- A critical requirement of this role will be your ability to understand our client's industry and their business needs and design solutions that can help address those needs.

- This 'pre-sales' activity is a crucial differentiator for us to win new deals and it requires a strong understanding of our offerings and great verbal and written communication skills.

- You will be responsible for working with the leadership at Akira to help define the strategy for this line of business and implement that strategy.

- Pre-Sales/Solution consultant shall be responsible for positioning and selling digital transformation solutions to customers.

- Interact with clients, perform data analysis, assess processes and systems, and make recommendations on client initiatives.

- The ideal candidate should be hands-on and possess a strong understanding of the combination of Data Science, Data Analytics, and Business Intelligence, with a minimum of 6 years of experience in these areas.

- Additionally, they should have knowledge of the latest AI technologies, such as Gen AI and LLM

- Engaging with sales/pre-sales team and supporting the RFx's by identifying the opportunities and designing the solutions, commercial proposals, demos and bid defence.

- Design customer journeys with a focus on customer centricity and customer experience

- Ability to identify issues, understand end user pain area

- Ability to strategize and curate solution based on identified issues

- Assist in Business Development, proposals and proposition creation

- Comfortable working and interacting closely with the C - Suite executives and can work independently in a collaborative environment

- Support the account management team in working on proactive proposals and demonstration of our solution stack to end customers

- Superior organization skills with the ability and desire to balance multiple projects of varying complexity at the same time

Skill Set:

- 10+ years of experience in data analytics and data engineering domain

- Experienced in any two cloud technologies (AWS/AZURE/GCP)

- Familiar with Technology Outsourcing services across verticals to lend a strategic & market perspective

- Familiarization with emerging technologies such as GenAI, LLMs, Agentic AI, etc.

- Good understanding of business aspects of the requirement

- Must have excellent pre-sales and solutioning skills - worked on PoCs, proposals, pilots, etc.

- Required to understand fairly unstructured requirements from the client and create related SoW and proposals

- Excellent communication (both written and oral) skills

- Proven client engagement skills and adept at sharing insights and recommendations that have tangible business impacts

- Ability to engage with international clients independently and lead discussions to win and execute engagements. (past exposure to US clients desirable)

- Skills in storyboarding, problem solving, and insights generation are must

Experience and Education:

- 10-15 years of experience with major consulting firms delivering strategy and operations projects with an emphasis in business transformation at the intersection of new operating models and new digital technologies.

- B.Tech + MBA or equivalent