Principal Consultant – Data & AI Solutions

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Principal Consultant – Data & AI Solutions

Fractal is a strategic AI partner to Fortune 500 companies with a vision to power every human decision in the enterprise. Fractal is building a world where individual choices, freedom, and diversity are the greatest assets. An ecosystem where human imagination is at the heart of every decision. Where no possibility is written off, only challenged to get better. We believe that a true Fractalite is the one who empowers imagination with intelligence. Fractal has been featured as a Great Place to Work by The Economic Times in partnership with the Great Place to Work® Institute and recognized as a ‘Cool Vendor’ and a ‘Vendor to Watch’ by Gartner.
 

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Location: Dallas, TX

Note: This position is not eligible for Immigration Sponsorship at this time.

Role Overview: 

Within the Healthcare and Life Sciences practice at Fractal, we are seeking a Principal Consultant – Data & AI Solutions who has evolved from a strong technical architecture background into a client‑facing thought partner and relationship leader. This role will anchor strategic data modernization and AI programs for a large enterprise client, combining deep technical credibility with executive influence, delivery oversight, and account growth responsibilities.

The Principal Consultant will act as a trusted advisor to business and technology leaders—shaping multi‑year modernization journeys across data platforms, analytics, and AI—while ensuring delivery excellence through globally distributed teams. Experience in regulated environments such as Healthcare, Pharma, or Life Sciences is a strong advantage. 

Responsibilities 

Strategic Data Modernization & Architecture Advisory:

• Lead current‑state architecture assessments and define target‑state roadmaps for enterprise data, analytics, and AI platforms, including modernization of legacy data warehouses and fragmented AI tooling.

• Serve as the architectural conscience for large programs, ensuring decisions align to business priorities, scalability, security, compliance, and long‑term sustainability.

• Establish and evangelize enterprise architecture standards, patterns, and guardrails to enable repeatable delivery across regions and teams.

• Guide technology trade‑offs across time‑to‑value, cost, risk, and operating model, clearly articulating implications to senior stakeholders.

• Define and establish enterprise AI foundations to ensure AI and GenAI adoption is scalable, responsible, and embedded into core delivery workflows rather than treated as standalone experiments.

Client Thought Partnership & Relationship Leadership:

• Act as a trusted client thought partner, helping executives translate business strategy into actionable data and AI modernization initiatives.

• Partner with clients to drive an AI‑first approach to transformation programs enabled by AI, automation, document understanding, machine learning, conversational AI, and intelligent workflows.         

• Build deep knowledge of client businesses, priorities, and constraints, proactively shaping opportunities that deliver measurable impact.

• Anchor senior‑level client forums including QBRs, MBRs, roadmap reviews, and joint business planning (JBPs).

• Navigate complex, matrixed client organizations, managing senior stakeholder dynamics, dependencies, and escalations with maturity and confidence.

Deliver Transformation at Scale:

• Enable successful execution of strategic programs driving adoption of AI- and GenAI‑based solutions, including their application to modern software development and analytics workflows.

• Provide architectural oversight and strategic guidance rather than hands‑on execution, ensuring alignment to agreed target states and business outcomes.

• Collaborate with client stakeholders to identify high‑impact AI/ML opportunities, clarify problem statements, and lead structured discovery by assessing requirements, current processes, and adoption impediments at scale.

Account Growth & Business Development:

• Identify, shape, and drive follow‑on opportunities by connecting architectural decisions to broader transformation outcomes and business value.

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