Senior Manager, Data & AI

Putting people first, every day BDO is a firm built on a foundation of positive relationships with our people and our clients. Each day, our professionals provide exceptional service, helping clients with advice and insight they can trust. In turn, we offer an award-winning environment that fosters a people-first culture with a high priority on your personal and professional growth.

BDO Digital’s Vancouver office is looking for a Senior Manager to join our Data & AI Consulting Practice team and own the following responsibilities:
In partnership with Western Canada Partners, industry leaders, and the National Practice Lead, Data & AI, help grow BDO’s Data & AI consulting presence across Vancouver, British Columbia, and Western Canada. Act as a senior market-facing consulting leader who can support Partners in client meetings, build trust with CFOs, CIOs, and senior business stakeholders, and translate business challenges into practical Data & AI opportunities.

Lead business development activities for the Data & AI practice, including client discovery, solution positioning, proposal development, RFP responses, demos, proofs of concept, presentations, and sales support materials. Bring strong technical credibility to client conversations, with the ability to explain modern data platforms, analytics, AI enablement, governance, and delivery approaches in a way that is compelling, practical, and business-focused. Lead Data & AI strategy engagements, including current-state assessments, target-state architecture, operating model design, governance planning, business case development, and short- and long-term implementation roadmaps.

Architect and oversee the delivery of modern data platforms that bring data together from source systems, create trusted data models, enable reporting and analytics, and support AI assistants, AI agents, machine learning, and other advanced use cases. Guide clients through the design and implementation of scalable data pipelines, data models, semantic layers, governed self-service analytics, dashboards, and AI-ready data foundations.

Work with technologies and platforms such as Microsoft Fabric, Azure, Databricks, Snowflake, dbt, Power BI, Microsoft Purview, Azure Data Factory, Azure Synapse, Azure Machine Learning, SQL, and related modern Data & AI tools. Lead delivery teams through complex client engagements, ensuring project milestones, quality standards, scope, timelines, and client expectations are effectively managed. Provide hands‑on technical guidance to project teams when needed, including architecture reviews, solution design, data modelling, integration patterns, governance approaches, and complex delivery issue resolution.

Mentor, coach, and develop consultants and technical team members, while helping to build strong delivery standards, reusable assets, accelerators, and practice capabilities. Stay current with emerging Data & AI trends, including modern data platforms, lakehouse architecture, data governance, generative AI, AI agents, analytics engineering, and responsible AI practices, and bring those insights into client and practice conversations.

You demonstrate BDO’s core values through all aspects of your work:
Integrity, Respect, and Collaboration. You are viewed by Partners as a trusted Data & AI leader who can be brought into strategic client conversations and quickly build confidence with senior client stakeholders. Clients describe you as credible, consultative, practical, and able to connect technical possibilities with business outcomes. You contribute to the growth of the Western Canada Data & AI practice through business development, proposal/RFP support, client relationship…