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About the Role
This role will work as part of an engagement team to deliver data and artificial intelligence work for clients, spanning both advisory tasks — strategy, governance, use case assessment — and hands-on technical delivery of data platforms, analytics and AI solutions.
This is a delivery role with the key responsibilities outlined below:
Data Strategy and Governance
Conduct current-state analysis of data environments, including data landscape mapping, quality assessment and stakeholder interviews.
Support data maturity assessments by gathering evidence, applying assessment criteria and drafting findings.
Contribute to the development of data strategies, roadmaps and business cases, drafting sections
Support the design of data governance frameworks — drafting policies, standards, role definitions and stewardship models.
Research privacy, sovereignty and regulatory considerations relevant to the engagement and raise matters requiring specialist input.
AI Advisory and Governance
Support use case identification and qualification — gathering requirements, assessing data readiness and testing technical feasibility.
Contribute to AI readiness assessments and adoption roadmaps.
Draft components of AI governance frameworks covering model risk, human oversight, transparency, monitoring and acceptable use.
Research emerging AI standards, tooling and approaches, and share findings with the team.
Raise concerns where a proposed use case appears technically infeasible or carries risk the client hasn't considered.
Data Platform and Architecture
Build and optimise data pipelines, transformation logic and data quality controls.
Contribute to data architecture and data modelling work
Support platform and tooling evaluations by testing options, documenting findings and producing comparison analysis.
Apply the firm's reference architectures and standards, and contribute improvements based on what works in practice.
AI and Analytics Solution Development
Build proofs of concept and prototypes that demonstrate use case viability.
Develop analytics and reporting solutions, and AI solutions including generative AI and retrieval-augmented approaches.
Test and evaluate AI solutions for accuracy, cost, latency and failure modes, and document the results.
Work alongside client teams and system integrators during delivery, explaining technical decisions clearly.
About You
Our ideal candidate has prior experience in technology or digital consulting. You'll have a deep understanding of data architecture as well as AI strategy and governance.
Combined with:
Tertiary qualification in information technology, business, engineering, commerce or a related discipline.
Demonstrated experience with data strategies, pipelines, architecture and modelling work
Track record of leading workstreams and supervising junior team members.
Experience working across multiple industries or the demonstrated ability to move between unfamiliar sectors quickly.
Working knowledge of enterprise technology landscapes — ERP, HCM, CRM, integration platforms, cloud and data platforms.
Ability to design technical assessments to evaluate AI, analyse results and provide meaningful recommendations to clients.
Why BDO?
Working for BDO you will be part of a growing and market leading professional services firm.
Our national and global footprint provides our people with opportunities to work on interesting client engagements, across diverse industry sectors and services.
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