Advisory Associate, AI - Summer 2026 (Houston)

Job Summary:

With a global network serving clients across multiple industries and countries, our AI game changers are poised for widespread technological impact. Our industry-recognized team is in high demand across data analytics, robotic process automation, and artificial intelligence. We gravitate towards bright individuals who value impactful change, worldly purpose, and a personal connection with diverse innovators. This role allows you to work with a team of talented consultants, requiring you to balance innovation with pragmatic client expectation management. With our team, you will be challenged to build scalable solutions, while embracing a fail-forward mentality critical to evolution. Whether you’re telling a data story in ways our clients never imagined or building advanced AI models with automated data engineering, the core purpose will be centered on using data to impact people in a meaningful way.

This position works with cutting edge technology, deliver high quality solutions across various industries and collaborate with teams on engagements that range in size and scope. This position receives continuous career development opportunities, given the size and potential of client engagements. This role performs hands-on delivery of solutions that include artificial intelligence (AI) and cognitive services, ML models, pipelines, databases, and other data analytics components, contributing to the development and unit testing of solutions.

Job Duties:

• Supports the designs, and implements best in class solutions that include AI and cognitive services, ML models, data ingestion strategies, semantic layers and models, visualizations, streaming processes, API integrations, and automation (RPA) solutions for end-to-end data analytics solutions on primarily, but not limited to, cloud analytics platforms such as Azure and AWS
• Leverages multiple Large Language Models (LLM) to enhance natural language processing capabilities and supports in developing advanced AI applications
• Supports in designing and implementing solutions incorporating retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) architectures and multimodal embeddings to enhance AI-driven insights by combining text, images, and structured data sources
• Listens to client needs to align solutions with business requirements and delivery schedules
• Supports in creating written functional and technical designs
• Participates in project status and stand meetings, and assists with providing aggregated project status for project and program managers
• Assists with SLA compliance of solutions, and performs performance tuning and optimization efforts of end-to-end solutions
• Supports in writing code using multiple languages and correctly applies frameworks, architectural patterns, and software development principles
• Supports in delivery of high-performance, scalable, repeatable, and secure deliverables with broad impact (high throughput and low latency)
• Assists with implementation of governance programs and best practices
• Supports in performing the cleaning and transforming of data from source systems into analytics models
• Supports in implementing models to support data visualizations and integrations
• Assists with implementing MLOps/AIOps, DevOps, DataOps, methodologies on projects
• Supports in writing custom integration logic in applicable programming languages
• Contributes to successful deployments of developed solutions and integration of DevOps, AIOps, and MLOps tools
• Maintains a broad and current understanding of data analytics and business intelligence strategies, cloud platforms, methodologies, and tools
• Builds client relationships during project execution, effectively becoming a trusted advisor of the client
• Participates in support activities for existing software solutions
• Other duties as assigned

Qualifications, Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

Education:

• Bachelor’s degree, required; focus in Information Systems, Data Science or Computer Science, preferred

Experience:

• One ( 1 ) or more years of experience within Artificial Intelligence , Data Analytics, Business Intelligence, Machine Learning, Application Development, required
• Internship, academic project, or practicum experience developing AI, analytics, or automation solutions, preferred
• Experience working with cloud-based data or AI tools in Azure or AWS, preferred
• Internship, academic project, or practicum experience developing AI, analytics, or automation solutions, preferred

License/Certifications:

• Experience working with cloud-based data or AI tools in Azure or AWS, preferred
• Databricks Fundamentals certification, preferred

Software:

• Knowledge of AI/ML model lifecycle, required
• Knowledge and experience with AI & ML Platforms such as Azure Cognitive Services or AWS SageMaker & ML Services, preferred
• SQL skills including Data Definition Language (DDL), Data Manipulation Language (DML), views, functions, stored procedures, or performance tuning, required
• Experience with one (1) or more of the following computer languages, preferred:
• C#
• Python
• Java
• Experience with Large Language Models (LLM), preferred
• Hands on delivery experience of end-to-end cloud data analytics solutions within Azure or AWS, preferred
• Experience with Data Warehousing, Data Modeling, Semantic Model Definition or Star Schema Construction, preferred
• Experience with tabular modeling within Power BI or Azure Analysis Services, preferred
• Experience with Git, DevOps, and MLOps deployment technologies, preferred
• Experience with Linux, preferred
• Experience with one (1) or more of the following, preferred:
• AI Algorithms/Machine Learning
• Computer Vision based AI technologies

Language:

• N/A

Other Knowledge, Skills & Abilities:

• Ability to work with a high degree of professionalism and autonomy
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Solid organizational skills, especially the ability to meet project deadlines with a focus on details
• Ability to successfully multi-task while working independently or within a group environment
• Ability to work in a deadline-driven environment, and handle multiple projects simultaneously
• Ability to interact effectively with people at all organizational levels of the Firm
• Ability to effectively interact with a team of professionals and delegating work assignments, as needed
• Ability to build and maintain strong relationships with internal and client personnel

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