Data & Artificial Intelligence Head/Lead

Position : Data & AI Head/Lead

Experience : 12-20 Years

Education : B.Tech

Location : Baner, Pune.

Work Mode : IN Office.

About Company :

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 :

- 12-15 relevant 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 platform's like Databricks or Snowflake is a plus