Senior Consultant, Data and Analytics Advisory

Overview:

Avanade is seeking a Senior Consultant to expand its Insight & Analytics Advisory capabilities. You will support engagements advising clients at the highest strategic level with big-picture and tactical guidance on how technology enables a wide range of business outcomes. You must possess exceptional analytical, interpersonal and creative thinking capabilities. You will need to be entrepreneurial, enterprising and personable, possessing exceptional organizational skills, that allows you to assume a critical role in the Advisory Practice with an ability to scale over time. The work you're doing in this role will be of a Strategic nature rather than a software or technology architecture deliverable.

Key Role Responsibilities:

Operating with senior client executives (C-levels, VPs, Directors), you will assist our clients in successfully defining their Data & Artificial Intelligence Strategy, Transformation Initiatives, Investments and Operating Models to support their business priorities.

As a successful Consultant/Senior Consultant you will:

• Support the delivery of a broad range of Data, Advanced Analytics, Visualization, Data Science, RPA and AI related Strategy / Advisory engagements
• Possess deep understanding of trends and strategies for identifying and bringing to bear appropriate approaches and solutions to meet client business, financial and technical objectives
• Conduct detailed analyses to understand and explain client problems and utilize standard consulting leadership skills such as facilitation, interviewing, gap analysis, etc.
• Actively contribute to the creation of client proposals for consulting and/or transformation engagements focused on Data/Analytics/ AI and automation
• Monitor technology trends and raise awareness of capabilities and innovations in selected domains of expertise and contribute towards industry specific offerings

Required Skills & Experience:

• 3+ years of Management Consulting experience from a top management or professional services firm
• Data and Analytics strategy
• Business cases and roadmap development
• Data Governance assessments
• Platform assessment and selection
• Willingness to travel to client site periodically as needed
• Superb communication, presentation and facilitation skills
• Aptitude for critical and analytical thinking as well as the capacity to accept out-of-the box solutions
• Autonomous, positive problem solver, and aptitude to work independently or part of a multi-disciplinary team
• Practical Business Architecture experience (business / operation models, personas, process modelling)
• Bachelor’s degree in related field

Preferred Experience and Skills:

The following skills and capabilities are central to the role, depending on Service Area expertise:

• Cross-sector and functional experience highly desirable (Financial Services/ Healthcare/ Life Sciences/ Manufacturing/ Supply Chain/Business Applications)
• Data, Analytics Strategy, Maturity assessment & Roadmap (using Microsoft technologies)
• COE Setup and Operationalization Plan (Analytics related)
• Data Governance and Management
• Master Data Management
• Process Re-Engineering, Transformation and Adoption
• Sound knowledge in Strategy development involving areas such as Data Architecture, Data Hubbing / Integration, Data Modeling, Data Governance & Management, Data Quality, Data Security, Reporting & Analytics, BI Governance, BI Self-Service;
• MBA