Position: AI/ML Advisor – Oil & Gas
Location: Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
We are looking for a seasoned AI/ML Advisor to drive the identification, development, and implementation of AI-driven solutions within the Oil & Gas industry.
This position will serve as a bridge between business, technology, and industry teams, helping customers translate business challenges into practical opportunities leveraging Artificial Intelligence, Generative AI, Machine Learning, and Advanced Analytics.
Key Responsibilities
Customer Advisory & Business Development
- Partner with customers to understand business challenges, operational requirements, and strategic priorities, and identify opportunities where AI/ML, GenAI, and Advanced Analytics can create measurable value.
- Facilitate customer discovery sessions, workshops, requirements gathering, and solution-definition exercises.
- Evaluate business processes, data availability, technology environments, and organizational readiness to determine suitable AI/ML approaches.
- Advise customers on the application of AI/ML technologies across Oil & Gas business processes and operational environments.
- Collaborate with technical experts, engineers, operational teams, and business stakeholders to identify and prioritize high-impact AI/ML use cases.
- Lead the definition of project scope, effort estimates, resource requirements, delivery plans, assumptions, dependencies, and risks.
- Develop Statements of Work (SOWs), solution concepts, architectures, proposals, implementation roadmaps, and delivery strategies.
- Work closely with sales, consulting, engineering, and delivery teams to develop technical and commercial proposals.
- Define project objectives, deliverables, success measures, governance models, and implementation approaches.
- Build trusted customer relationships and support the identification and development of new AI/ML opportunities.
- Support go-to-market activities, client workshops, industry engagements, and AI/ML thought leadership initiatives.
- Develop reusable AI/ML solutions, frameworks, accelerators, methodologies, and industry-specific offerings.
Technical & Delivery Advisory
- Provide technical and strategic direction throughout the project lifecycle, from solution design through implementation and adoption.
- Review AI/ML solution architectures, models, algorithms, and implementation approaches to ensure quality, scalability, reliability, and alignment with business requirements.
- Guide project teams on AI/ML best practices, MLOps, model lifecycle management, model governance, and Responsible AI.
- Provide oversight on delivery risks, technical issues, dependencies, and stakeholder concerns, supporting effective resolution where required.
- Advise customers and delivery teams on the deployment, adoption, integration, and operationalization of AI/ML solutions.
- Ensure AI/ML initiatives remain focused on measurable business impact and long-term sustainability.
Leadership & Capability Development
- Lead, mentor, and develop a team of AI/ML, Data Science, and Analytics professionals.
- Establish technical standards, methodologies, development practices, and quality frameworks across the AI/ML practice.
- Drive technical capability-building through coaching, knowledge sharing, training, and mentoring.
- Contribute to recruitment, onboarding, career development, performance management, and succession planning.
- Encourage innovation, continuous learning, collaboration, and technical excellence across the AI/ML organization.
- Build and strengthen the organization's internal AI/ML capabilities, expertise, and reusable intellectual property.
Skills & Qualifications
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Data Science, Engineering, Mathematics, Statistics, or a related discipline.
- 10+ years of experience in AI, Machine Learning, Data Science, Advanced Analytics, or related technology fields.
- Strong background in customer-facing consulting, solution advisory, presales, business development, or solution architecture.
- Proven track record of taking AI/ML initiatives from business opportunity identification and solution design through implementation and adoption.
- Experience in project scoping, effort estimation, resource planning, proposal development, and senior stakeholder engagement.
- Strong knowledge of Artificial Intelligence, Generative AI, Machine Learning, Deep Learning, NLP, Computer Vision, Predictive Analytics, and MLOps.
- Hands-on experience with Python and modern AI/ML frameworks, tools, and platforms.
- Experience with cloud and data platforms such as Microsoft Azure, AWS, Google Cloud, Databricks, or equivalent technologies.
- Strong understanding of data architecture, data engineering, SQL/NoSQL databases, data platforms, and analytics environments.