Role Overview

We are looking for a Director of AI/ML to join our Machine Learning & AI practice team. In this role, you will build and lead phData’s India-based Agentic Delivery Center from the ground up, transforming bespoke client needs into scalable AI/ML platforms, agentic solutions, and accelerators. You will collaborate closely with global leadership, founding engineers, and cross-functional delivery teams to define architectural standards, scale a high-performing engineering organization, and ensure delivery excellence for our most strategic customers. You will serve as both a hands-on principal architect and senior consulting leader, aligning technical execution to clear business value and outcomes.

Key Responsibilities

Client Delivery

• Own and drive the design and delivery of production-grade agentic AI/ML solutions and platforms for global enterprise clients.
• Translate complex business requirements into opinionated, prescriptive architectures and implementation plans that leverage modern agentic stacks, LLMs, and cloud-native AI/ML platforms.
• Lead Zero-to-One delivery for the India Agentic Delivery Center, taking engagements from initial discovery through to production-ready agents and closed-loop intelligence workflows.
• Ensure engagements are delivered on time, within scope, and with measurable business value for clients, including under fixed-price and outcome-based commercial models.
• Communicate the business value, ROI, and risks of agentic solutions to both technical and non-technical stakeholders, including executive and C-level audiences.

Collaboration & Leadership

• Collaborate with cross-functional partners including global leadership, forward-deployed US-based engineers, data engineering, analytics, partner, and marketing teams to deliver successful client engagements.
• Partner with the Global Leadership team to prioritize agentic solutions and accelerators based on market demand, key technology stacks (e.g., Snowflake, AWS), and phData’s strategic roadmap.
• Provide technical and strategic leadership during client workshops, discovery sessions, architecture reviews, and delivery governance forums.
• Serve as the primary point of escalation for India-based delivery, resolving technical issues, client misalignments, and performance concerns with urgency and ownership.
• Ensure high quality in deliverables through engineering best practices, including robust SDLC processes, code reviews, documentation, testing, and production-readiness standards.

Practice & Firm Contribution

• Architect and stand up the foundational India Agentic Delivery Center, designing delivery models, operating mechanisms, and integrations with the broader consulting organization.
• Recruit, onboard, and develop an elite team of architects and engineers, setting a high technical bar and ensuring consistent performance management and calibration.
• Drive the development of reusable accelerators, modular agentic codebases, and solution templates that can be applied across clients and industries.
• Contribute to internal initiatives such as IP development, capability management, partner engagement, and thought leadership aligned to AI/ML and agentic architectures.
• Represent phData with professionalism in all interactions, communicating clearly with both technical and non-technical stakeholders and acting as the face of the India agentic team with clients.

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