Data & AI Analyst
Role Overview
The Data & AI practice role combines business analysis and data product management to shape and deliver client use cases across analytics, AI and modern data platforms.
The analyst helps define data-driven products and solutions that are client-centric and deliver measurable outcomes.
Key Skills for This Role
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Role overview
The Data & AI practice role combines business analysis and data product management to shape and deliver client use cases across analytics, AI and modern data platforms.
The analyst helps define data-driven products and solutions that are client-centric and deliver measurable outcomes.
What you’ll do
- Partner with clients to translate business problems, opportunities and priorities into data, analytics and AI use cases.
- Define scope, success measures, roadmaps and requirements for data-driven solutions.
- Assess source systems, APIs and data feeds for quality, structure and analytics or AI suitability.
- Design analytics data models, including dimensional models and star schemas.
- Create source-to-target mappings, business rules and transformation logic for delivery.
- Work with data engineers, architects and AI specialists to support implementation.
- Bridge business and technology stakeholders as a trusted advisor.
- Evolve data products using feedback and changing business needs.
Skills and experience
- Experience as a Data Analyst, Business Analyst or Analytics Consultant in data, analytics or AI programmes.
- Strong business analysis skills covering requirements, stakeholder engagement and use-case development.
- Experience with source systems, APIs and data integrations; understanding of operational data for analytics.
- Knowledge of dimensional modelling and star schemas, plus hands-on source-to-target mapping.
- Understanding of modern data platforms and analytics architectures, ideally Microsoft or cloud ecosystems.
- Ability to communicate complex data concepts to non-technical audiences.
- Python, SQL, Power BI, Databricks and Microsoft Fabric experience is advantageous.
About you
- Curious and analytical, client-centric, collaborative and focused on outcomes and measurable impact.
- Comfortable with ambiguity, evolving requirements and complex stakeholder groups.
- Able to engage senior business stakeholders and technology teams, balance rigour with pace, and keep learning about data and AI.
Career and development
- Avanade offers at least 80 hours per year for learning, certifications and professional development.
- The role provides access to global Data & AI communities, accelerators and subject-matter experts.
- Career progression is supported across Consultant and Senior Consultant levels.
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