Director,DataEngineering&AI

Are you ready to make an impact? West Monroe has an opportunity for a strategic Director, Data Engineering 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    Practice Development:  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