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NTT DATA is building a focused AI Center of Excellence to accelerate the practical use of AI across our SAP and managed services business. The Head of AI Center of Excellence will lead a small, high-impact team of forward deployed builders who work directly on real operational and customer problems, turning AI potential into measurable value. The ideal candidate is a hands-on AI leader with strong technical judgment, business understanding, and operational drive.
Job Responsibility
Hiring, developing, and leading a team of technical AI builders
The priority of the CoE AI is to improve internal managed services performance
Creating a high-performance culture focused on shipping working solutions
Ensuring the team works directly with business and technical stakeholders
Prioritizing use cases based on value, feasibility, scalability, and strategic relevance
Establishing clear entry and exit criteria for CoE involvement
Identify the business problem
Validate whether AI is the right mechanism
Define the target outcome and KPIs
Build or orchestrate a working MVP
Test with real users, real data, and real process constraints, measure impact
Decide whether to stop, scale, hand over, or productize.
Requirements
Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience
At least 7 to 10 years of hands‑on experience in full-stack, backend, platform, integration, or automation engineering background, TypeScript, JavaScript, Python, or similar modern programming languages
Strong understanding of applied AI, generative AI, agentic AI, and automation
Experience building or leading teams that deliver working software or AI solutions
Ability to architect AI systems and challenge technical decisions
Understanding of enterprise IT, application management, or managed services
Strong appreciation of SAP environments and the operational realities of SAP services
Ability to work with ticketing, service management, and operational data
Experience moving ideas from discovery to MVP to production handover
Strong stakeholder management across business, delivery, architecture, and operations
Ability to prioritize based on measurable value rather than hype
Comfort working within enterprise constraints, standards, and platform decisions
Strong communication skills and fluent English
German is a plus.
Nice to have
German is a plus.
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