Brand Technical Specialist- Data and AI: AI Governance SME

Introduction
A Brand Technical Specialist within IBM’s Data & AI brand means accelerating enterprises’ AI success by improving the ability to understand their data and how AI can unlock that data. IBM’s Data and AI organization fuels enterprises’ journeys to AI with data governance and science. At IBM we build and scale AI with trust and transparency to drive digital transformation deliver personalized customer experiences and help enterprises make more data-backed decisions.

In this role you’ll be an elite technical resource that will drive client interest and commitment leveraging a curiosity that sparks innovation and learning. Your contributions will influence sales strategy build trusted client relationships and facilitate client success.

The Role

IBM’s Data and AI organization is currently seeking an AI governance Subject Matter Expert with experience in at least one of the following products: IBM watsonx.governance OpenPages OpenScale and AI Factsheets AWS Sagemaker.

Brand Technical Specialists are the technical experts and advisors to clients IBM sales teams and IBM Business Partners. As a BTS Subject Matter Expert you understand the client’s business requirements technical requirements and competitive landscape. You also apply your AI governance expertise by incorporating software and services into client solutions and ensure client readiness for the implementation of technical solutions.

Your Role and Responsibilities

• Actively develop and progress qualified opportunities with the IBM Sales Team with focus on data governance.
• Deliver solution workshops product demonstrations technical education and Proof of Concepts while articulating business value.
• Act as a deep technical expert in sales opportunities and progress pre-sales engagements.
• Learn deep IBM product skills for IBM Data & AI solutions: Watsonx.governance IBM OpenPages and AI Factsheets.
• Collaborate with IBM sales teams to define design and detail the technical aspects and feasibility of proposed solutions.
• Assist with Request for Proposal (RFP)/Request for Information (RFI) and other technical questionnaires.

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

• Proven experience in designing and delivering AI solutions with a focus on foundation models large language models or similar technologies. Experience in natural language processing (NLP) and text analytics is highly desirable.
• Solutioning Experience: Experience in solution architecture and design translating business requirements into technical specifications and developing scalable and robust AI solutions.
• Education: Bachelor’s Master’s or Ph.D. degree in Computer Science Statistics Artificial Intelligence or a related field.
• Experience with IBM Data Science solutions watsonx Assistant watsonx Discovery watsonx.ai watsonx.data watsonx.governance and watsonx code assistants.
• Familiarity with data lake data fabric Apache Iceberg vector databases object stores non-SQL database concepts.
• Experience with statistics/machine learning packages like TensorFlow Pytorch Scipy Keras Numpy Pandas or Spark MLlib.
• Familiarity with cloud platforms (e.g. AWS Azure GCP) and related services is a plus.