Associate Partner, Data Advisory & Transformation (Wayfinders Consulting)
Fujitsu · United States
- Hybrid
- Full-time
- $270,000 / year
- United States
Job highlights
- Lead client data advisory and transformation engagements.
- Own client relationships and drive account growth.
- Oversee large-scale data migration and modernization.
- Develop and mentor senior data consulting leaders.
- Shape market strategy for data transformation.
About the role
About the Role
The Associate Partner, Data Advisory and Transformation is a senior leadership role at Fujitsu, focusing on driving enterprise data strategies for clients. This position involves owning client relationships, expanding accounts, and leading initiatives in data migration, data quality, and data governance. The role is crucial for ensuring that client engagements deliver tangible business value and establish robust, AI-ready data foundations at an enterprise scale. Associate Partners are key to account growth, ensuring delivery excellence across multiple projects, and developing future consulting leaders. They are expected to be market-facing, influencing Fujitsu's approach to 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, and 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, and 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, and 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, and 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, and 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 and 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 offers a competitive salary estimated between $210,000 and $270,000 annually, with eligibility for short-term incentives. A comprehensive benefits package includes health benefits, 401(k), and wellness programs. Fujitsu is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion.
Key Skills/Competency
- Data Migration
- Data Governance
- Data Quality
- Cloud Migration
- AI-Assisted Transformation
- ETL/ELT
- Metadata Management
- Client Relationship Management
- Consulting Leadership
- Account Growth
Skills & topics
- Associate Partner
- Data Advisory
- Data Transformation
- Data Migration
- Data Governance
- Data Quality
- Cloud Migration
- AI
- Consulting
- Leadership
- Fujitsu
- SQL
- Python
- Snowflake
- Databricks
- ETL
- ELT
- Metadata Management
- Data Lineage
- RAG
How to get hired
- Tailor your resume: Highlight 8+ years of consulting experience and expertise in data migration, governance, and AI.
- Showcase leadership: Emphasize your proven track record in client relationship management and account growth.
- Demonstrate technical depth: Detail your experience with ETL/ELT, cloud platforms, and AI-assisted data approaches.
- Prepare for executive discussions: Be ready to discuss business value, ROI, and strategic data initiatives.
- Research Fujitsu: Understand their approach to data transformation and AI readiness.
Technical preparation
Master data migration strategies and execution.,Proficient in ETL/ELT, SQL, and Python.,Understand AI-assisted data mapping and RAG.,Expertise in data governance and quality frameworks.
Behavioral questions
Describe a complex client data transformation you led.,How do you build and maintain executive relationships?,Share an example of driving account growth.,How do you mentor and develop senior consultants?
Frequently asked questions
- What is the typical career path for an Associate Partner at Fujitsu's Wayfinders Consulting?
- As an Associate Partner in Data Advisory & Transformation at Fujitsu, you are a senior leader. Career progression typically involves deepening client relationships, expanding account portfolio size and complexity, and potentially moving into more strategic roles within Fujitsu's consulting practice, such as a Partner or Practice Lead, focusing on driving business growth and thought leadership in data and AI.
- How does Fujitsu approach data migration and AI-readiness in their client projects?
- Fujitsu focuses on enterprise-scale data migration, aiming to build AI-ready data foundations. This involves strategies for legacy-to-cloud and platform-to-platform transformations, utilizing metadata, lineage, and AI-assisted tools for mapping and acceleration. Data quality, governance, and security are integral to ensuring data is fit for advanced analytics and AI applications.
- What level of executive interaction can I expect as an Associate Partner?
- This role involves direct engagement with senior executives, including Chief Data Officers (CDOs), CIOs, CTOs, and Heads of Data, Analytics, and Platforms. You will serve as a trusted advisor, translating business and technology strategies into actionable data roadmaps and driving measurable outcomes.
- What are the key technical skills required for the Associate Partner, Data Advisory & Transformation role?
- Key technical competencies include deep expertise in data migration strategy, source-to-target mapping, data quality frameworks, metadata management, and ETL/ELT processes using SQL and Python. Familiarity with AI-assisted data approaches (LLM/RAG) and cloud platforms like Snowflake and Databricks is also essential.
- Does Fujitsu support relocation or visa sponsorship for this Associate Partner role?
- According to the job description, relocation support is not provided, and visa sponsorship is not approved for this position.
- How is compensation determined for the Associate Partner role at Fujitsu?
- Compensation is aligned with the specific geographic location, and it's not typical to be hired at the top of the range. Fujitsu considers skills, qualifications, experience, and internal equity when making compensation decisions. The role also offers eligibility for short-term incentives.