Data & AI Consultant, Advisory Services

Location: Irvine (HQ)

At ARKANCE US, we empower design, engineering, construction, and manufacturing teams to work smarter, deliver stronger outcomes, and build a better world. As part of the global ARKANCE Group - a trusted partner with deep industry expertise, innovative technology solutions, and high-performing teams across 19 countries - we bring together technology, consulting, and services that help organizations transform how they design, build, and operate.

Our culture is built on our people and our values - guided by integrity, innovation, customer success, education, financial responsibility, and an employee-first mindset. We believe that when great people come together around a shared purpose and set of values, we create lasting value for our customers, our communities, and each other.

Job Description Summary

The Data & AI Consultant is a client-facing advisor responsible for shaping ARKANCE's AI Foundations practice and for guiding customers on how to turn their data and AI ambitions into practical, achievable direction. The role sits at the front of the engagement, helping clients understand where they are, what is possible, and what to do first, and it shapes the AI-related services that run through ARKANCE's advisory offerings.

Working alongside the advisory team, the Data & AI Consultant leads data and AI readiness conversations, frames use cases against real business outcomes, and translates the client's data reality into a direction they can act on. The role is deliberately advisory-first: it is focused on discovery, assessment, design, and recommendation, rather than on production build. It carries enough hands-on data and AI depth to prototype, prove a concept, and bridge into delivery when an engagement needs it, working with the Lead Data Engineer and the delivery team to hand work across cleanly.

The Data & AI Consultant also helps stand up AI Foundations as a practice within the firm: contributing to its offerings, its assessment approach, and the reusable frameworks that let the practice scale. As the practice matures, this role helps define what good looks like for data and AI advisory across ARKANCE's client base in the AECO industry.

Essential Functions

Client Advisory & Engagement

• Lead data and AI readiness assessments with clients, establishing an honest picture of current-state data structure, quality, governance, and capability.
• Frame AI and data use cases against measurable business outcomes, helping clients separate what is valuable from what is merely possible.
• Facilitate client workshops and design sessions that shape a data and AI direction the organization can realistically execute.
• Translate technical data and AI concepts into language executives and operational leaders can act on, serving as a trusted advisor rather than a vendor.
• Contribute the data and AI perspective to broader advisory engagements, ensuring the target state and roadmap account for data and AI readiness.