West Monroe · 1 day ago
Advisory Lead - Data/AI Due Diligence
West Monroe is a global business and technology consulting firm looking for an Advisory Lead - Data/AI Due Diligence to join their Technology & Experience Practice. The role involves partnering with Transaction Services advisors to deliver technology M&A due diligence projects and lead strategic enterprise projects across various industries.
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Responsibilities
Collaborate with cross functional teams, Transaction Services’ consultants from other competencies (i.e., Software Engineering, Cloud & Infrastructure, Cybersecurity, Data & Analytics) in support of holistic, tech due diligence assessments for client M&A activity and identify growth and remediation opportunities through analysis of existing data and analytics systems, business processes and data monetization opportunities
Assess underlying technology/libraries/tooling landscape within enterprise organizations to make recommendations to strategic investors on improving market readiness, achieving long-term scalability, and/or reducing operational cost
Formulate strategic investment summaries, key risk mitigation analyses, and long-term technology-based strategy for both pre-close and post-close projects
Establish the linkage between business strategy and data strategy (and vice versa) to deliver impactful outcomes
Executive presence with the ability to present, interpret, and recommend results of work including the development of new concepts, major advances in the field, new major applications, and progress on all product programs
Be a thought leader, create white papers and represent the organization at various industry conferences and events
Provide leadership and mentoring to data engineers/architects/BI analysts and practitioners
Be the visible face of the data engineering/AI team to internal partners, external customers and prospects, and the data architect community at large
Be a Subject Matter Expert (SME) for the data platform engineering (ingestion through insights), data strategy, data modeling initiatives across the department’s big data projects
Keep pulse of the latest development trends in cloud (AWS, GCP, Azure, etc), data platforms (Databricks, Snowflake etc), databases (RDBMS, SQL, NoSQL, Oracle, etc.), reporting (PowerBI, Quicksight, etc.), ETL/ELT, data warehousing, data hubs, data lakes, data marts etc. and various tools, products, and use cases
Expertise in data warehousing approaches (Kimball, Inmon), normalized and de-normalized data models including dimensional schemas (star, snowflake)
Strong understanding of streaming (e.g. Kafka, Kinesis), batch& workflow (e.g. Airflow, AWS Glue, CTTRL-M) data transport technologies
Experience with Data Visualization tools including PowerBI, Tableau, Looker, etc
Understanding of how AI ties into business operations and value creation, providing the strategy to leverage AI
Drive new business with existing clients by identifying unique opportunities and liaising to appropriate client leads, account managers, or business developers
Experience in diligence to evaluate data usage, identify gaps, and propose future use cases for AI
Qualification
Required
Master's/Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or equivalent relevant work experience
Minimum 10+ years of hands-on professional development experience in data modeling and data design and must have hands on experience implementing solutions
Experience with the technical programming to access and extract data from diverse sources residing on multiple platforms and implement large, sophisticated data models by combining, synthesizing, and structuring data
Experience performing complex data migration to and from disparate data systems/platforms as well as to/from the cloud (AWS, Azure, GCP, etc.)
Good knowledge of standard concepts, best practices, and procedures within a data warehousing and Business Intelligence (BI) environment
Provide Points of View (POV) and recommendations for cloud-native, industry-leading products along with emerging, start-up offerings
including proposal development, estimation, and day-to-day project management (time tracking, budgeting, status reporting, etc.)
Strong sense of urgency with comfortability delivering solutions in fast-paced, dynamic environments
Excellent critical thinking, leadership, communication, and project management skills
Proven success achieving in-year revenue expectations
Willingness to travel for out-of-town client engagements
Hybrid work with two days in office
Must be eligible to work in the United States without sponsorship now or in the future
Preferred
Consulting firm/industry or start-up experience preferred
Benefits
Medical, dental, vision, and basic life insurance
401k plan
Employee stock ownership program
Annual bonuses
Unlimited flexible time off
Ten paid holidays throughout the calendar year
Ten weeks of paid parental leave
Company
West Monroe
West Monroe offers digital transformation, analytics, cloud, cyber security, business advisory, and management consulting services.
Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
unknownKey Investors
MSD Partners
2021-10-15Series Unknown
2020-01-07Acquired
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