Data and AI - Senior Consultants/Senior Managers

Wavestone is a leading global transformation consulting firm known for navigating critical challenges and driving sustainable growth. We aim to deliver lasting change that positively impacts customers, communities, and society. Our journey is defined by a true team spirit, where support, encouragement, and motivation are the keystones of our collaborative environment.

Drawing on more than 5,500 employees across Europe, North America, and Asia, we seamlessly combine first-class sector expertise with a 360° transformation portfolio of high-value consulting services. Our clients value us as an independent, critical voice with an outstanding track record and profound technological expertise. During strategic transformations, they place their trust in our consultants to reflect, analyse, and act at their side. That’s how we make change happen.

Wavestone UK now boasts a team of 300 employees, with ambitions to rapidly grow in the coming years. Our services span business and digital transformation, cybersecurity, operational improvement, risk advisory, and IT advisory. We exist to provide end-to-end expert advice to clients across industries, with a particular focus on Insurance, Financial Services, and Life Sciences helping them to positively transform to become modern, innovative organisations that thrive in a sustainable way.

Our commitment to excellence and our people is underscored by recognition we have received in the UK’s Great Place to Work accreditation process. In 2024 we are proud to have been recognised in the following Best Workplaces categories: Large organisations, Wellbeing, Development, and a Best Workplace for Women.

Recognised by the Financial Times as one of the UK’s Leading Management Consultants 2024, Wavestone UK is motivated and energised team with a collective sense of purpose. Dedicated to diversity and inclusivity, Wavestone fosters a collaborative and dynamic work environment. Our core values - energetic, responsible, and together - shape the foundation of our corporate culture.

Join us for a rewarding career in management consulting, offering competitive compensation, continuous learning, and ample opportunities for professional growth.

Becoming part of the UK team in our Data & AI Service Line will present new opportunities for you to make a positive impact as we embark on securing major projects with our top international clients. This will mean working with our FTSE100 clients and beyond on a wide range of advisory projects, bringing deep business and technology expertise to help address Data and AI opportunities and challenges across their organisations.

Wavestone has a significant and growing capability in Data & AI that is in high demand from our clients. Our clients trust us to tailor advisory engagements to aid with some of their most complex data-related challenges, and as a result, we are growing our Data & AI service line to be able to respond to the increasing breadth and complexity of data-driven transformation initiatives.

We are looking for talented and experienced Data & AI management consultants across various levels of seniority that are confident and capable of being a key trusted advisor to clients from the outset. Join our team to help grow this offering and be part of impactful engagements encompassing (but not limited to):

• D&AI Strategy & Operating Model Design: Analysing client needs and developing comprehensive data strategies aligned with business objectives, including governance and sourcing strategies as well as organisational structures that enable data democratisation.
• D&AI Use Case Development & Value Realisation: End-to-end advisory from identifying high-potential AI/ML opportunities to developing business cases, prioritising implementation roadmaps, and establishing ROI measurement frameworks to track and demonstrate value.
• D&AI Architecture & Platform Advisory: Combining architectural assessments with platform selection guidance, providing vendor-independent recommendations for optimal data ecosystem design.
• Data Migration, Integration & Pipeline Support: Providing strategic guidance on data migration and integration approaches, logical pipeline design, and data flow orchestration, based on best-practice architectural patterns that enable seamless data movement across the organisation.
• Insight Delivery & Visualisation Design: Comprehensive advisory on transforming data into actionable insights through effective dashboard design, visualisation best practices, and self-service analytics capabilities that drive data-informed decision making.
• D&AI Products & Service Design: Advisory on designing, developing, and commercialising data products and AI-enabled services, including monetisation strategies, product roadmaps, and go-to-market approaches that create new revenue streams.

As a senior member of the Data & AI practice, your key responsibilities will cover client delivery, business development, people development, and key contribution to our thought leadership. Depending on your level of experience you will be expected to:

• Lead & Deliver Engagements: Manage data strategy and architecture engagements with our clients, responsible for the day-to-day running of the engagements.
• Develop New Business: Be a subject matter expert leading and/or supporting sales activity across the full lifecycle.
• Thought leadership & Proposition Ownership: Be a key voice in our Data and AI community.
• People Development: Act as an example and go-to for more junior members of the team, by sharing knowledge, mentoring, and leading by example.
• Maintain Expertise: Stay current with the market, most especially in different data technologies, platforms, and solutions that are relevant to client challenges or needs.

To be considered for this role we would like coverage across a significant majority of the below:

• Significant consulting experience, client-facing, or equivalent tenure in relevant industries with a focus on data and AI initiatives.
• Demonstrable experience in data and/or AI strategy and operating model disciplines, having been responsible for developing and delivering strategic data and/or AI/ML initiatives and defining optimal organisational structures for the Data & AI functions either within a wider technology function or a business unit.
• Experience of helping organisations identify and prioritise high-value use cases for advanced analytics, machine learning, and AI/GenAI.
• Strong understanding of data ecosystem components including data lakes, data warehouses, data mesh architectures, and associated architectural patterns.
• Strong understanding of methodologies and principles of data science and MLOps, including model development, validation, and lifecycle management.
• Experience in data pipeline design, ETL/ELT processes, and data integration approaches and appreciation of trade-offs associated with specific use-cases and architectural choices.
• Knowledge of data visualisation good practices and experience in designing effective dashboards and reporting solutions for effective decision making.
• Experience with one or more cloud data platforms such as Snowflake, Databricks, or cloud-native data services in Azure, AWS, GCP.
• Demonstrable experience in leading or delivering large data migrations and/or transformation programmes.

Our commitment: Wavestone values and Positive Way. Elevate client satisfaction by impacting high-growth business across US, UK, and Europe. Shape culture, enhance value propositions, and foster business development. Nurture employee growth with Wavestone horizon career path, competitive compensation, transparent salary policy, tailored training, and internal mobility. Embrace a collective mindset within a barrier-free, collaborative team. Engage in vibrant people culture through regular events, meetings, and committees. Experience ethical responsibility with flexible work options, strong CSR commitment, and a culture promoting work-life balance and time-off.

Benefits include competitive salary and bonus scheme, income protection insurance, 5% company pension, private health and dental cover, life insurance, company share scheme, additional flexible benefits such as additional holidays, additional pension contributions, subsidised gym, subscriptions to wellbeing apps, Netflix, retail vouchers, and 25 days annual leave.

Employees are not required to work in a Wavestone office on a full-time basis but are required to commute to the office/client site whenever necessary. Wavestone UK office is in the heart of the city of London. Note: Mandatory 2-3 days per week in Wavestone office/client site during probation.

At Wavestone, we celebrate diversity and inclusion. We have a strong global CSR agenda and an active Diversity & Inclusion committee with Gender Equality, LGBTQ+, Disability Inclusion, Social Mobility, and Anti-Racism networks. If you need flexibility, assistance, or an adjustment to our recruitment process due to a disability or impairment, please reach out to us to discuss this.