Principal Consultant - Artificial Intelligence (AI) (Remote - US)

Atmosera

5d • $170,000 - $190,000 • Remote

About The Position

Atmosera empowers businesses to redefine what's possible with modern technology and human expertise. Our exceptional experience across Applications, Data & AI, DevOps, Security, and the Microsoft Azure platform enables organizations to accelerate innovation, enhance security, and optimize operational agility. As a Microsoft Partner with seven specializations, GitHub AI Partner of the Year, a member of the GitHub Advisory Board, and a member of the prestigious Microsoft Intelligent Security Association (MISA), Atmosera expertly delivers cutting-edge, integrated solutions that deliver business value. We are seeking a Principal Consultant to join our Data & AI practice and lead engagements from client discovery and value identification through use case portfolio development, ROI prioritization, and end‑to‑end solution architecture. This role also owns the design and establishment of AI Centers of Excellence (CoEs) for clients, ensuring AI adoption is governed, scalable, and aligned to business outcomes. This is a client‑facing, consultative role that sits at the intersection of executive strategy, applied AI engineering, and enterprise architecture. The Principal Consultant - AI must be equally comfortable whiteboarding with engineers, stress‑testing ROI with business leaders, and advising C‑suite executives on AI operating models and risk.

Requirements

• 10+ years Consulting experience leading client discovery, workshops, and executive readouts.
• Proven experience as an AI Architect, AI Solution Architect, or equivalent role.
• Prior hands-on experience as an AI Engineer or ML Engineer building real AI solutions of moderate to advanced complexity.
• Strong architecture background across cloud, security, integration, and scalability.
• Excellent written and spoken English.

Nice To Haves

• Experience designing or operating AI Centers of Excellence.
• Multicloud experience across Azure, AWS, and GCP.
• Business management or business operations experience enabling strong understanding of client needs and constraints.
• Spanish business professional fluency.

Responsibilities

• Lead structured discovery sessions (in-person and virtual) with executive stakeholders and technical SMEs to assess current-state AI, data, cloud, and automation architecture, business processes, decision points, and operational pain areas, and organizational readiness, governance maturity, and risk posture for AI adoption.
• Translate ambiguous client inputs into clear, actionable findings that inform both business and technical decisions.
• Produce discovery outputs that support executive alignment and downstream architecture decisions.
• Identify, define, and document AI use cases across business functions, including business value hypothesis and success metrics, technical feasibility, data dependencies, and delivery complexity.
• Build a use case portfolio and put each use case through an ROI stress test, prioritizing measurable business impact, feasibility and risk, and time-to-value and scalability.
• Create and present a priority matrix (impact × complexity × risk) and a sequenced AI adoption roadmap for executive decision-making.
• Own the end-to-end architecture and design of complex AI, machine learning, and intelligent automation solutions, including generative and agentic AI architectures, predictive and supervised ML solutions, workflow automation and orchestration, and secure integration with enterprise systems and data sources.
• Define reference architectures, design patterns, and guardrails that ensure solutions are secure, scalable, governable, and production-ready.
• Collaborate closely with AI Engineers, Platform Engineers, Data, Security, and Delivery teams to ensure architectural intent translates into successful implementation.
• Design and help establish AI Centers of Excellence for clients, including AI intake and qualification models, architecture and development standards, governance, Responsible AI, and risk controls, and operating models for scaling AI across the organization.
• Help clients move from ad-hoc AI experimentation to repeatable, enterprise-grade AI delivery.
• Enable client teams with frameworks, artifacts, and guidance that allow the CoE to operate independently over time.
• Demonstrate deep familiarity with the Microsoft AI ecosystem, including Microsoft Foundry, other Azure AI services including Azure Machine Learning, Microsoft Fabric and related analytics patterns, and Copilot Studio and modern agent-based AI approaches.
• Architect solutions on or translate architectures across AWS and Google Cloud Platform (GCP), requiring credible multicloud fluency.
• Collaborate closely with internal and client data platform teams, designing against data management concepts like data quality, lineage, governance, and lifecycle considerations, and feature engineering and data readiness for ML.
• Apply a solid foundation in statistics and applied machine learning to ensure models are architected appropriately and assumptions, limitations, and risks are well understood and communicated.
• Lead business-level and AI-level conversations with C-suite and senior leadership.
• Translate complex technical architectures into clear business narratives tied to value, risk, and outcomes.
• Provide trusted advisory guidance on AI strategy, operating models, and investment decisions.
• Contribute to the development of repeatable consulting offers, assessments, and delivery frameworks.

Benefits

• Competitive Salary
• Generous 401(k) Plan with 100% company match up to 4% of salary
• Performance-Based Compensation with bonus potential
• 100% Employer-Paid Health, Vision, and Dental Insurance for employees
• Company-Paid Life, AD&D, Short and Long-Term Disability Insurance
• Generous Paid Time Off (PTO) - three weeks
• 11 Paid Holidays
• Community Service Leave
• Employee Recognition and Reward Program

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Principal
• Education Level: No Education Listed