INV Senior Consultant, AI & Data, Data Strategist, Infrastructure, TC UKI

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(INV) Senior Consultant, AI & Data, Data Strategist, Infrastructure, TC UKI

Location:

Manchester

Other locations:

Primary Location Only

Salary:

Competitive

Date:

7 May 2026

Job description

Requisition :

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AI and Data Strategist

Grade:
Senior Consultant

Position Overview

We are seeking an experienced AI and Data Strategy Senior Consultant to help shape and deliver enterprise-wide AI transformation initiatives for clients across the infrastructure industry. This role requires a strategic business technologist who can operate as part of a team to translate AI, data and automation capabilities into tangible business value while designing the organisational frameworks needed to become an AI-first enterprise.

Your client impact

• Help define comprehensive AI, data and automation strategies tailored to client organisations across consumer products, retail, health, energy, and life sciences sectors
• Support in-depth analysis of industry-specific value chain and identify a portfolio of high impact AI, data and automation use cases, to drive revenue growth, operational efficiency, and competitive differentiation
• Help assess organisational AI and data landscape maturity and create tailored roadmaps for transformation in areas such as operating models, organisational structure and capabilities required to deliver the strategy

• Contribute to the development of high-level business and technology architectures and operating models that enable scalable AI deployment (encompassing both data and automation)

• Support EY project leadership in cross-functional workshops and design sessions with senior stakeholders as they seek to align diverse stakeholder groups around a unified AI vision
• Help create content to articulate complex AI/agentic concepts and recommendations to senior leadership audiences

• Conduct analysis that inputs to the prioritisation of AI initiatives based on strategic value, feasibility, and organisational readiness
• Contribute to solution development of high impact bid responses and proposal for AI led transformation

Essential Qualifications

• STEM degree or an equivalent certification in Computer Science, Data Science, Engineering, or related field

Essential Criteria

• Experience of contributing to enterprise-level AI strategies for complex or multinational organisations
• Familiarity with the design of operating models and organisational structures for data and AI functions
• Familiarity and understanding of AI/ML technologies, including generative AI, predictive analytics, NLP, data and Intelligent Automation
• Familiarity with AI governance frameworks, model risk management, and regulatory requirements

Soft Skills

• Communication, storytelling and presentation skills

• Experience of facilitation and workshop design capabilities including ability to influence senior stakeholders
• Experience of interacting and collaborating with multi-disciplinary teams (data scientists, engineers, business strategists)
• Continuous learning mindset to stay ahead of rapidly evolving AI landscape and strategies for deployment
• Strategic thinking with ability to translate complex technical concepts into business language and explain how they drive business value

Preferred Criteria

• Familiarity of modern data governance frameworks and architectures, cloud platforms, and AI infrastructure including DAMA

• Exposure to at least one of the following domains and/or sectors:
• Sector:
  Infrastructure

Domain:
Finance, Supply Chain, Commercial, Programme & Portfolio, Capital Delivery

• Experience with Big 4 consulting methodologies and framework

Preferred Qualifications

• Certifications in relevant areas (e.g., cloud platforms, data governance, AI ethics, automation technologies)

• Knowledge of sustainability and climate change challenges across industries
• Knowledge of one or more of the following sectors:
  Energy, Government, Transport, Power and Utilities, Telco and Media
• Experienc…