[Remote] Associate Partner, Data Advisory & Transformation (Wayfinders Consulting)
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Fujitsu Limited is a leading information and communication technology company committed to sustainability and innovation. They are seeking an Associate Partner in Data Advisory & Transformation to lead client relationships, drive account growth, and oversee enterprise data migration and governance initiatives.
Responsibilities
- Own senior executive relationships across business, data, and technology leadership (e.g., CDO, CIO, CTO, Heads of Data, Analytics, and Platforms)
- Serve as a trusted advisor on enterprise data migration, data quality, governance, and AI-enabled data transformation
- Translate business and technology strategy into multi-year data migration and modernization roadmaps with measurable outcomes
- Maintain accountability for overall client satisfaction, delivery outcomes, and long-term value realization
- Drive account growth through opportunity identification, deal shaping, and closing across data migration, data quality, and governance programs
- Lead and support proposal development, pricing strategy, and commercial negotiations
- Manage revenue, margin, and delivery health across multiple concurrent engagements
- Provide senior oversight across complex data migration and data foundation programs, including legacy-to-cloud and platform-to-platform transformations
- Validate migration and architecture approaches spanning:
- Migration strategy and phased cutover approaches
- Source-to-target mapping and transformation design
- ETL/ELT pipelines and orchestration
- Metadata, lineage, and catalog-driven migration
- Guide teams on AI-assisted data mapping and transformation, including:
- LLM/RAG-based discovery of source-system meaning and embedded business rules
- Automated migration acceleration through reusable patterns and AI enablement
- Ensure target-state platforms (e.g., Snowflake, Databricks) are scalable, secure, and production-ready
- Oversee implementation of data quality, reconciliation, and validation frameworks for large-scale migrations
- Guide teams on:
- Automated data quality rule generation
- Anomaly detection and reconciliation
- Metadata, lineage, and impact analysis
- Ensure adherence to data governance, privacy, security, and controls required for AI-ready enterprise data
- Act as a senior escalation point for complex migration, data quality, governance, or regulatory decisions
- Ensure delivery teams apply strong engineering discipline, DataOps practices, and lifecycle management
- Oversee integration of migrated data into downstream analytics, operational, and AI systems
- Ensure consistent delivery quality across Data Migration Architects, Engineers, Analysts, and Governance Leads
- Lead, mentor, and develop Engagement Managers, Managing Consultants, and senior data leaders, including:
- Data Migration Architects
- Data Migration Engineers
- Data Quality & Governance Leads
- Metadata and Data Lineage Architects
- Contribute to talent strategy, including role definition, hiring profiles, and capability development for data migration and AI-enabled data consulting
- Build repeatable delivery frameworks, accelerators, and IP
- Represent Wayfinders externally in executive, architectural, and technical forums
- Shape and communicate points of view on:
- Enterprise data migration and modernization
- Metadata- and lineage-driven transformation
- AI-assisted data quality and mapping
- Contribute to development of reusable migration accelerators, tooling patterns, and technical IP
Skills
- 8 + years of experience in consulting or equivalent senior industry leadership roles
- Proven ownership of large-scale data migration and data foundation programs, including platform modernization, cloud migrations, and governance initiatives
- Bachelor's degree required; advanced degree strongly preferred
- Deep expertise in data migration strategy and execution
- Deep expertise in source-to-target mapping and transformation design
- Deep expertise in data reconciliation and validation
- Deep expertise in metadata management, data lineage, and catalogs
- Deep expertise in data quality frameworks and controls
- Experience overseeing enterprise ETL/ELT pipelines using SQL, Python, and distributed processing frameworks
- Familiarity with AI-assisted approaches, including LLM/RAG-based discovery of source data meaning
- Familiarity with AI-assisted mapping and transformation design
- Strong understanding of governance, privacy, and risk considerations for enterprise and AI-ready data
- Executive-level communication and influencing skills
- Strong commercial acumen with revenue and margin accountability
- Proven people leadership and coaching at senior levels
- Ability to connect data migration and governance decisions to business outcomes and enterprise value
- Comfort operating in ambiguity while driving alignment and execution
Benefits
- Eligibility for a short‑term incentive based on company and individual performance
- Fujitsu offers a comprehensive benefits package including health benefits, 401(k), and wellness programs
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