Senior Manager / Director - Analytics and AI

Job Requisition ID: 33075

• Work on cutting edge Analytics & AI technologies in real world environments
• Make an impact that matters working with clients across Australia and APAC
• World-class learning, development and leadership programs throughout your career  

Do you want to work on the front-line of Analytics & AI? If you love working in high performing and diverse teams to solve complex business problems using Analytics & AI, we need you!

About us

Our diverse Data & AI team comprises over 650 specialist practitioners across Australia, each of whom are constantly curious and excited about combining their business acumen and technology expertise to create data and AI solutions that help solve complex problems and transform, and reinvent our client’s business models.

Our Data & AI team partner with public and private sector clients to design and implement world leading solutions and capabilities. From solving air and ground transport network issues with our industry-first Optimal Reality digital twin platform (www.optimalreality.com), to bringing automation capabilities to vaccine rollout programs, to supporting our clients in creating a more sustainable world and implement ESG leading practice, we are the partner of choice.

Our expertise with market leading technologies such as AWS, Microsoft, Google, Snowflake, Databricks, Informatica, Collibra and Salesforce enable our practitioners to be at the forefront of new and emerging capabilities and to deliver our suite of services at scale. We are consistently recognised as leaders in Cloud, Data, Analytics and AI in the latest analyst reports.

About the job

Our Data & AI practice brings the full suite of services that focus on applying intelligence across the entire data, analytics, automation, and AI value chain. This means bringing together expertise across business analysis, data engineering, data management, AI/ML data science, data architecture and data visualisation. 

As a Senior Manager or Director in our team, focussing on Advanced Modelling and ML, you will work closely with your project team and clients to deeply understand their business challenges and oversee the delivery of next generation solutions using leading data and analytics tools.

You will be mentoring, coaching, growing and inspiring your team members to follow leading practices and demonstrate delivery excellence. You will work closely with our practice and alliance leads to develop and grow our practice through a relentless focus on building relationships with our clients, truly understanding their needs, and exceeding delivery expectations.

Your career coach will work with you and support you to create a tailored plan that aligns with your career ambitions and our practice needs, including providing you access to training, certification programs and development opportunities. You will continuously be supported by senior leaders across the practice on projects and throughout your career growth at Deloitte.

You will enhance your delivery skills through project leadership roles, building deep, impactful relationships with our clients, and ensuring we work effectively to support managing the delivery of exceptional outcomes from the solution design through to the delivery of technical. You will be challenged to guide or design solutions for real problems that span a range of industries, including; Transport, Energy & Resources, Public Sector, Life Sciences & Healthcare, and FSI. You will lead and inspire a team that leverages a variety of analytics techniques (e.g., data engineering, machine learning), programming languages (e.g., Python, SQL) and open-source technology (e.g., GraphQL, Julia etc.) to develop meaningful solutions to our client’s challenges

Enough about us, let’s talk about you

• At least 7 years’ experience operating in advanced data and analytics environments , including team leadership and client relationship management roles
• A proven track record of managing and communicating with a diverse range of stakeholders
• Experience connecting delivery outputs to meaningful business impact from scoping through deployment
• Experience leading and developing high- performing and multi-disciplinary teams
• Experience leading teams with data engineering, feature engineering and/or model development using advanced modelling techniques (e.g., AI/ML)
• Experience leading teams responsible for deploying advanced modelling solutions into production environments.

As a Senior Manager or Director, you will typically be responsible for leading Delivery on a large client project. You will develop a range of skills from interviewing client stakeholders, capturing business problem statements, leading client workshops, designing, building and implementing advanced analytics solutions, and clearly communicating results to clients in a clear, structured and impactful way. In addition, you will also support and have responsibility for managing and nurturing client relationships, ensuring we are connected a responsive to client needs and continue to deliver to expectations

Why Deloitte

At Deloitte, we believe that work–life harmony is important for our employee wellness and wellbeing, enabling us to deliver the best experiences for our clients and our teams. Founded on the concepts of trust, balance, wellbeing and the importance of personal connection, DX empowers our people to make choices about where they work based on their client, team and individual needs and how they connect with their clients and each other. Our market-leading flexible work policy, DeloitteFlex, includes 12 flexible working options that not only allow our people to shape their working day, but also provides a wide range of leave choices including a paid annual wellbeing day, flexible leave timing, opportunities to observe cultural and religious days that matter to our people, taking time out to make an impact to the community, and many more! Please find more information about DX here: https://www2.deloitte.com/au/en/pages/careers/articles/deloitte-flex.html

Deloitte also offers a comprehensive parental leave package, including a return-to-work program, that leads the way in creating a shared, flexible and family-friendly solution for its people in raising their children. Deloitte offers 18 weeks paid leave to all new parents, regardless of gender, and that leave can be taken over three years, broken up in a range of different ways to suit each family’s unique needs. We want our people to pursue and develop their careers with flexibility and purpose. We encourage our people to take an active role in caring responsibilities for their families while minimising the financial impact of having a break for parental leave.

Next steps

Sound like the place for you? Apply now.

By applying for this job, you’ll be assessed against the Deloitte Talent Standards. We’ve designed these standards so that you can grow in your career, and we can provide our clients with a consistent and exceptional Deloitte employee experience globally. The preferred candidate will be subject to background screening by Deloitte or by their external third-party provider.