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Fujitsu is a leading information and communication technology (ICT) company, headquartered in Japan, offering a full range of technology products, solutions, and services. Approximately 132,000 Fujitsu people support customers in more than one hundred countries. We use our experience and the power of technology to shape the future of society with our customers.

Wayfinders is Fujitsu’s business and technology management consulting firm built for the AI era. Wayfinders helps customers go from opportunity to outcome by defining strategy, implementing at scale, and maximizing return on investment. A core focus of our work is building trusted, governed, AI‑ready data foundations that enable advanced analytics, GenAI, and enterprise transformation.

Position Overview – Associate Partner, Data Advisory & Transformation

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 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.

Data Migration & Technical Competency

• Deep expertise in:
• Data migration strategy and execution

• Source-to-target mapping and transformation design
• Data reconciliation and validation
• Metadata management, data lineage, and catalogs
• 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
• AI-assisted mapping and transformation design

• Strong understanding of governance, privacy, and risk considerations for enterprise and AI-ready data.

Business & Leadership Competencies

• 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.

Compensation & Benefits

Fujitsu salaries are aligned to the specific geographic location in which the work is primarily performed. It is not typical for an individual to be hired at or near the top of the range for their role. Compensation decisions consider skills, qualifications, experience, and internal equity.

The pay range for this role is estimated to be between $210,000 and $270,000, with 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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