AI Transformation Lead

AI Transformation Lead

Septentrio

Leuven, Belgium

Your Mission

AI Strategy & Transformation

• Co-create and continuously refine the company’s AI strategy together with senior leadership and external advisors.
• Translate strategic ambition into a clear AI roadmap with defined priorities, milestones, and measurable business outcomes.
• Continuously evolve the AI strategy based on business impact, technology developments, and market trends.

AI Use Cases & Delivery

• Build and scale AI capabilities, platforms, and AI-powered solutions across the organization.
• Work closely with senior managers and AI champions to identify, design, and deliver high-impact AI use cases with a clear ROI focus.
• Design, select the appropriate platform, prototype, and deploy AI solutions with an initial focus on AI analytics, agentic AI, and sovereign AI.
• Combine hands-on technical delivery with effective collaboration with external vendors and solution partners.

Data Platform & AI Foundations

• Define and help drive the evolution of the organization’s data platform into an AI-ready architecture.
• Ensure high-quality, governed, and accessible data across business domains.
• Design scalable data pipelines, both batch and real-time, together with robust integration patterns.
• Help define platform capabilities required for scalable AI solutions, including feature management, vector-based retrieval, and data discoverability.
• Enable seamless integration between data platforms, AI models, and AI-driven workflows.
• Contribute to strong data governance practices covering quality, lineage, security, and compliance.
• Translate data and technology assessments into a concrete platform roadmap and execution plan.

Governance & Adoption

• Establish practical frameworks and guardrails for responsible AI development and deployment.
• Drive AI adoption by supporting internal AI champions and enabling business teams.
• Foster a culture of experimentation, learning, and continuous improvement.

Your Qualifications

Experience & Background

• Bachelor degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, or a related field.
• Proven experience delivering AI, machine learning, or advanced data-driven solutions in a professional environment.
• Strong hands-on experience in designing, prototyping, building, and deploying AI-powered applications or automation solutions.
• Experience with modern AI concepts such as generative AI, intelligent agents, analytics, and automation.
• Good understanding of modern data platform design, integration patterns, and AI data requirements.

Skills & Competencies

• Strong strategic mindset with the ability to translate business needs into scalable technical solutions.
• Comfortable working in ambiguity and helping define future AI architecture and platform choices.
• Strong stakeholder management skills and excellent communication skills.
• Ability to balance strategic thinking with hands-on execution.
• Entrepreneurial mindset with a strong focus on measurable business impact.