Senior Data & AI Project Lead

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Alexander Thamm GmbH

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In this role, you will lead complex data and AI projects, coordinate interdisciplinary teams, design governance structures, and translate business requirements into actionable solutions for clients.

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Your role in the team

  • Data and AI are your home turf? Your new challenge also includes the following:
  • Project management for long-term client engagements involving multiple concurrent projects and teams
  • Managing our consultants, who are assigned to various teams at the client’s site
  • Resource and capacity planning in collaboration with internal team leads, early coordination of availability, and planned handovers with overlap
  • Commercial responsibility for service records, invoicing, call-offs, quotations, and follow-up orders
  • Preparation and facilitation of regular steering meetings: You prepare the results for the business unit and management.
  • Contribute to Agentic AI initiatives on the client side, focusing on conceptual work: evaluating and prioritizing use cases, business cases, target process models, operating models, and similar areas.
  • Designing governance for AI-powered processes, such as human-in-the-loop workflows, responsibilities, evaluation criteria, and regulatory requirements such as the AI Act
  • Bridge between the business department and the development team: You translate business requirements into actionable tasks and present the results to the customer.
  • Supporting business units in implementing AI-powered processes and managing change
  • Identify customer needs early and help shape proposals and tender responses

Our expectations of you

Education

  • You have completed a degree in business administration, business informatics, computer science, or a comparable qualification.

Qualifications

  • Is data in your DNA too? Here’s what you should bring to the table:
  • You have a solid understanding of GenAI and Agentic AI, including their use cases, limitations, evaluation, and safeguards, and can discuss technical concepts as an equal with development teams without needing to code yourself.
  • You have excellent knowledge of data governance and modern data architectures (e.g., Data Mesh, Data Lake, Lakehouse), as well as knowledge of the EU AI Act.
  • You impress with a confident presence in steering committees and communicate effectively with business units, customers, and management.
  • You have strong organizational skills, manage multiple parallel workstreams, and proactively coordinate distributed teams in a structured manner.
  • You have excellent communication skills and professional stakeholder management capabilities, and you build long-term customer relationships in which you act as a reliable point of contact.
  • You have very good knowledge of PowerPoint, Jira, and Confluence.
  • You are fluent in German and English and are willing to travel as part of your consulting work.

Experience

  • You have at least 4 years of professional experience in data strategy, Data & AI consulting, or a comparable field, including at least 2 years leading projects with responsibility for teams and budgets.
  • You have experience in commercial project management, particularly in preparing quotations, managing call-offs, invoicing, and forecasting.
  • Ideally, you have experience in the financial services sector (banking or insurance), knowledge of data and AI platforms (e.g. Databricks, Azure), and experience with tenders and framework agreements for large companies.

What we offer

  • Data moves us! Find out what awaits you on your personal journey here:
  • Trust-based working hours with flexible scheduling, hybrid working model, workation – take the opportunity to work from another EU country
  • A unique team atmosphere, flat hierarchies with our CEO Alex, and an open feedback culture; annual team workshops at our Data.Castle in the Zillertal; a lived Data.Musketeer principle — “one for all, all for one!”; our [at] Buddy Program for better networking; regular professional and social events; dog-friendly offices
  • Comprehensive onboarding and induction process, personal development plan and individual training opportunities, a diverse range of workshops and training courses through our Data.Academy, delivered by our experienced Data.Musketeers and external providers, career paths in leadership, project management and specialist roles
  • Childcare allowance, company pension scheme with a 20% employer contribution, a wide range of corporate benefits and employee perks (e.g. for events and travel), a welcome credit for our internal merchandise shop, competitive salary with variable components
  • Mental health and wellbeing support, as well as coaching and meditation through nilo.health; fitness and yoga rooms at the Munich office; regular employee surveys; EGYM Well Pass membership with a Plus1 option; bike leasing through JobRad after the probationary period; internal groups for sports activities; free hot and cold drinks and fresh fruit at the office; rooftop terrace (barbecue)
  • Subsidy for the Deutschlandticket, centrally located offices, excellent public transport connections, option to work from other locations

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Job locations

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  • Location Munich
    Bayern, Germany
  • Location Nuremberg
    Bayern, Germany
  • Location Frankfurt
    Hessen, Germany
  • Location Leipzig
    Sachsen, Germany
  • Location Essen
    Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany
  • Location Berlin
    Germany

About your employer

We're the pioneering data science consulting firm in the German speaking region. Our Munich-based company, founded by Alexander Thamm in 2012, was the first to exclusively specialize in analytics, data science and big data. We help our clients gain a competitive edge and added value through big data.

Founding year
2012
Company type
Digital Agency
Work model
Onsite, Hybrid, Full Remote
Industry
Consulting · Internet, IT, Telecommunication

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Senior Data & AI Project Lead

Alexander Thamm GmbH