Senior Data & AI Consultant - Design & Adoption
About the job
- A Bac+5 degree from a business school, engineering school, university, or equivalent is required.
- At least 10 years of experience in data, including data visualization, data transformation, project management, product management, consulting, and adoption, is required.
- The candidate must be able to work across functional and technical environments and coordinate business, information technology, and project stakeholders in agile and multicultural contexts.
- The candidate must be able to structure a data roadmap and demonstrate strong interest in artificial intelligence.
- The candidate must have strong knowledge of self-service analytics, indicator governance, and adoption of decision-support uses.
- The candidate must understand user experience and user interface design concepts.
- The candidate must have strong knowledge of data visualization tools such as Power BI.
- The candidate must be able to transform complex problems into understandable and actionable decision-making indicators using analytical modeling principles, including data warehouses, data marts, dimensional modeling, business metrics, and semantic layers.
- The candidate must be proficient in using generative and agentic artificial intelligence to accelerate Product Owner and data-analysis activities.
- Knowledge of the Artificial Intelligence Act is required.
- The candidate must understand agile methods and be able to work in Scrum, Scaled Agile Framework, or Kanban environments.
- The candidate must have backlog management and impact-oriented prioritization skills.
- The candidate must be proficient with collaborative and project-management tools including Jira, Confluence, and GitHub.
- Professional English at a minimum C1 level, both spoken and written, is required.
- The candidate must be able to work with multidisciplinary teams.
- Advise business and information technology leadership on decision-support strategy.
- Build data, business intelligence, and artificial intelligence roadmaps with expected value during data-scoping assignments.
- Secure solution implementation by aligning business needs, information technology constraints, and adoption.
- Define and disseminate data and artificial intelligence best practices.
- Contribute to structuring ecosystems that use artificial intelligence.
- Participate in establishing robust and pragmatic data and artificial intelligence governance.
- Intervene from ideation through production deployment.
- Collect, analyze, and challenge business needs to design analytical solutions for management and decision-making challenges.
- Propose mockups aligned with business needs and user experience and user interface principles.
- Define and document key performance indicators to ensure a single, shared view of data.
- Translate business needs into prioritized artificial-intelligence features while maintaining consistency among business expectations, user experience, and technical solutions.
- Structure and prioritize a value-oriented backlog based on user impact and feasibility.
- Lead delivery in Scrum, Scaled Agile Framework, or Kanban organizations.
- Lead business workshops and adoption-support programs.
- Train and support users in adopting new uses.
- Support the skills development of citizen developers and business teams, including by leading a self-service community.
- Contribute to reusable assets such as methods, deliverables, and reusable prompts to industrialize projects.
- Lead and promote Talan’s Design & Adoption community through internal conferences, experience sharing, methodology workshops, articles, and expert events.
- Share design, modern business intelligence, and generative and agentic artificial intelligence best practices through training, mentoring, and skills-development programs.
- Participate in presales and requests for proposals, providing expertise on data maturity, self-service implementation, adoption of new tools, and artificial-intelligence uses applied to data.
- Experience with Figma is a plus.
- Knowledge of Power BI, Tableau, Qlik, or Looker is a plus.
- PSPO II certification is listed.
- AI-900 or Copilot for Microsoft 365 certification is listed.
About the company
Talan is a European consulting and IT services group that helps organizations transform and adapt to fast-changing environments. It offers a full range of services from strategic business consultancy to packaged IT solutions, including production support, software development, business analysis, and nearshore delivery. The company works by deploying multidisciplinary teams across its global offices to guide clients through agile transformations, change programs, and IT modernization. Talan differentiates itself through its international footprint, sector focus on Major Service Operators, and a culture built on transparency, respect, teamwork, entrepreneurial spirit, and commitment. With strong organic growth and a large pool of over 3,500 consultants, its goal is to create and share value for clients while coaching and developing its people—empowering customers to transform and compete more effectively.
Company Size
1,001-5,000
Company Stage
Late Stage VC
Total Funding
$110M
Headquarters
Paris, France
Founded
2002
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What believers are saying
- June 2026 closing of the 2.6-gigawatt Western PJM deal shows capital-market access.
- September 2026 gas-code submission positions Talan inside a regulated UK infrastructure redesign.
- Nova Consulting and Dataroots broaden advisory and AI capabilities for higher-margin enterprise work.
What critics are saying
- Ofgem decides Talan's Xoserve-Encodar gas bid by November 2026; rejection removes a marquee win.
- Micropole and recent acquisitions require integration; culture clashes can erode margins through 2027.
- Acquisition-led growth creates existential dependence on cheap deal flow and debt financing.
What makes Talan unique
- Talan runs hybrid consulting plus implementation teams across 7,000 talents worldwide.
- Its 2026 CEO, François Soubien, targets 30% consulting mix and AI leadership by 2030.
- TowerBrook-backed M&A built 22 acquisitions, including Micropole, Nova Consulting, and Dataroots.
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0%Meet the partnership behind the proposed Gas Network Code Manager. 6 August 2026 Xoserve, Encodar and Talan have come together to develop a collaborative proposal for the future Gas Network Code Manager. Meet the partnership. In this video, representatives from each organisation explain what they bring to the partnership, how they are working together and their shared ambition for a future-ready Code Manager. The partnership combines deep industry knowledge with expertise in code administration, governance, customer engagement, data and digital transformation. By bringing these capabilities together, the team is working to develop a model that is trusted by both industry and the regulator, while remaining responsive to the changing needs of the Great British gas market. The proposal is designed to support Ofgem's Strategic Direction Statement and help the industry navigate regulatory reform, digitalisation and the transition to net zero. Get in touch. If you have any feedback or questions on any of the above, please email Xoserve Limited at [email protected].
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