# Practice Director, Data & AI - Remote US Only

The Practice Director, Data & AI leads the Data & AI practice within the Presales & Solution Architecture function and reports to the Chief Technology Officer, SVP. This role owns the full strategic, commercial, operational, and talent agenda for the practice across three offering areas: Data Modernization & Governance, AI Transformation & Solutions, and Data Infrastructure & Operations. It blends hands-on technical leadership with business acumen, driving pipeline growth, customer outcomes, and delivery readiness for mid-market clients, with a partner-led approach anchored by Microsoft and complemented by other leading data, AI, and infrastructure platforms. The Practice Director is responsible for setting practice strategy, developing standardized offerings, building the team, and cultivating partner relationships. Success requires close collaboration with sales, delivery, and operations to achieve both short-term deal success and long-term practice maturity. This role leads the Data & AI practice as a single, integrated practice built around one buyer story: modernize the data estate, put AI to work, and run AI securely and economically. Responsibilities include practice strateg

- **Id**: 3485210
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/blue-mantis-practice-director-data-ai-remote-us-only>
- **Role**: Leadership
- **Role family**: Leadership
- **Seniority**: head
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: remote
- **Remote scope**: stated_countries
- **Remote scope basis**: posting_text
- **Hiring geo confidence**: explicit
- **Hiring countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 1
- **Experience years min**: 10
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-10-28T21:33:14Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-10-28
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-10T09:41:17Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 12
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 16022
- **Description truncated**: yes
- **Benefits**: Equity
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Managed Security, Managed IT Services (MSP), Cloud Consulting & Migration

## Company

- **Id**: 668924
- **Name**: Blue Mantis
- **Domain**: bluemantis.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/bluemantis>
- **Size band**: 51-200
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Pinpoint

## Salary

- **Min**: 200000
- **Max**: 230000
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 230000

## Technologies

- **Agentic Workflows** — Optional: no
- **AI Agents** — Optional: no
- **Azure** — Optional: no
- **Copilot** — Optional: no
- **FinOps** — Optional: no
- **Microsoft Fabric** — Optional: no
- **Power BI** — Optional: no
- **RAG** — Optional: no
- **Red Teaming** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 12

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 10
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: bachelor
- **Optional**: no

## Hiring locations

- **United States** — Iso: US; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-10-29T21:33:14Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 68
- **Band**: ok
- **Label**: Likely open
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.903
- **P room**: 0.75
- **Age days**: 12
- **Expected fill days**: 15
- **Reasons**: conf:2, velocity, win:late
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-10T06:52:35Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 230000
- **Is top pay**: no

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