Kearney Value Realization – Data Scientist / AI Expert (Value Assurance)

Job Description
Kearney Value Realization: Data & Analytics – Enterprise Solution Architect
Sr. Manager – Enterprise Solution Architect – Value Assurance
Full-time
Region: APAC
Location: Gurgaon
Job description:
This role is the single point of architectural authority for complex AI-enabled and technology transformation programs, with a particular focus on manufacturing. The incumbent combines enterprise, solution and integration architecture, translating business priorities into a coherent target architecture and ensuring that applications, data, cloud, AI and shop-floor technologies work together across internal teams and delivery partners.
About Kearney
Kearney is a leading global management consulting firm with more than 5,300 people working in more than 40 countries. We work with more than three-quarters of the Fortune Global 500, as well as with the most influential governmental and nonprofit organizations.
Kearney is a partner-owned firm with a distinctive, collegial culture that transcends organizational and geographic boundaries—and it shows. Regardless of location or rank, our consultants are down-to-earth, approachable, and have a shared passion for doing innovative client work that provides clear benefits to the organizations we work with in both the short and long term.
About Value Realization: Data & Analytics India
Kearney's
Value Realization – Data & Analytics
team extends our traditional consulting capabilities beyond strategy into end-to-end execution advisory and solution implementation governance. Through our innovative
"as-a-service"
delivery model, we help clients execute complex transformation programs with value-driven governance, ensuring solutions are delivered on time, within budget, and at the highest quality.
Our expertise spans the entire transformation lifecycle:
Engineer / Co-shape: Market sounding, business blueprinting, solution design, process excellence, IT and business Architecture, implementation scoping & planning (PMI)
Procure / Source: Cost modeling, RFI and RFP management, Vendor and SW selection, performance management, value driven contract management (e.g., master service agreements, SLAs)
Construct / Assure: Governance/ PMO as a service, Chapters as a service (e.g., Product owners, Functional managers, Coaches), agile implementation
By combining deep consulting expertise with execution excellence, we enable organizations to successfully deliver large-scale digital, data, and technology transformation programs.
The Value Realization team delivers direct contribution comparable to Management Consulting through a top-quartile, market-aligned operating model. Our innovative "as-a-service" approach enables unique client offerings and recurring engagements, enhanced by platform services and productivity tools. We also provide an attractive employee proposition with dedicated roles, structured career paths, and a high-performance culture
Key responsibilities
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Own end-to-end architecture alignment across the program, from current-state assessment and target-state design through implementation and value realization
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Define the enterprise and solution architecture for manufacturing use cases, covering business applications, data, cloud, AI, security and shop-floor technology
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Establish integration principles and patterns across ERP, MES, PLM, SaaS, data platforms, AI services and external ecosystems, including API, event-driven and batch interactions
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Specify integration requirements for master data, identity and access, data contracts, error handling, observability, resilience, performance and security
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Review solution designs, interface specifications and non-functional requirements, and resolve deviations from agreed architecture standards
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Identify cross-workstream dependencies, integration risks and failure points early, and resolve them before they affect delivery
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Act as design authority and primary escalation point for architecture decisions across client teams, solution providers and systems integrators
Who you are
After nearly 100 years, we know this business is fundamentally about making connections—between
facts, figures, insights, strategies, tools, technologies, and above all, people. That’s why we look for collaborative, insightful, and inquisitive problem-solvers who don’t accept the first thing in front of them
and who are always unapologetically themselves.
We want to hear from you if you are:
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10+ years of experience across enterprise architecture, solution architecture and integration design roles
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Demonstrated experience shaping or governing large-scale technology and AI-enabled transformations in manufacturing or industrial businesses
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Strong understanding of manufacturing technology landscapes, including ERP, MES, PLM, WMS, quality, maintenance, SCADA / OT, IoT and enterprise data platforms
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Hands-on knowledge of integration patterns and technologies, including APIs, microservices, event streaming, batch interfaces, ETL / ELT, iPaaS and middleware platforms
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Experience with cloud and data platforms and with integrating AI / analytics solutions into core operational workflows
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Track record of engaging CIO, CTO, CDO, COO and business leaders and translating strategic intent into architecture decisions and delivery guardrails
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Experience operating in multi-vendor programs involving product firms, systems integrators, specialist vendors and internal technology teams
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Ability to work with manufacturing process data, sensor data, images, text and enterprise transactional datasets
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Strong architecture governance, design assurance and technology roadmap development capabilities
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Working knowledge of manufacturing processes such as planning, procurement, production, quality, maintenance, warehousing and logistics
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Depth across application, data, cloud, AI and integration architecture, with the ability to challenge detailed technical designs
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Ability to connect architecture and integration choices to business value, operational risk, scalability and total cost of ownership
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Comfort operating at both board / CXO and detailed design / delivery levels
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Strong consulting, stakeholder management and vendor-governance orientation
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Excellent communication and documentation skills, including production of architecture principles, reference architectures, decision records and interface standards
What we can offer you
Every day, our people work to be the difference for our clients, our communities, and our colleagues. Helping them make an impact, they are sustained by a competitive remuneration package plus comprehensive benefits and perks, including but not limited to:
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Generous retirement/pension savings contributions
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Comprehensive medical insurance for employees and their families
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Non-partner equity-based awards (for consulting managers and above)
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Structured and on-the-job learning and development opportunities
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Personalized opportunities including talent mobility, flexible work programs and externships to help you chart a unique career journey to pursue your own personal and professional goals
Read more about our benefits and how you can a make your mark, your way at
Kearney.com/careers
Equal employment opportunity and non-discrimination
Kearney prides itself on providing a culture where our employees belong and thrive equally, which means our people feel comfort, confidence, and joy as they do great things for our firm, our colleagues, and our clients. That’s why Kearney is committed to building a diverse workforce and inclusive environment. Kearney is an equal opportunity employer; we recruit, hire, train, promote, develop, and provide other conditions of employment without regard to a person’s gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, race or ethnicity, religion, age, national origin, disability, marital status, pregnancy status, veteran status, genetic information, or any other differences consistent with applicable laws. This includes providing reasonable accommodation for disabilities or religious beliefs and practices. We encourage everyone to apply, including those who may not feel historically represented in consulting.