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Director, AI and Data Advisory

*Candidates must be based in the Northeast Region of the United States

Pair your adaptable, collaborative, curious mindset with your tech skills to help client digitally transform their ways of working. Better experience for air travellers? Data to help a non-profit better serve kids with needs? An Advisory role at Avanade offers you a purposeful career. Know your clients needs inside out, work with them beginning to end, enjoy achievements together - and repeat.

Come join us

Our Advisory team sits at the intersection of business strategy, technology and industries and thrives on turning ideas and innovations into breakthrough results for leading organizations around the world. An AI and Data Advisory Director is responsible for driving rapid growth within the Avanade Advisory business.

As you bring your skills and abilities to Avanade, you'll get distinctive experiences, limitless learning and ambitious growth in return. As we continue to build our diverse and inclusive culture, we become even more innovative and creative, helping us better serve our clients and our communities. You'll join a community of smart, supportive collaborators to lift, mentor and guide you, but also lean on your expertise. You get a company purpose-built for business-critical, leading-edge technology solutions, committed to improving the way humans work, interact and live. It's all here, so take a closer look! Together we do what matters.

What you'll do

• Lead engagements advising clients at the highest strategic level with big-picture and tactical guidance on how technology enables a wide range of business outcomes.

• Advise clients on the strategic impacts of cloud adoption, data transformations, advanced analytics, machine learning, and intelligent automation.

• Help your clients monetize their data, creating all new experiences for employees and customers alike.

• You will need to be entrepreneurial, enterprising and personable, possessing outstanding leadership and managerial qualities, that allow 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.

Skills and experiences

• 12+ years of Management Consulting experience from a top management or professional services firm

• 5+ years of demonstrated experience interfacing with and selling to executive level clients

• Experience in Advisory solutioning and estimation

• Experience in developing Data Strategy, business cases and roadmaps associated with Data transformation, cloud migrations, etc.

• Experience in conducting Data Strategy and Governance assessments, developing future state process and governance definitions

• Willingness to travel to client site periodically as needed

• Previous experience working on multiple Advisory / Strategy engagements in a highly matrixed external client facing environment, with Talent, Project, Budget Management responsibilities

• Superb communication, presentation, and facilitation skills

• Aptitude for critical and analytical thinking as well as the capacity to design and 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)

• Knowledge of the Data / Analytics strategy and COE definition and development

• Bachelor's degree in related field, MBA preferred

About you

• You are an accomplished leader with experience in an outcome-oriented, entrepreneurial environment. You have demonstrated the ability to develop and execute a strategic plan to drive growth in the region and have management consulting experience.

• You are able to set a compelling direction for the business and innovative strategies to address customer needs.

• You have a strong business acumen, possess an extensive and distinctive track record of delivering growth, and be able to lead teams effectively.

Enjoy your careerSome of the best things about working at Avanade

• Top-shelf clients - our clients accelerate value by being bold, imaginative - and fast. Look at who we work with - you've probably heard of them and just might want to work with them, too.

• Next-level work - Utilize emerging tech and become adept at solving business critical issues, acquire industry expertise, and a deep understanding of the technologies and capabilities within the Microsoft ecosystem.

• Flexible work schedule - We provide employees with a flexible work schedule that includes flexible start and end times as well as the ability to work remotely.

Find out more about some of our benefits [1] here.

A great place to work

As you bring your skills and abilities to Avanade, you'll get distinctive experiences, limitless learning and ambitious growth in return. As we continue to build our diverse and inclusive culture, we become even more innovative and creative, helping us better serve our clients and our communities. You'll join a community of smart, supportive collaborators to lift, mentor and guide you, but also lean on your expertise. You get a company purpose-built for business-critical, leading-edge technology solutions, committed to improving the way humans work, interact and live. It's all here, so take a closer look!

We work hard to provide an inclusive, diverse culture with a deep sense of belonging for all our employees. Visit our [2] Inclusion & Diversity page.

Create a future for our people that focuses on

• Expanding your thinking * Experimenting courageously * Learning and pivoting *

Inspire greatness in our people by

• Empowering every voice * Encouraging boldness * Celebrating progress *

Accelerate the impact of our people by

• Amazing the client * Prioritizing what matters * Acting as one

Learn more

To Learn more about the types of projects our Advisory team works on check out these case studies:

[3] Mater Hospital accelerates its digital transformation to keep patients and healthcare workers safe

[4] QBE is transforming its digital customer experience with Avanade and Accenture

[5] Aon Australia: The secret to helping people connect

[6] Blundstone meets customer demand in an agile way

Interested in knowing what's going on inside Avanade? Check out our blogs:

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Inside Avanade - explore what life is like working at Avanade

Compensation for roles at Avanade varies depending on a wide array of factors including but not limited to the specific office location, role, skill set and level of experience. As required by local law, Avanade provides a reasonable range of compensation for roles that may be hired in New York as set forth below and information on benefits offered is [7] here.

Role Location: Range of Starting Pay for role

New York Metro Area: $223,500-$263,000

References

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1. https://www.avanade.com/en-us/career/benefits

2. https://www.avanade.com/en-us/about-avanade/inclusion-and-diversity

3. https://www.avanade.com/en-gb/clients/mater-digital-transformation

4. https://www.avanade.com/en-gb/clients/qbe

5. https://www.avanade.com/en-gb/clients/aon-australia

6. https://www.avanade.com/en-gb/clients/blundstone-dynamics-365

7. https://www.avanade.com/en/career/benefits