Senior Manager / Director, Data Analytics Consulting – Data Science / AI / ML (Energy / Oil & Gas)

Description

Are you an avid technologist who enjoys solving and driving complex Data & Analytics challenges? Are you hungry to thrive in a fast-paced entrepreneurial engineering environment and take ownership for critical technical and business decisions that directly impact EPAM and our clients?

As one of the worlds leading digital transformation service providers, we are expanding our Data teams in the Middle East to meet increasing client demand for our services. We are open to hiring someone at Senior Manager or Director level within the Data Science Consulting & Data Analytics Practice with a focus on Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) solutions in the Energy / Oil & Gas sector.

The roles offer exciting opportunities to work with leading-edge data technologies, and play a highly visible role across the data practice, whilst partnering very closely with clients in an effort to help drive the local Middle East market growth.

We offer a hybrid work environment - working in the EPAM office, on client site and from home depending on the projects you will be aligned to.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership and strategic direction expertise in Data Science / AI / ML, driving the design, development and implementation of solutions for clients in the Oil & Gas / Energy sector
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define project scope, develop data models and apply appropriate ML algorithms to deliver high-quality solutions
• Lead the identification of new AI / ML opportunities, either through selling solutions or securing funding, by leveraging your technical expertise and engaging senior decision-makers
• Shape data solutions and properly scope, price engagements, establishing optimal operating models and project team organisation and leading the transition from the sales process to the delivery phase
• Focus on practical AI application frameworks, including Data, MLOps, and LLMOps as well as actively participate in the development of Generative AI, Responsible AI, ESG, AI Security, offerings ensuring their alignment with business objectives and technical requirements
• Foster and maintain strong relationships with clients, ensuring their satisfaction through effective project delivery, clear communication and timely issue resolution
• Engage client executives up to C-level, helping them drive enterprise-wide agenda to maximize growth
• Provide guidance and mentorship to junior team members, fostering their professional growth and development in Data Science / AI / ML
• Stay updated with the latest advancements in AI / ML and emerging technologies, proactively recommending new approaches and methodologies to address challenges in the space / markets and geographies in which the clients operate
• Support pre-sales activities by assessing Data opportunities, responding to RFPs, creating proposals and presentations

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