AI Strategist
Category: Analytics and Emerging Digital Technologies
Main location: United States, Texas, Houston
Position ID: J0526-1507
Employment Type: Full Time
Position Description:
Join CGI as a Houston-based AI Strategist and help clients turn AI ambition into deployed, value-generating business capabilities. This is an exciting opportunity for a strategic, technically fluent, and delivery-oriented AI leader to drive AI transformation across Energy, including oil and gas, chemicals, utilities, and industrial clients. The ideal candidate brings executive advisory credibility, deep AI and data fluency, product thinking, and the ability to move from strategy to pilots, MVPs, production solutions, and scaled enterprise deployments. You will play a critical role in shaping CGI's AI growth in the Houston and Energy markets. You will be accountable for converting AI opportunities into funded, delivered, reusable, and measurable solutions that create enterprise value.
This position is located in our Houston, Texas office however a hybrid working model is acceptable. The requirement is an average of 3 days onsite at either client location and/or the CGI Houston, Texas office.
Your future duties and responsibilities:
AI Strategy and Transformation Leadership
. Define enterprise AI strategies, value pools, and transformation roadmaps for Energy and Industrials clients
. Align AI initiatives to business outcomes, operational KPIs, financial value, and ROI models
. Design AI operating models across governance, talent, platform, delivery, funding, and adoption
. Advise CIOs, CTOs, business executives, and boards on AI adoption, risk, competitive differentiation, and enterprise readiness
. Help clients prioritize high-impact AI use cases and sequence them into executable transformation programs
AI Product Mindset and Capability Building
. Design reusable AI products, accelerators, frameworks, and industry capabilities rather than one-off solutions
. Drive use-case industrialization, platform-based scaling, and repeatable delivery models
. Shape reusable components such as agents, copilots, knowledge workflows, orchestration patterns, and automation playbooks
. Establish product thinking within client organizations, including roadmaps, backlogs, feature prioritization, value tracking, and continuous improvement loops
. Help clients mature from isolated AI experiments to scalable enterprise AI capabilities
Delivery Leadership: POC to Scale
. Translate AI strategies into POCs, pilots, MVPs, production solutions, and scaled enterprise deployments
. Define solution architecture patterns, data requirements, integration models, adoption plans, and operating considerations
. Lead hands-on shaping of GenAI, agentic AI, automation, advanced analytics, and AI-enabled workflow solutions
. Ensure ideas move beyond concepts and workshops into deployed capabilities that generate measurable value
. Work with clients and CGI teams to convert strategy into funded delivery opportunities and long-term transformation roadmaps
Energy Industry Specialization
. Apply deep Energy and Industrials expertise across upstream, midstream, downstream, chemicals, petrochemicals, utilities, asset-intensive operations, and industrial environments
. Identify high-value AI use cases in predictive maintenance, turnaround planning, asset reliability, field operations, safety, engineering knowledge capture, contract intelligence, logistics, supply chain, commercial optimization, and workforce productivity
. Navigate OT, industrial, and safety-critical environments with awareness of production risk, human-in-the-loop requirements, fail-safe design, and operational constraints
. Engage credibly with operators, engineers, technologists, and executives
. Translate Energy-specific business challenges into AI-enabled operating improvements and measurable outcomes
Required qualifications to be successful in this role:
We are seeking an AI Strategist who is fluent across modern AI, data, cloud, automation, and enterprise technology ecosystems and can lead the design and delivery of future-forward solutions. The ideal candidate will:
. Demonstrate strong working knowledge of AI/ML, Generative AI, LLMs, copilots, RAG, embeddings, prompt engineering, evaluation, model operations, and AI application architecture
. Guide the design of agentic AI systems, orchestration frameworks, multi-agent workflows, and human-in-the-loop automation
. Apply machine learning, advanced analytics, and intelligent automation concepts to real-world business problems
. Understand modern data platforms and services, including Snowflake, Databricks, data lakes, data governance, metadata, and analytics stacks
. Lead solution shaping across Azure, AWS, Google Cloud Platform, and related AI ecosystems, including Azure OpenAI and cloud-native AI services
. Understand enterprise systems and integration patterns involving SAP, EAM, CMMS, ServiceNow, ERP platforms, workflow platforms, APIs, and operational systems
. Make build vs. buy vs. partner decisions based on business value, technical feasibility, risk, scalability, and time to market
. Embed AI governance, cybersecurity, compliance, model risk management, responsible AI, and ethical AI principles into solution design
. Align AI programs to frameworks such as NIST AI RMF and ISO 42001 where appropriate
. Stay current on emerging AI technology trends and translate those trends into actionable offerings, architectures, and market solutions
. Ability to move fluidly from executive strategy discussions to solution architecture, delivery planning, and implementation oversight
. Strong executive presence, communication skills, business judgment, and consultative problem-solving capability
. Demonstrated ability to create value cases, roadmaps, business narratives, and delivery plans that resonate with senior stakeholders
. 10+ years of experience in consulting, technology, digital transformation, data, AI, or enterprise solution delivery roles
. 5-7+ years of experience working with Energy, Industrials, oil and gas, chemicals, utilities, or asset-intensive clients
. Bachelor's degree required in engineering, computer science, information systems, business, or a related field
. Ability to travel if needed
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Other Information:
CGI is required by law in some jurisdictions to include a reasonable estimate of the compensation range for this role. The determination of this range includes various factors not limited to skill set, level, experience, relevant training, and licensure and certifications. To support the ability to reward for merit-based performance, CGI typically does not hire individuals at or near the top of the range for their role. Compensation decisions are dependent on the facts and circumstances of each case. A reasonable estimate of the current range for this role in the U.S. is $100,800.00 - $245,500.00.
CGI's benefits are offered to eligible professionals on their first day of employment to include:
. Competitive compensation
. Comprehensive insurance options
. Matching contributions through the 401(k) plan and the share purchase plan
. Paid time off for vacation, holidays, and sick time
. Paid parental leave
.Learning opportunities and tuition assistance
. Wellness and Well-being programs
Skills:
Amazon Web Services Cloud
Artificial Intelligence
Azure
Communication
Energy
Google Cloud Platform
Large Language Model (LLM)
Machine Learning
Solutions Architecture
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.
Your work creates value. You'll develop innovative solutions and build relationships with teammates and clients while accessing global capabilities to scale your ideas, embrace new opportunities, and benefit from expansive industry and technology expertise.
You'll shape your career by joining a company built to grow and last. You'll be supported by leaders who care about your health and well-being and provide you with opportunities to deepen your skills and broaden your horizons.
Come join our team-one of the largest IT and business consulting services firms in the world.
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