Senior Data Technology Consultant

Challenge yourself, change lives and help shape the UK’s digital revolution. We look to our Business Consultants to drive change, inspire trust with clients, and take responsibility for some of the world’s most ambitious transformation projects. As a Senior Data Technology Consultant within our successful Business Consulting practice, you, alongside a collaborative team of consulting colleagues, will take a central role in providing support to our clients with a focus on driving their business outcomes using data and technology. You will also support the growth of the wider evolving business consulting function.

A key focus of the role will be to deliver practical advice to clients relating to their enterprise data technologies and strategies whilst looking out for opportunities to support them further leveraging our wider skillsets, propositions, and IP. You will work across the Business Consulting and Technology Advisory Practice to generate pull through of CGI services at scale across the UK. This is a Senior Consultant role and the successful candidate will be responsible for working with others to shape, manage and deliver consultative engagements with clients. You will form part of a revenue-generating team.

Your future duties and responsibilities:

• Lead and deliver large-scale strategic data technology projects, helping clients navigate complex data transformations.
• Provide high-quality consulting services to clients, presenting technical concepts in simple, accessible language.
• Leverage your deep understanding of legacy and cloud-based data technologies, including Data Lake, Data Warehouse, and Lakehouse concepts.
• Bring broad technical knowledge of Azure data products, with subject matter expertise in areas like Azure Data Factory, Microsoft Fabric, and others. Ideally, hold relevant Azure data tooling certifications.
• Drive efficiencies across the data lifecycle, advising on critical data handling considerations from a technology perspective.
• Support the growth and development of our business consulting team, contributing to the team’s ability to deliver cutting-edge solutions.
• Build strong relationships with stakeholders, both within large-scale organisations and on the consultancy side, helping clients achieve their strategic objectives.
• Utilise your experience with data modelling to guide clients in optimising their data architectures and improving data flow across systems.

Required qualifications to be successful in this role:

• Advising on architecture solutions and design.
• Experience of owning Data solutions on hyperscalers Azure as a minimum but AWS or GCP also desirable.
• Owning parts of high-quality client deliverables or solutions.
• Leading client meetings, interviews and/or workshops.
• Supporting complex transformation projects.
• Experience in taking ownership of Solution Architecture.
• Data and AI Strategic Roadmaps.
• Data Cataloguing.
• Data and AI Governance.
• Data Workflow Optimisation.
• Defining and Building Business Insight Solutions.

Please note that if you are NOT a passport holder of the country for the vacancy you might need a work permit.