Data Platform & Analytics Capability Lead

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Canada.

📋 Description

• Implement the capability strategy by setting priorities, forming partnerships, and enforcing execution discipline to achieve scalability.

• Develop a network of internal collaborators and utilize feedback from sellers, clients, and delivery teams to enhance the capability.

• Lead the qualification of opportunities by converting client requirements into service configurations, scopes, delivery methods, and commercial proposals.

• Collaborate with technical architects to confirm architecture, estimates, assumptions, and feasibility.

• Engage with senior client stakeholders to comprehend business priorities and transform data challenges into actionable solutions and roadmaps.

• Simplify complex technical concepts into understandable business language for executives, sellers, architects, and engineering teams.

• Ensure seamless continuity from opportunity development through delivery, aligning client expectations with contractual obligations and capability standards.

• Create, position, sell, and expand a new enterprise data and analytics capability.

• Adapt the service to meet market demands, ensuring ongoing relevance, scalability, and commercial viability.

⛳️ Requirements

• Proven experience in consulting, technical architecture, or capability development in enterprise data, analytics, cloud, or related technology services.

• Excellent client advisory abilities and a talent for linking technical investments to business results.

• Background in business development, pre-sales, opportunity qualification, solution design, or proposal creation.

• Comprehensive understanding of enterprise data architecture, engineering, analytics, governance, and cloud platforms.

• Familiarity with Microsoft Azure, Microsoft Fabric, and Databricks.

• Capability to discuss solution alternatives, trade-offs, delivery implications, and effort drivers with clients and technical teams.

• Strong skills in executive communication, facilitation, and stakeholder management.

• Proficiency in navigating uncertainty, taking initiative, and transforming emerging ideas and client needs into sustainable business opportunities.

🏝️ Benefits

• Employee benefits; see Canada Employee Benefits | Avanade.

• Compensation and benefits for full-time employment.