Senior Data Consultant

Location(s): UK, Europe & Africa : UK :
London

BAE Systems Digital Intelligence is home to 4,500 digital, cyber and intelligence experts. We work collaboratively across 10 countries to collect, connect and understand complex data, so that governments, nation states, armed forces and commercial businesses can unlock digital advantage in the most demanding environments.

Job specification
London.  Full time.

Job Description

The role holder:

Defines and delivers a client’s information management and exploitation strategy to transform the way an organisation derives value from its data assets, whilst securing and managing them appropriately. The Data Consultant has expertise in data exploitation, data solutions, data management, problem solving and business consulting and analysis. This puts them in a position to advise client organisations on data-driven transformation.

The Data Consultant focuses on the people, process, business change, requirements and planning aspects of data challenges, but will have a good high-level understanding of approaches, techniques and tools in data architecture, data solution delivery and data science.

Works under broad direction. Work is often self-initiated. Is fully responsible for meeting allocated technical and/or group objectives. Analyses, designs, plans, executes and evaluates work to time, cost and quality targets. Establishes milestones and has a significant role in the assignment of tasks and/or responsibilities.

Influences organisation, customers, suppliers, partners and peers on the contribution of own specialism. Makes decisions which impact the success of assigned work, i.e. results, deadlines and budget. Has significant influence over the allocation and management of resources appropriate to given assignments. Leads on user/customer and group collaboration throughout all stages of work. Ensures users’ needs are met consistently through each work stage.

Builds appropriate and effective business relationships across the organisation and with customers, suppliers and partners. Creates and supports collaborative ways of working across group/area of responsibility. Facilitates collaboration between stakeholders who have diverse objectives.

Implements and executes policies aligned to strategic plans. Performs an extensive range and variety of complex technical and/or professional work activities. Undertakes work which requires the application of fundamental principles in a wide and often unpredictable range of contexts. Engages and coordinates with subject matter experts to resolve complex issues as they relate to customer/organisational requirements. Understands the relationships between own specialism and customer/organisational requirements.

Core Duties

Understands and distils business challenges in complex environments, providing thought leadership.

Develops and actions data strategies and roadmaps, for example through undertaking maturity assessments and user needs analysis to define a vision and articulate the steps to achieving it.

Considers business and cultural change aspects alongside technical data challenges.

Defines and supports the implementation of an organisation’s data governance framework.

Defines the operating model required to support an organisation’s data vision.

Develops relationships with senior client stakeholders and represents their interests.

Translates business goals into actionable plans.

Communicates complex data challenges and strategies to senior client stakeholders and delivery teams.

Takes responsibility for understanding client requirements and user needs, delivering analysis and problem resolution. Identifies, evaluates and recommends options.

Manages the investigation of corporate data requirements. Coordinates the application of data analysis and data modelling techniques, based upon a detailed understanding of corporate information requirements, in order to establish, modify or maintain data structures and their associated components (entity descriptions, relationship descriptions, attribute definitions).

Seeks to fully address client needs, enhancing the capabilities and effectiveness of solutions by ensuring that they are properly…