Data and AI Cloud Solutions - Integrated Cloud Consulting Director (Location Flexible)

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We are the leading provider of professional services to the middle market globally, our purpose is to instill confidence in a world of change, empowering our clients and people to realize their full potential. Our exceptional people are the key to our unrivaled, culture and talent experience and our ability to be compelling to our clients. You'll find an environment that inspires and empowers you to thrive both personally and professionally. There's no one like you and that's why there's nowhere like RSM. In order to address the most critical needs of our clients, RSM US LLP established the Integrated Cloud Consulting (IC) practice within our National Consulting team dedicated to serving the enterprise cloud and infrastructure platform needs of our clients by utilizing resources and expertise across the firm. This group consists of high-level leading consultants located throughout the globe positioned to serve a diverse client base within a variety of industries and are focused on meeting our clients where they need us most across a variety of domains - helping them realize their desired outcomes through our cloud advisory, implementation, and operations. This team partners with our National Sales team in pre-sales activities, our Consulting leaders, and our extensive delivery teams to lead and oversee large-scale projects. Job Overview RSM is seeking a highly accomplished Director to lead Data and AI consulting engagements across our Integrated Cloud Consulting practice in North America. This is a client-facing, revenue-generating leadership role that blends enterprise data strategy, cloud architecture, and practice development - positioning RSM as the trusted Data & AI advisor for middle-market and public sector clients. The ideal candidate operates fluidly at the executive advisory layer and the solution architecture layer, bringing deep platform fluency across both meta-service providers and hyperscaler-native ecosystems. Strategy & Advisory Serve as the primary subject matter authority on enterprise data strategy - owning client engagements from initial vision through governance, AI readiness assessment, platform selection, and roadmap execution Advise CIOs, CDOs, CTOs, and CFOs on data modernization, AI strategy, and cloud transformation Develop differentiated point-of-view narratives that translate data and AI capabilities into tangible business value for middle-market buyers Represent RSM at industry events, partner summits, and conferences; contribute thought leadership through whitepapers, webinars, and practitioner briefings Go-to-Market & Presales Lead technical presales activities including discovery workshops, solution design sessions, architecture presentations, and RFP/RFI responses Collaborate with RSM account teams and industry leaders to identify, qualify, and progress pipeline; author Statements of Work, proposals, and scoping documentation Co-develop the Data & AI service portfolio in close collaboration with RSM service and practice leaders Practice Development Define and build repeatable delivery assets including methodologies, playbooks, accelerators, and reference architectures Build and mentor a high-performing team of architects, engineers, and analysts across North America Champion hyperscaler competency milestones and manage vendor partnership relationships across AWS, Azure, and GCP tiers Independent Data Platforms (Cloud-Agnostic) Snowflake - data cloud, governance, data sharing, and marketplace patterns Databricks - Lakehouse design, Delta Lake, Unity Catalog, ML/AI workflows dbt, Informatica, and complementary transformation and orchestration tooling Hyperscaler-Native Solutions AWS - Redshift, Glue, Lake Formation, SageMaker, Bedrock Azure / Microsoft Fabric - Fabric, Synapse, Azure Data Factory, Power BI, Azure OpenAI GCP - BigQuery, Vertex AI, Dataflow (familiarity considered an asset) Experience & Qualifications 10+ years of progressive experience in data, analytics, or cloud technology consulting, with at least 3 years in a senior client-facing or practice leadership role Demonstrated delivery experience across both independent data platforms (Snowflake, Databricks) and at least one hyperscaler-native stack, preferably AWS. Proven presales track record - owning proposals, leading solution presentations, and closing consulting engagements Strong enterprise architecture credentials: The Open Group TOGAF or Master Certified Architect designation strongly preferred Experience engaging C-suite stakeholders as a technical advisor and strategic consultant Familiarity with regulated or public sector verticals (financial services, manufacturing, energy, government) an asset Preferred Certifications AWS Certified Data Analytics Specialty, Solutions Architect Professional, or ML Specialty Databricks Certified Associate or Professional Data Engineer Microsoft Fabric / Azure Data certifications (DP-600, DP-203, or equivalent) Snowflake certifications (SnowPro Core, Advance