Data and AI Senior ConsultantsManagers

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

Whilst we work across different sectors we are particularly interested in speaking to people with a background in one or more of the following sectors: Banking Insurance Wealth & Asset Management Life Sciences Public Sector Energy & Utilities. 

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 likely acting as a trusted advisor to senior stakeholders. 

• Business Development: Be a subject matter expert leading and/or supporting sales activity across the full lifecycle from pre-sales support identification of Data and AI opportunities through to scoping the delivery phase of engagements. 

• Thought leadership & Proposition Ownership: Be a key voice in our Data and AI community and externally developing data-related propositions and approaches to common client challenges sharing knowledge and creating thought leadership and marketing materials that support sales efforts. 

• People Development: Act as an example and go-to for more junior members of the team by sharing knowledge mentoring and leading by example. Possibly provide line management and career development directly as part of our career development manager framework. 

• Maintain Expertise: Stay current with the market most especially in different data technologies platforms and solutions that are relevant to client challenges or needs. 

Qualifications :

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. 

• Familiarity with data product development methodologies and data monetisation strategies. 

• 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. 

Additional Information :

Our commitment:Wavestone values and Positive Way 

• Elevateclient satisfactionby impacting high-growth business across US UK and Europe. Shape culture enhance value propositions and foster business development. 

• Nurtureemployee growthwith Wavestone horizon career path competitive compensation transparent salary policy tailored training and internal mobility. 

• Embrace acollective mindsetwithin a barrier-free collaborative team. Engage in vibrant people culture through regular events meetings and committees. 

• Experienceethical responsibilitywith flexible work options strong CSR commitment and a culture promoting work-life balance and time-off. 

Benefits 

• Competitive salary and bonus scheme. 

• Income protection insurance 5% company pension private health and dental cover life insurance company share scheme. 

• Additional flexible benefits you can select from such as additional holidays additional pension contributions subsidized gym subscriptions to wellbeing apps Netflix retail vouchers.

• 25 days annual leave.  

Travel and Location 

• 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. 

Diversity and Inclusion 

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. 

Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Full-time