At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead innovative AI projects and guide multidisciplinary teams to deliver impactful solutions.
- Company: Join CGI, a top-rated employer known for its collaborative and inclusive culture.
- Benefits: Enjoy competitive salary, private healthcare, pension scheme, and opportunities for career growth.
- Other info: Flexible hybrid role with travel opportunities and a commitment to diversity.
- Why this job: Shape the future of AI while developing your leadership skills in a supportive environment.
- Qualifications: Experience in technology consulting and strong understanding of AI and enterprise technology.
The predicted salary is between 60750 - 74250 £ per year.
At CGI, we're helping organisations unlock the potential of AI, turning ambitious ideas into practical solutions that deliver measurable business value. As a Lead Business Consultant, you'll shape and lead innovative AI engagements, bringing together consulting expertise, engineering talent and client stakeholders to accelerate transformation. You'll take ownership of delivery, guide multidisciplinary teams and help clients navigate the journey from discovery and experimentation to responsible, production-ready AI solutions.
Your future duties and responsibilities:
- Lead & Deliver: Own AI delivery plans, manage multidisciplinary engineering teams and coordinate priorities, resources and outcomes across client engagements.
- Discover & Shape: Facilitate executive workshops, AI maturity assessments and use case prioritisation sessions, translating business challenges into actionable opportunities.
- Innovate & Validate: Guide the design and delivery of AI proofs of value, establishing acceptance criteria, evaluating feasibility and determining readiness for further investment.
- Measure & Demonstrate Value: Define business outcomes, establish performance baselines and assess AI economics, including implementation costs, operational expenditure and anticipated benefits.
- Collaborate & Influence: Build trusted relationships with senior stakeholders, architects and delivery specialists, ensuring technical decisions support business objectives.
- Champion Responsible AI: Embed appropriate governance, security, ethical considerations and adoption requirements throughout the delivery lifecycle.
- Transition & Scale: Coordinate production readiness, operational handover and ongoing support arrangements to enable sustainable AI adoption.
- Coach & Develop: Provide leadership, mentoring and constructive feedback to engineering colleagues, supporting individual development and high-performing teams.
- Shape & Grow: Identify commercial opportunities, contribute to proposals and bids, and develop reusable delivery approaches that strengthen CGI's AI consulting capabilities.
Required qualifications to be successful in this role:
- Technology Consulting Experience: Proven experience advising clients on technology strategy, transformation and delivery, translating business requirements into practical solutions.
- AI & Emerging Technology Knowledge: Strong understanding of AI technologies, use cases and enterprise applications, including the opportunities, limitations and considerations involved in implementation.
- Delivery Leadership: Demonstrable experience leading technology projects, workstreams or multidisciplinary teams, managing priorities, resources, risks and delivery outcomes.
- Stakeholder Management: Excellent communication, facilitation and influencing skills, with experience engaging senior business and technical stakeholders.
- Technical Fluency: Broad knowledge of enterprise technology, architecture, cloud, data or AI, with the ability to collaborate effectively with technical specialists on integration and solution design.
- Business Value & Commercial Awareness: Experience developing business cases, evaluating technology investments, defining measurable outcomes and supporting commercial proposals.
- Agile & Iterative Delivery: Practical experience working with agile methodologies, managing delivery backlogs and guiding solutions from discovery through to implementation.
- Responsible AI & Governance: Awareness of AI governance, security, data protection, adoption and operational considerations within enterprise environments.
- People Leadership & Coaching: Experience mentoring colleagues, developing team capabilities and fostering effective collaboration across diverse disciplines.
- Problem-Solving & Strategic Thinking: Strong analytical skills, with the ability to assess complex challenges, evaluate options and recommend solutions that balance business value, technical feasibility and delivery risk.
What you can expect from us:
Together, as owners, let’s turn meaningful insights into action. Life at CGI is rooted in ownership, teamwork, respect and belonging. Here, you’ll reach your full potential because you are invited to be an owner from day 1 as we work together to bring our Dream to life. That’s why we call ourselves CGI Partners rather than employees. We benefit from our collective success and actively shape our company’s strategy and direction.
Lead Business Consultant employer: CGI
At CGI, we pride ourselves on being an inclusive employer that fosters a supportive and collaborative work culture. As a Platform Engineer in Glasgow, you'll enjoy competitive benefits including a strong pension scheme, private healthcare, and the opportunity to become a CGI Partner through our share scheme. With a commitment to employee growth and development, you'll have the freedom to innovate and make a meaningful impact while working alongside a diverse community of experts dedicated to shaping the future of technology.
