Senior Consultant- Data/AI Due Diligence-MTS

West Monroe; Chicago (IL); Hybrid; USD 118,000 - 139,000; Full time

Job summary

West Monroe is seeking a Senior Consultant, Data/AI Due Diligence to join our Technology & Experience Practice. You will lead strategic enterprise projects across data engineering, analytics, and post-merger integrations for private equity clients.

Partner with advisory teams in Cloud, Cyber, Software Engineering, andBI to deliver assessment solutions. Expect travel up to 30–50% and a hybrid in-office schedule.

Qualifications

• Master’s or Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or equivalent.
• 2–5+ years hands-on data modeling and data design experience with implemented solutions.
• Consulting/industry or startup experience preferred.
• Experience accessing and extracting data from diverse sources and platforms.
• Experience migrating data across systems and cloud environments (AWS/Azure/GCP).
• Strong data warehousing and BI knowledge; PoV and cloud-native product recommendations.
• Proven ability to manage proposals, estimates, and day-to-day project management.
• Urgency, leadership, and clear communication; travel up to 30–50%; hybrid work 2x/week.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams on holistic tech due diligence for M&A.
• Assess technology landscapes and recommend governance, cost and scalability improvements.
• Develop strategic investment summaries and data-driven tech strategies.
• Link business and data strategy to deliver measurable outcomes.
• Present results to executives; author POVs; contribute to white papers.
• Mentor data engineers, architects, and BI analysts; represent data team externally.
• Stay current with cloud, data platforms, databases, and BI tools.
• Identify growth opportunities and drive new business with existing clients.

Skills

Data engineering

Data analytics

Data modeling

Data design

PowerBI

Tableau

Looker

Databricks

Snowflake

Kafka

Kinesis

Airflow

ETL/ELT

SQL/NoSQL databases

Education

Master’s/Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or Information Systems

Tools

Databricks

Snowflake

PowerBI

Tableau

Looker

AWS

Azure

GCP

SQL

NoSQL

Job description

Are you ready to make an impact?

West Monroe is looking for a Senior Consultant_, Data/AI Due Diligence_ to join our Technology & Experience Practice; M&A Transaction Services–Data Engineering & Analytics and deliver on technology M&A due diligence projects. The Advisory Architect will partner with other M&A Transaction Services advisors/architects (Cloud, Cyber, Software Engineering, infrastructure) and executive client stakeholders to provide assessment solutions and tech advisory across a variety of industries, including Private Equity, High-Tech & Software, Healthcare, and Financial Services. As a technology agnostic firm, they will also have the chance to continuously expand their skillset while working with cutting edge tools, platforms, and frameworks. This is an exciting opportunity to work within our newly formalized (but long existing) technology M&A offering and lead strategic enterprise projects, advanced analytics due diligences, post-merger integrations, and carve-out advisory engagements.

Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with cross functional teams, Transaction Services’ consultants from other competencies (i.e., Software Engineering, Cloud & Infrastructure, Cybersecurity, Data & Analytics) in support of holistic, tech due diligence assessments for client M&A activity and identify growth and remediation opportunities through analysis of existing data and analytics systems, business processes and data monetization opportunities.
• Assess underlying technology/libraries/tooling landscape within enterprise organizations to make recommendations to strategic investors on improving market readiness, achieving long-term scalability, and/or reducing operational cost
• Formulate strategic investment summaries, key risk mitigation analyses, and long‑term technology‑based strategy for both pre-close and post-close projects
• Establish the linkage between business strategy and data strategy (and vice versa) to deliver impactful outcomes
• Executive presence with the ability to present, interpret, and recommend results of work including the development of new concepts, major advances in the field, new major applications, and progress on all product programs.
• Be a thought leader, create white papers and represent the organization at various industry conferences and events
• Provide leadership and mentoring to data engineers/architects/BI analysts and practitioners
• Be the visible face of the data engineering team to internal partners, external customers and prospects, and the data architect community at large
• Be a Subject Matter Expert (SME) for the data platform engineering (ingestion through insights), data strategy, data modeling initiatives across the department’s big data projects.
• Keep pulse of the latest development trends in cloud (AWS, GCP, Azure, etc), data platforms (Databricks, Snowflake etc), databases (RDBMS, SQL, NoSQL, Oracle, etc.), reporting (PowerBI, Quicksight, etc.), ETL/ELT, data warehousing, data hubs, data lakes, data marts etc. and various tools, products, and use cases.
• Expertise in data warehousing approaches (Kimball, Inmon), normalized and de‑normalized data models including dimensional schemas (star, snowflake)
• Strong understanding of streaming (e.g. Kafka, Kinesis), batch& workflow (e.g. Airflow, AWS Glue, CTTRL-M) data transport technologies
• Experience with Data Visualization tools including PowerBI, Tableau, Looker, etc
• Drive new business with existing clients by identifying unique opportunities and liaising to appropriate client leads, account managers, or business developers

Qualifications:

• Master’s/Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or equivalent relevant work experience
• Minimum 2-5+ years of hands‑on professional development experience in data modeling and data design and must have hands on experience implementing solutions
• Consulting firm/industry or start‑up experience preferred
• Experience with the technical programming to access and extract data from diverse sources residing on multiple platforms and implement large, sophisticated data models by combining, synthesizing, and structuring data
• Experience performing complex data migration to and from disparate data systems/platforms as well as to/from the cloud (AWS, Azure, GCP, etc.)
• Good knowledge of standard concepts, best practices, and procedures within a data warehousing and Business Intelligence (BI) environment
• Provide Points of View (POV) and recommendations for cloud‑native, industry‑leading products along with emerging, start‑up offerings
• including proposal development, estimation, and day‑to‑day project management (time tracking, budgeting, status reporting, etc.)
• Strong sense of urgency with comfortability delivering solutions in fast‑paced, dynamic environments
• Excellent critical thinking, leadership, communication, and project management skills
• Willingness to travel for out‑of‑town client engagements (up to 30‑50% travel)
• Hybrid role, 2X per week in office
• Proven success achievingin-yearrevenue expectations
• A commitment to inclusion and diversity, and openness to new ideas and perspectives
• Must be eligible to work in the US with out sponsorship now or in the future

Based on pay transparency guidelines, the salaryrange for this role canvary based on your proximity to one of our West Monroe offices (seetable below). Information on our competitive total rewards package,including our bonus structure and benefits is here. Individual salaries are determined by evaluating a variety of factors including geography,experience, skills, education, and internal equity.

Employees (and their families) are covered by medical, dental, vision, and basic life insurance. Employeesare able to enrol in our company’s 401k plan,purchase shares from our employee stock ownership program and be eligible to receive annual bonuses. Employees will also receive unlimited flexible time offand ten paid holidays throughout the calendar year. Eligibility for ten weeks of paid parental leave will also be available upon hire date.

Seattle or Washington, D.C.

$124,100—$146,000 USD

Los Angeles

$130,000—$152,900 USD

New York City or San Francisco

$135,900—$159,900 USD

A location not listed above

$118,200—$139,000 USD

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