Senior Manager, Data Engineering in London

About the company

The company is a global consulting firm that partners with leaders to drive change and create value. With deep industry expertise, and enabled by advanced technology, the firm helps clients to deliver with greater confidence and certainty. With over 2,000 people across the UK, Europe, North America, Asia and Australia, the firm combines global insight with local understanding. The firm works across energy and resources, financial services, government and public sector, consumer products and retail, pharmaceuticals and life sciences, manufacturing, and technology, media and telecoms, with capabilities spanning strategy, transformation and operational excellence - all powered by advanced technology, data, AI and digital innovation.

Clients value the company’s collaborative approach and the way its teams integrate seamlessly - all working with a shared understanding of what matters most. The firm is known for its kind, curious experts who listen closely and care deeply about client success as they help clients transform energy markets, modernise financial platforms, expand telecoms and digital networks through advanced data analytics, enable digital services in government, and unlock growth in consumer sectors. Certified as a Great Place to Work around the world, the company has been recognised by the Financial Times in 22 categories of its UK Leading Management Consultants rankings, and by Forbes for four consecutive years as one of the World’s Best Management Consulting Firms.

Our Data, AI, Solutions & Engineering practice are looking for an experienced Data Engineer at Senior Manager level to join the team. Our Data, AI, Solutions and Engineering (DAISE) practice consists of over 100 UK and nearshore data professionals, with deep expertise across data strategy, data science, governance & engineering. We focus on delivering value-adding, sustainable data and AI capabilities aligned to our clients’ needs. Our team won Data Consultancy of the Year at the British Data Awards 2025, and we're partners with Microsoft and AWS.

What you will be doing

• Defining and implementing on premise or cloud architectures, (e.g. a cloud data warehouse, data lake or data platform) to enable digital transformation.
• Working with clients on data warehousing, building operational ETL/ELT data pipelines across a number of sources, and constructing relational and dimensional data models.
• Performing maturity assessments across clients’ data capabilities and recommending improvements.
• Building technology blueprints and advising clients on the different technology options.
• Translating business requirements (both functional and non-functional) into solutions, ensuring compliance with the organisation's strategy, policies and standards and in some cases, help customers to define new policies, principles and standards.
• Helping clients to identify risks and mitigations for their complex data programmes, as well as transition to modern cloud-based infrastructures (AWS, Azure, GCP) by leveraging related architecture patterns (e.g., APIs, events).
• Working with clients in key areas of data governance, such as in defining principles including, but not limited to Master Data Management, Data Lineage and Data Security.
• Directly line managing teams of data engineers, responsible for managing their workloads and their development throughout their career at the company.
• Generating and originating new business development opportunities from your network of connections and cross-selling and upselling across existing client projects.

Your skills and experience

• Passionate individual who is excited by problems with data and can bring a good mix of technical delivery and core consulting skills in client engagements.
• Ability to own and run complex client engagements, interact with leaders across industry, work with senior stakeholders to help them understand and frame their problems, assess their current state, and make impactful recommendations which help shape their thinking.
• Strong hands on expertise in data engineering, delivering data architectures, data pipelines and solutions that are robust and scalable using modern delivery frameworks and tools (e.g. Databricks).
• Experience in using cloud technologies (Azure, AWS, GCP) as both infrastructure and as a service, as well as big data platforms either on-premise or cloud setup.
• Knowledge of different technology stacks including common legacy and modern stacks, experience of applying DevOps practices to data engineering as well as ability to build CI/CD pipelines.
• Competent in SQL and at least one modern programming language, such as Python.
• Understanding of key core concepts like distributed computing, batch & stream processing, functional and object-orientated programming, how pipelines are built and deployed on cloud, pipeline schedules and SLAs.
• Well-versed with documentation and artefacts that need to go along with the solution design and delivery work.
• Line management / team leadership experience, ideally in multiple geographical locations.
• Experience working to a formal sales target in a consulting environment and evidence of bringing in new clients.

What a career at the company will give you

Putting People First. The company is a People First company and wellbeing is at the forefront of our culture. We recognise the importance of work-life balance and flexible working and provide our staff amazing benefits. Some of these benefits include:

• Generous Annual Leave Policy: We recognise everyone needs a well-deserved break. We provide our employees with 5 weeks of annual leave, fully available at the start of each year. In addition to this, we have introduced our 5-Year Recharge benefit which allows all employees an additional 2 weeks of paid leave after 5 years continuous service.
• Flexible Working: We know that the 'ideal' work-life balance will vary from person to person and change at different stages of our working lives. To accommodate this, we have implemented a hybrid working policy and introduced more flexibility around taking unpaid leave.
• Corporate Responsibility Days: Our world is important to us, so all our employees get 3 every year to help social and environmental causes and increase our impact on the communities that mean the most to us.
• Wellbeing Fund: We want to encourage all employees to take charge and prioritise their own wellbeing. We've introduced our annual People Fund to support this by offering every individual a fund to support and manage their wellbeing through an activity of their choice.
• Profit Share Scheme: All employees participate in the company Group Profit Share Scheme so everyone has a stake in the company’s success.

Diversity and Inclusion

We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We believe that creating an environment where everyone feels a sense of belonging is central to our culture and that diversity is paramount to driving creativity, innovation, and value for our clients and for our people.

An award-winning workplace. You can be a part of our 'Great Place to Work' - with our commitment to women and well-being in the workplace for all.

We maintain high standards of environmental performance and transparency, which can be seen through our commitment to Net Zero with our SBTI-verified Scope 1, 2 and 3 emissions reduction targets and our support of the Better Business Act. We report our progress publicly and ensure that we are also externally assessed and scored through organisations like CDP and EcoVadis - helping us to continually identify where we can improve.

We have a long legacy of supporting the communities in which we work, and offer a variety of ways to contribute, by putting people first and creating impact that lasts. Our Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) agenda is about giving back to the communities in which we live and work by sharing our skills, talent and time. In essence, we aim to empower and encourage everyone in the firm to contribute to the things we care about, and support registered charities and organisations with a clear social or environmental purpose to increase the positive impact they can have.