Value Architect

9033 AVANADE INDIA PVT LIMITED Company; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 2,400,000 - 4,600,000; Full time

Job summary

Avanade India Pvt Limited is seeking a senior Value Architect to shape business cases for AI-driven transformations. You will partner with client executives, architects, and delivery teams to quantify value, build baselines, and ensure outcomes are measurable across engagements.

The role requires strategic thinking, commercial acumen, and a track record in benefits realisation. You will help standardise value methodology and contribute to a library of verified outcomes across APAC.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in strategy consulting or value engineering.
• Strong financial modelling and scenario analysis.
• Understanding of AI value drivers and benchmarking.
• Ability to present to senior clients under pressure.
• Experience with benefits realisation and value cases.
• Clear written and verbal reasoning.

Responsibilities

• Partner with clients and leads to identify opportunities, quantify value and prioritise initiatives.
• Build value hypotheses and baselines for outcomes.
• Analyse value pools and feasibility to maximize AI impact.
• Sequence initiatives by value and present prioritisation to clients.
• Support executive decision-making with structured financial analysis.
• Track realised benefits and report at every gate.
• Contribute to APAC value library with verified outcomes.
• Collaborate with delivery teams to ensure value is translated into outcomes.

Skills

Strategy consulting

Value engineering

Financial modelling

AI value drivers

Stakeholder management

Business case development

Job description

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.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Partner with clients, Industry Reinvention Leads, Domain Architects, Trust Architects and Forward Deployed Engineers to identify opportunities, quantify value potential and prioritise initiatives.
• Build the value hypothesis and business case during shaping, and set the baseline the outcome will be measured against.
• Analyse value pools, strategic priorities, operational constraints and implementation feasibility to determine where AI creates the greatest impact.
• Sequence initiatives and use cases by value and feasibility, and make the prioritisation case to the client.
• Support executive decision-making with structured analysis of opportunity size, expected outcomes, investment required, delivery risk and return profile.
• Track realised against projected benefit through delivery, and report it transparently at every gate.
• Hold the go / stop line — recommend stopping, re-scoping or re-prioritising work where the expected value is no longer achievable.
• Support outcome-based, value-based and gain-share commercial models with the numbers that make them defensible.
• Translate AI capability into a business narrative that CFOs, COOs and Boards recognise.
• Contribute verified outcomes and benchmark data to the APAC value library.
• Work alongside FDEs and Trust Architects throughout, rather than appearing at reporting points.

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.

SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

• 5+ years in strategy consulting, business transformation, value engineering or a strong finance background.
• Solid financial modelling capability and comfort working with incomplete data.
• Understanding of AI value drivers, and enough technical fluency to challenge an engineering estimate sensibly.
• Able to hold a position with senior client stakeholders under pressure.
• Experience with benefits realisation on programmes where the benefit was actually measured afterwards.
• Clear written and verbal reasoning — the case has to survive being read without its author present.

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