Value Architect

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 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.

Benefit Tracking & Governance

• 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.

Collaboration & Contribution

• 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.

Qualifications 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.