Value Architect (Ai Strategy & Value Realisation)

Avanade; Sydney; Hybrid; AUD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Avanade in Sydney, Australia, seeks a Value Architect to lead AI strategy and value realisation across client engagements. You will partner with executives, industry leads and delivery teams to build credible value cases and measure outcomes that fund transformations.

The role combines strategic thinking, commercial acumen and benefits realisation to ensure value is grounded in measurable business impact. Flexible across major Australian cities.

Qualifications

• The Value Architect role blends strategic thinking, commercial acumen and benefits realisation to ground AI investments in measurable outcomes.
• You will define the value methodology and ROI standards that underpin Avanade Next's outcome-based commercial model.

Responsibilities

• Partner with clients and Avanade Next teams to identify, quantify and prioritise opportunities.
• Assess value pools, strategic priorities, operational constraints and feasibility.
• Sequence use cases by value and feasibility.
• Build value hypotheses, business cases and baselines during shaping.
• Translate AI capability into a narrative CFOs, COOs and Boards recognise.
• Set the measurement model before delivery starts.
• Track realised versus projected benefit through delivery.
• Report benefit variance transparently at each gate.
• Recommend stopping, re-scoping or re-prioritising work where value is no longer achievable.
• Work alongside FDEs and Trust Architects throughout delivery.
• Contribute verified outcomes and benchmark data to the APAC value library.
• Support outcome-based and value-based commercial models with defensible numbers.

Skills

Value realisation

ROI analysis

Strategic planning

Stakeholder management

Job description

Value Architect (AI Strategy & Value Realisation) Avanade•Sydney, Australia

SUMMARY

Value Architects determine where AI creates meaningful business impact, which opportunities should be pursued, and how success will be measured. They work alongside client executives, Industry Reinvention Leads, Domain Architects and delivery teams to build the value case that funds a transformation.

The role combines strategic thinking, commercial acumen and benefits realisation expertise to ensure every transformation initiative is grounded in a credible value case and linked to measurable business outcomes. Beyond individual engagements, the role defines the value methodology, benchmark library and ROI verification standards that underpin Avanade Next's outcome-based commercial model. The person appointed will build a capability that helps clients make better investment decisions before delivery begins and provides objective evidence of value after deployment.

Location

Flexible across Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, and Perth.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

Opportunity & Value Definition

Partner with clients and Avanade Next teams to identify, quantify and prioritise opportunities.

Assess value pools, strategic priorities, operational constraints and feasibility.

Sequence use cases by value and feasibility.

Business Case & Baseline

Build value hypotheses, business cases and baselines during shaping.

Translate AI capability into a narrative CFOs, COOs and Boards recognise.

Set the measurement model before delivery starts.

Track realised versus projected benefit through delivery.

Report benefit variance transparently at each gate.

Recommend stopping, re-scoping or re-prioritising work where value is no longer achievable.

Work alongside FDEs and Trust Architects throughout delivery.

Contribute verified outcomes and benchmark data to the APAC value library.

Support outcome-based and value-based commercial models with defensible numbers.

KEY MEASURES

Business case established and baselined on every engagement.

Benefits tracking active across 100% of production deployments, reported at each gate.

Post-deployment validation of business case assumptions, with variance explained.

Contribution to the APAC value benchmark library each quarter using verified outcomes.

Client acceptance of the value case at hard commitment gates.

Executive stakeholders able to make investment decisions with clearly quantified value, risk and implementation assumptions.

Remote