Senior Data Consultant

Location(s): UK, Europe & Africa : UK : London. BAE Systems Digital Intelligence is home to 4,500 digital, cyber and intelligence experts. We work collaboratively across 10 countries to collect, connect and understand complex data, so that governments, nation states, armed forces and commercial businesses can unlock digital advantage in the most demanding environments.

Job Description

The role holder:

• Defines and delivers a client’s information management and exploitation strategy to transform the way an organisation derives value from its data assets, whilst securing and managing them appropriately.
• The Data Consultant has expertise in data exploitation, data solutions, data management, problem solving and business consulting and analysis.
• This puts them in a position to advise client organisations on data-driven transformation.
• The Data Consultant focuses on the people, process, business change, requirements and planning aspects of data challenges, but will have a good high-level understanding of approaches, techniques and tools in data architecture, data solution delivery and data science.

Core Duties

• Understands and distils business challenges in complex environments, providing thought leadership.
• Develops and actions data strategies and roadmaps, for example through undertaking maturity assessments and user needs analysis to define a vision and articulate the steps to achieving it.
• Considers business and cultural change aspects alongside technical data challenges.
• Defines and supports the implementation of an organisation’s data governance framework.
• Defines the operating model required to support an organisation’s data vision.
• Develops relationships with senior client stakeholders and represents their interests.
• Translates business goals into actionable plans.
• Communicates complex data challenges and strategies to senior client stakeholders and delivery teams.
• Takes responsibility for understanding client requirements and user needs, delivering analysis and problem resolution.
• Identifies, evaluates and recommends options.
• Manages the investigation of corporate data requirements.
• Coordinates the application of data analysis and data modelling techniques, based upon a detailed understanding of corporate information requirements, in order to establish, modify or maintain data structures and their associated components.
• Seeks to fully address client needs, enhancing the capabilities and effectiveness of solutions by ensuring that they are properly understood and appropriately exploited.
• Provides well-informed advice, typically on more than one topic, taking steps to ensure that it is properly understood and appropriately exploited.
• Works under the supervision of and provides support to seniors in the analysis and documentation of strategic data options and direction.
• Drafts and maintains policies, standards and procedures for information and/or data governance.
• Reviews information and data systems for compliance against organisational policies, legislation and risk. Makes recommendations for implementing any required changes.
• Applies in-depth knowledge of a broad range of industry-wide modelling techniques. Advises on the choice of techniques and approach influencing customers accordingly.

How We Will Support You

• Work-life balance is important; you can work around core hours with flexible and part-time working.
• As many of our customers work predominantly in the office, we expect all of our staff to work at least 3 days per week in the office.
• You’ll get 25 days holiday a year and the option to buy/sell and carry over from the year before.
• Our flexible benefits package includes private medical and dental insurance, a competitive pension scheme, cycle to work scheme, taste cards and more.
• You’ll have a dedicated Career Manager to help you develop your career and guide you on your journey through BAE.
• You’ll be part of our company bonus scheme.
• You are welcome to join any/all of our Diversity and Support groups.

Security Clearance is required for this vacancy. If you are not currently Security Cleared, you will need to be eligible for this and willing to go through the process.

About Our Team

Our people are what differentiates us; they are resourceful, innovative and dedicated. We have a mix of generalists and specialists and recognise that this diversity contributes to our success. We recognise the benefits of forming teams from a mix of disciplines, which allows us to come up with cutting-edge, high-quality solutions.

You’ll be part of a big company, but we try to create a culture that feels like a small one. The work will stretch you and be challenging, but we encourage a healthy work-life balance. Most of all, we know teams who work well together also perform well.

You will be joining our National Security business which is the largest area within our UK business. Our mission is to be the most trusted partner for our National Security clients in delivery of their core mission.

More about BAE Systems

You will work for a division of BAE Systems who helps nations, governments and businesses around the world defend themselves against cyber crime, reduce their risk in the connected world, comply with regulation, and transform their operations.

We’re passionate about Diversity and Inclusion in our workforce and the people you’ll work with will reflect this.

Life at BAE Systems Digital Intelligence

We are embracing Hybrid Working. This means you and your colleagues may be working in different locations, such as from home, another BAE Systems office or client site, some or all of the time, and work might be going on at different times of the day.

Diversity and inclusion are integral to the success of BAE Systems Digital Intelligence. We are proud to have an organisational culture where employees with varying perspectives, skills, life experiences and backgrounds can work together to achieve excellence and realise individual and organisational potential.