Consultant/Senior Consultant - Data Product Owner in Manchester

At Capgemini Invent, we believe difference drives change. As inventive transformation consultants, we blend our strategic, creative and scientific capabilities, collaborating closely with clients to deliver cutting-edge solutions. Join us to drive transformation tailored to our clients’ challenges of today and tomorrow. Informed and validated by science and data. Superpowered by creativity and design. All underpinned by technology created with purpose.

Join our fast-growing & collaborative Data-Driven Finance, Risk & Compliance (DFRC) team and shape the future of risk and finance! We harness cutting-edge technology, AI-powered models, and cloud-first data platforms to transform risk management from a reactive function into a strategic powerhouse - driving growth, resilience, and competitive edge. Be part of a dynamic and inclusive team that’s redefining how businesses anticipate, manage, and capitalize on risk.

In this role you will have the opportunity to demonstrate the following:

• Data Product Vision and Development: Define, develop, and maintain a clear data product vision that aligns with client objectives. Collaborate with stakeholders to translate business needs into actionable product requirements.
• Delivering Business Value: Drive new product functionalities and features in line with market value. Create and update comprehensive product documentation, including user stories, acceptance criteria, and product roadmaps, to ensure clarity and consistency across teams and stakeholders.
• Stakeholder Collaboration: Work closely with business stakeholders to gather requirements and facilitate discussions to ensure alignment on product goals. Act as a liaison between technical teams and business units to aid understanding of product vision.
• Governance and Compliance Alignment: Ensure that product development adheres to industry regulations, data quality standards, and data governance policies.
• Delivery Oversight: Work closely with data engineers, data analysts and developers to ensure timely delivery of features.
• Value Measurement: Define KPIs and success metrics for data products and monitor performance post-launch.

While this role requires expertise in Data Product Ownership, we are looking for versatile team members, capable of successfully executing a diverse array of data-driven projects. This includes expertise in agile delivery, requirements gathering, data analysis, stakeholder management, governance, and compliance.

As part of your role, you will also have the opportunity to contribute to the business and your own personal growth, through activities that form part of the following categories:

• Business Development: Supporting and/or leading on proposals, RFPs, bids, client pitch contribution, client hosting at events.
• Internal contribution: Proposition development, internal think-tanks, whitepapers, practice development (operations, recruitment, team events & activities) etc.
• Learning & Development: Training to support your career development and the skills demand within the company, including leadership and technology certifications etc.

We are looking for candidates who bring a combination of technical expertise, consultancy experience, and leadership skills to excel in this role. The ideal candidate will demonstrate most or all of the following:

• Current experience in a consulting firm and/or a Financial Services background (minimum 2/4 years of experience, depending on grade) with evidence of effective stakeholder management to address business challenges.
• Experience in delivering/managing a data product within an agile/SAFe framework.
• Experience working across various stages of end-to-end product development, including technology implementation and large-scale deployments, and maintaining awareness of the latest tools & technologies to create innovative solutions.
• Ability to simplify complex concepts, effectively communicate outcomes, and tell compelling stories that resonate with audiences with varying technological awareness and at all levels of seniority.
• Experience leading a team of developers/engineers and managing technical and non-technical stakeholders across the client organisation.
• SC Eligible

Technical And Analytical Skills:

• Extensive experience and strong understanding of product management principles, user story creation, and key product management tools such as JIRA.
• Familiarity with SQL and coding languages like Python is a plus.
• Strong understanding of governance principles, and the ability to track and leverage success metrics like KPIs or OKR’s.
• Strong understanding of data modelling and ETL processes.
• Familiarity with project governance tools/techniques for product delivery (e.g., user stories, backlog management, feature prioritisation).
• Practical experience with agile methodologies such as Scrum, Kanban, or SAFe frameworks.
• Strong storytelling and presentation skills with the ability to convey technical and non-technical concepts to a wide variety of audiences.
• Experience with harnessing data to enhance user experience.

For candidates applying for the Senior Consultant role, we additionally require:

• Certified as a product owner/scrum master/SAFe practitioner
• Evidence of driving data product strategy
• Understanding of data product architecture
• Demonstrated experience in people management or workstream management
• Experience supporting and participating in the commercial cycle, including defining project scope and agreeing on budgets

Our DFRC team is part of the wider Data & AI Factory team within our Enterprise Data Analytics (EDA) team which takes pride in transforming clients’ businesses with Data & AI making a tangible difference for our clients, setting industry standards and unlocking business value. By being part of the EDA team, you can grow your expertise, contribute to meaningful work, and celebrate successes as part of a dynamic team. DFRC consultants will engage in projects designed to transform financial operations for our clients. Our team’s expertise spans across several focus areas from risk based decisioning & analytics, credit risk, financial crime and KYC/AML to data privacy, governance and the many applications of GenAI within financial services.

At Capgemini Invent, our strong partnerships with our clients and partners allows us to harness the power of data and AI to address complex business challenges. We’re building a successful team of experts across risk and finance; leveraging these capabilities to solve intricate problems and unlock new opportunities in diverse sectors.

We value diversity: we embrace the value that diverse teams bring to our EDA practice and our clients. We focus on clients: positively impacting our clients data culture and operations. We are committed to learning and development: obsessed with advancing our data, insights and analytics skills. We're stronger when we collaborate: active collaboration and other Invent capabilities and with wider Capgemini, most notably I&D, Cambridge Consultants and with select third party alliances. We foster community: building new analytics and AI products and services through our functional and industry communities of interest. We believe data can be a driver for a better world: we will use our AI & analytics skills to improve sustainability, address climate change and champion active inclusion.

We are delighted to have received the “Glassdoor Best Places to work UK” accolade for 4 consecutive years. To see what it’s like to work at Capgemini Invent, visit our Glassdoor page.

At Capgemini we don’t just believe in Diversity & Inclusion, we actively go out to making it a working reality. Driven by our core values and Active Inclusion Campaign, we build environments where you can bring your whole self to work. We aim to build an environment where employees can enjoy a positive work-life balance. We embed hybrid working in all that we do and make flexible working arrangements the day-to-day reality for our people. All UK employees are eligible to request flexible working arrangements. Employee wellbeing is vitally important to us as an organisation. We see a healthy and happy workforce a critical component for us to achieve our organisational ambitions. To help support wellbeing we have trained ‘Mental Health Champions’ across each of our business areas. We have also invested in wellbeing apps such as Thrive and Peppy.

Whilst you will have London, Manchester or Glasgow as an office base location, you must be fully flexible in terms of assignment location, as these roles may involve periods of time away from home at short notice. We offer a remuneration package which includes flexible benefits options for you to choose to suit your own personal circumstances and a variable element dependent grade and on company and personal performance. We’re also focused on using tech to have a positive social impact. So, we’re working to reduce our own carbon footprint and improve everyone’s access to a digital world. It’s something we’re really serious about. In fact, we were even named as one of the world’s most ethical companies by the Ethisphere Institute for the 10th year. When you join Capgemini, you’ll join a team that does the right thing.

Capgemini is a global business and technology transformation partner, helping organizations to accelerate their dual transition to a digital and sustainable world, while creating tangible impact for enterprises and society. It is a responsible and diverse group of 340,000 team members in more than 50 countries. With its strong over 55-year heritage, Capgemini is trusted by its clients to unlock the value of technology to address the entire breadth of their business needs. It delivers end-to-end services and solutions leveraging strengths from strategy and design to engineering, all fuelled by its market leading capabilities in AI, cloud and data, combined with its deep industry expertise and partner ecosystem. The Group reported 2023 global revenues of €22.5 billion.