Associate Partner, Data Advisory & Transformation (Wayfinders Consulting)

The Wayfinders Associate Partner – Data Advisory and Transformation is a senior leader responsible for owning client relationships, growing accounts, and shaping the enterprise data migration, data quality, and data governance agenda for a portfolio of clients.

This role operates at the intersection of data strategy, large‑scale data migration, platform modernization, and commercial leadership, ensuring Wayfinders’ engagements deliver sustainable business value and AI-ready data foundations at enterprise scale.

Associate Partners are accountable for account growth, delivery excellence across multiple engagements, and the development of high‑performing consulting leaders. They are expected to be visible, market-facing leaders who help define Wayfinders’ point of view on data migration, metadata-driven transformation, and AI-assisted modernization.

Key Responsibilities

Client Relationship & Account Ownership
  • 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.
Commercial Leadership & Growth
  • 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.
Data Migration, Quality & Architecture Oversight
  • 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.
Data Quality, Governance & Controls
  • 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.
Delivery & Quality Governance
  • 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.
People & Practice Leadership
  • 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.
Market & Thought Leadership
  • 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.
Required Skills & Experience Experience & Education
  • 8 + years of experience in consulting or equival
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