (Azure, GCP, AWS)

· Guide end-to-end solutions including data architecture, data pipeline, data governance, security, ML-Ops

Requirements

· 10-12 years of experience in data engineering, analytics, or AI/ML, with at least 3+ years in a leadership role.

· Hands-on experience with tools like Python, Spark, SQL, Airflow, Kafka, and cloud-native data services.

· Strong technical knowledge in building modern data platforms, pipelines, and machine learning solutions

· Deep understanding of AI/ML lifecycle, model management, and MLOps practices.

· Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.

· Expertise/certification in data platofrms like Databricks or Snowflake is a plus