[Hiring] Sr. AI Consultant @OrangePeople

Role Description

We are seeking a highly motivated and experienced AI Consultant with a proven background in AI adoption to join our AI Center of Excellence (AI COE). This position is ideal for a senior, hands-on candidate who advises customers on how to apply AI to their business, turns that advice into working results, and reports to the AI COE Lead. The role supports TTS business domains, primarily in an advisory capacity, across Security, Manufacturing, Infrastructure, and Connected Services.

Description / Essential Functions:

• AI Advisory:
  • Advise customers and domain teams on AI adoption, from identifying and prioritizing use cases to defining roadmaps, governance, and success measures.
  • Analyze customer business processes end to end, identify where AI and automation deliver measurable value, and build the business case (ROI, cost/benefit).
  • Lead workshops and executive briefings, and present recommendations to senior customer stakeholders.
  • Advise on responsible and secure AI adoption, including data protection, access control and AI-specific risks such as prompt injection and data leakage.
• Domain Support:
  • Security: Prioritize AI adoption for patch management and system hardening, while also advancing AI-assisted security operations.
  • Manufacturing: Shape AI use cases around factory production processes and IoT/OT data.
  • Infrastructure: Support AI use cases in infrastructure build and operations as demand arises.
  • Connected Services: Support AI use cases in connected services as demand arises.
• Hands-on POC and Product Evaluation:
  • Plan, build, and run POCs, including scope, success criteria, test scenarios and evaluation reports.
  • Lead hands-on evaluations of AI and automation products and platforms, and deliver objective fit/gap findings and go/no-go recommendations.
  • Design solution architectures for AI, GenAI and AI Agent solutions on Microsoft Azure or AWS.
• Knowledge Assets and Partners:
  • Capture reusable assets such as use cases, reference architectures, evaluation reports and demo/POC materials for horizontal deployment across domains and customers.
  • Coordinate with external partners on joint demos, POCs and validations.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 8+ years of experience in IT consulting, solution architecture or related technical roles.
• At least 3 years of hands-on experience delivering AI, GenAI, or intelligent automation solutions.
• Proven experience advising customers on AI adoption.
• Strong hands-on technical skills in GenAI and AI Agent technologies.
• Proven track record of running POCs and product evaluations hands-on.
• Experience applying technology or AI in at least one of TTS's focus domains.
• Business-analyst capability: experience mapping end-to-end business processes.
• Excellent communication, facilitation, and presentation skills.

Requirements

• Security domain experience, such as SOC operations, incident response, and security automation platforms.
• Manufacturing domain experience, such as factory production processes and IoT/OT data.
• Experience in infrastructure build and operations.
• Experience with connected services.
• Experience with AI Agent frameworks and protocols.
• Experience applying AI across the software development lifecycle (SDLC).
• Relevant certifications, such as Microsoft Azure AI Engineer or AWS Certified Machine Learning Engineer.
• Experience working with Japanese companies or in a global, bilingual environment.

Benefits

• 401(k).
• Dental Insurance.
• Health insurance.
• Vision insurance.