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# Service Line Leader, Data & AI

- **Company:** Lantern
- **Location:** Dallas, TX, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Agile Methodology, Artificial Intelligence, Data Analysis, Microsoft Azure, Data Governance, Machine Learning, Scrum Methodology, Power BI, Generative AI, Microsoft Fabric, Databricks
- **Published:** September 22, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=e482554f715e678b

## About the Role

* 10+ years of progressive leadership in consulting or professional services, including responsibility for growing a Data & AI portfolio and leading high-performing teams.
 * Demonstrated success managing scope, schedules, budgets, resources, risks, dependencies, change control, and executive-level client communications.
 * Strong consulting and customer-management skills, with the ability to build trust and communicate effectively with technical teams, business leaders, and executive sponsors.
 * Practical experience with Agile, Scrum, Kanban, and traditional delivery methods, and the judgment to tailor governance to engagement size and complexity.
 * Working knowledge of modern Data & AI delivery, including Azure Databricks, Microsoft Fabric, Power BI, Azure, data governance, analytics, machine learning, generative AI, or agentic solutions.
 * Experience with resource and capacity planning, utilization, financial forecasting, contract compliance, and delivery performance reporting in a professional-services environment.
 * Strong facilitation, negotiation, organization, problem-solving, documentation, and escalation-management skills across multiple concurrent priorities.

## Description

* Define and execute the Data & AI service line strategy, operating plan, investment priorities, and multi-year growth roadmap.
 * Build and take differentiated offerings and sales plays to market based on client demand, Lantern capabilities, industry trends, and partner priorities.
 * Own pipeline coverage, bookings, revenue, gross margin, forecast accuracy, and strategic account expansion.
 * Lead executive client conversations, opportunity qualification, complex pursuits, commercial models, and proposals that connect technology to measurable business outcomes.

Delivery & Client Outcomes

 * Establish delivery standards, governance, reusable assets, and quality controls that enable predictable, scalable execution.
 * Partner with Delivery and Operations leaders to mobilize teams, monitor portfolio health, manage risk, resolve escalations, and protect client outcomes.
 * Optimize staffing, capacity, utilization, and the employee-to-partner mix to support growth, profitability, and delivery excellence.
 * Build trusted executive relationships that increase client satisfaction, referenceability, retention, and repeat business.

People, Capability & Culture

 * Set a clear vision and operating rhythm that aligns leaders and consultants around growth, quality, innovation, and client impact.
 * Build leadership depth and scalable capability through coaching, career development, certifications, communities of practice, and succession planning.
 * Partner with Recruiting and People & Culture on workforce planning, hiring, retention, engagement, and an inclusive, high-performance culture.

Technology & Partner Leadership

 * Translate emerging Data & AI capabilities into pragmatic client value, market offerings, and reusable intellectual property.
 * Guide strategy and capability development across Microsoft Fabric, Azure, Databricks, analytics, machine learning, generative AI, governance, and agentic solutions.
 * Develop joint growth plans and executive relationships with Microsoft, Databricks, and other strategic partners to accelerate co-sell opportunities and client impact.
 * Strengthen Lantern's market reputation through thought leadership, industry participation, client innovation, and sales enablement.