Data Strategy & Transfomation Consultant - Senior Consultant; Manager

Capco Greater London, England, United Kingdom

Capco’s global Data Practice team of 800+ data practitioners enables financial institutions to become data-driven by helping transform their understanding, management, storage, and use of data to derive value for themselves and their customers.

Our team collaborates with clients to formulate focused, actionable, and effective data strategies that deliver business outcomes in a sustainable fashion. We translate strategy into action – designing, implementing and mobilising innovative data capabilities with a focus on efficiency and scalability, and partnering with leading vendors and industry bodies.

Drawing on our deep domain and business expertise, we architect and engineer modern data platforms and curated data products, with a focus on automation and data management by design. We partner with business, operations, and technology teams to embed and sustain these capabilities in business-as-usual and we are directing the design and implementation of next generation data platforms across the industry.

Our clients and peers voted us as the A-Team Best Consultancy in Data Management in 2021, and value our ability to identify and develop top data talent.

You’ll be joining Capco’s Data Strategy & Advisory team as a Data Strategy and Transformation Consultant. You will use your deep data expertise to formulate focused, actionable and effective data strategies to sustainably deliver business outcomes for our clients.

Our projects vary in their nature, and your responsibilities will differ based on client requirements, but could include:

• Supporting the definition of the client’s data strategy, including its vision, objectives, and key results (OKRs)
• Providing a clear and impartial assessment of client data capability levels through capability assessment / maturity models
• Facilitating interviews and workshops to identify client pain points and their root causes, and linking these to data capabilities (e.g. Data Governance, Data Quality, Data Architecture)
• Collating inputs to develop the data strategy business case, and developing strategic roadmaps
• Reviewing existing client data processes, tooling, and governance, and providing recommendations to improve their effectiveness
• Supporting the definition of the client’s data Target Operating Model (TOM), including design of processes, roles & responsibilities, and governance to sustain the data strategy in BAU
• Supporting the definition of data policies, standards and guidelines
• Assisting with data architecture reviews by advising on data management solutions

Most importantly, you’ll have a passion for data. You will bring your aptitude for problem solving and change to enable clients to achieve their business outcomes.

To qualify for the role, you will have most of the following:

• A minimum of 3 years’ experience in Data Strategy and / or Data Management
• A strong understanding of Data Strategy, Data Management, and Data Analytics principles, and one or more of several common Data Management methodologies and capability models (e.g. DAMA DMBOK, DCAM, CDMC) and toolsets
• Experience in facilitating maturity assessments, eliciting & understanding client strategic objectives, pain points, and requirements, and providing actionable recommendations
• Experience supporting the definition of data strategies, business cases and roadmaps
• Experience in documenting current-state processes, roles & responsibilities and governance structures, and designing their target-state
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills
• Excellent stakeholder management skills, with strong experience and comfort working autonomously and in team environments
• Strong experience in simplifying complex concepts, with excellent verbal and written communication skills, including in Microsoft PowerPoint, Word and Excel
• Experience working in demanding project environments, with a high level of commitment and drive, including whilst under pressure and in ambiguous circumstances

• Consulting experience at a top-tier consultancy, or a…