Analytics/AI Due Diligence (CTO Advisory)
At West Monroe, our people are our business.
We pride ourselves on bringing a different mindset to consulting—and that takes a different approach: highly collaborative, flexible, and tenacious.
Our people-first, highly collaborative culture is core to our identity. It’s something we care about, and something we strive to enrich and preserve. No hierarchies. No siloes. No egos. Just smart ideas, and the drive to make an impact for our clients.
Every day our clients rely on us to help them tackle their greatest challenges, by strategically deploying technology through a business-focused and industry-specific lens. We bring together both the right knowledge and the right approach, so that they can capitalize on opportunities and deliver real results. That takes the right team. And that’s where you come in.
Ready for the next step on your career journey?
West Monroe Partners is looking for an experienced Enterprise Analytics Architect to join our Technology practice and work closely with our Mergers and Acquisitions practice (M&A). This is an exciting opportunity to work within our Technology practice on project work including M&A due diligences, strategic enterprise architecture, architecture of post-merger integrations, and high-level plans for carve-outs.
What will you be doing?
- Assess the underlying technical environment and products within an organization, with a focus on data and analytics assets, to identify risks and opportunities for improvement.
- Make recommendations on how to achieve long-term scalability, reduce operational cost, or better support business processes. Convey these findings and recommendations to a group of executives, and field questions related to the assessment.
- Evaluate IT and technical development processes for best practices and levels of maturity
- Identify key process issues and risks in the context of an investment thesis while evaluating potential investments for our Private Equity clients
- Formulate projects and strategies to support the client’s investment thesis, key risk mitigation, and long-term technology-based initiatives in the form of risk mitigation and post-close projects.
- Demonstrate expertise in designing technology solutions through system integration and application development
Qualifications:
- 7-15 years of software architecture with experience in migrations, re-factoring and greenfield development projects
- Experience applying modern software design concepts such as separation of concerns, microservices, service oriented architectures, test-driven development, model-driven development, etc.
- Working knowledge and experience with complex business systems integration, custom data predictive modeling and architecture
- Strong data experience with two or more of the following:
- Data mapping, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Data Science, Python, R, SQL, Analytics, etc.
- Experience applying Agile/lean methodologies
- Experience architecting solutions using database technologies such as relational, NoSQL, transactional and/or data warehouses.
- Demonstrated experience leading technical engagements including proposal development, estimation, and day-to-day project management experience (time tracking, budgeting, status reporting, etc.
- Familiarity or awareness of application security and secure coding principles
- Experience working within a dynamic, collaborative, and team-based environment
- Desire to lead and mentor other team members or developers while leading projects
- Experience predicting and modeling future state for large data sets is a plus
- BS / Computer Science, MIS or equivalent preferred
- Excellent leadership, organizational, verbal and written communication skills
Ready to get started? Join our team and make an impact.