Senior Data Consultant

Join a global professional services leader, committed to solving the world’s biggest challenges across energy, transport, utilities and urbanisation. We are seeking curious minds with a passion for data-driven problem solving to join and shape our growing Data & Insights team. You will lead the delivery of innovative solutions across sectors such as rail, highways, telecoms, and future energy, to improve infrastructure for generations to come.

Your responsibilities will vary across the project lifecycle, with opportunities to contribute to our continuously growing and improving team. We embrace a start-up mentality within a global corporate framework, encouraging fresh ideas and agile thinking. This role provides you with the freedom to explore your interests across diverse projects and sectors, with support and encouragement to develop your skills and experience.

We are particularly interested in receiving applications from professionals in groups that are underrepresented in the engineering and data sectors. We are committed to creating an inclusive environment where diversity is valued, and everyone can thrive.

What we do

GHD is one of the world's leading professional services companies operating in the global markets of water, energy and resources, environment, property and buildings, and transportation. We help our clients unlock the full potential of their data by combining management and analytical expertise with cutting-edge technology solutions.

• Mobility Intelligence: We develop world-class solutions in mobility and logistics using high-volume data sources such as mobile network data.
• Strategic Modelling: Working alongside industry experts in the built and natural environment, we create models and simulations to understand and forecast complex scenarios.
• Analytics Engineering: We bring the latest in cloud, software, and data best practices to our clients to develop clean and expressive datasets.
• Asset Management: We combine our knowledge of the infrastructure lifecycle across industries and our expertise in data-driven insights to help our clients make decisions about the stewardship of their assets.

Your responsibilities:

• Stakeholder Engagement & Communication: Pro-actively engaging with stakeholders to gather information, determine root causes of issues, and develop strong relationships.
• Technical Leadership & Project Delivery: Leading technical project delivery by designing solutions, writing code, and conducting analysis using Agile principles.
• Team & Business Development: Actively engaging with team growth activities and operational tasks.
• Continuous Learning & Growth: Seek out opportunities to improve your technical and non-technical skills, with support from the team.

About you

We would love to hear from you if you can bring proven, demonstrable senior experience in any of the above areas. As a consulting role, we are looking for effective problem solvers, leaders, and communicators.

Personal Characteristics:

• You are an effective collaborator and communicator who can work well with a range of clients.
• You are inquisitive and eager to improve and develop your skillset.
• You are comfortable being part of a growing team that is building a business.
• You are an independent thinker who can present their own ideas even when challenging the norm.
• You have an open, inclusive, collaborative working style and understand the importance of diversity and inclusion in the workplace.
• You are an analytical thinker with the ability to break down complex problems into manageable chunks.

Previous Experience:

Due to the diversity of our projects, a range of skills and experience is beneficial to this role. While a balance of technical and management capabilities is essential, we place a particular emphasis on strong technical expertise.

Technical Capabilities:

• Strong data manipulation and analysis skills.
• Programming using Python and SQL (additional languages are a benefit).
• Dashboarding using Tableau and/or Power BI and data visualisation using common data science packages.
• Understanding of version control (preferably through Git).
• Experience in contributing to and improving technical playbooks.
• Solid knowledge of statistical methods and concepts.

Management Capabilities:

• Management consulting expertise, including methodologies, frameworks, tools, and approaches to solve business problems.
• Experience in Business Analytics, using data and statistical analysis to derive insights and make informed decisions.
• Experience in Agile training and effective implementation of Agile principles.
• Clear and detailed client communication, including presentation and storytelling of technical concepts.
• Project Management skills, ensuring projects are delivered on time, in budget, and within scope.

About GHD:

Being the best that we can be is in our culture. We are a family of smart, innovative, and creative problem solvers. In our employee-owned company, everything feels like it matters more.

Our Commitment to you: Commitment is a powerful word that defines how we do business, how we serve our clients and how we care for one another. We will support your needs by giving you the tools to do your best work and then recognise your achievements.

This is a hybrid role, with an expectation of an average of 2 days per week working at our central London office.

If you are interested in this position, please upload your CV along with a 200-word statement outlining what draws you to our work applying data-driven approaches within the built environment.