The Data Consulting Practice in BAE Systems Applied Intelligence has opened a Data Strategist vacancy for a talented Data Consultant with strong data advisory experience.

The Role:

The Data Strategist will primarily focus on collaborating with our clients to define and deliver large transformations of their data capabilities. The ideal candidate will play a leading role in the early stages of such engagements:  

Our Data Strategists:

• Operate as a key data SME across one or more clients.
• Manage workloads across a team of data consultants.
• Understand and respond to diverging client needs and aspirations.
• Work closely with our Business Development community as pre-sales data SMEs.

Typical activities include working with client stakeholders to:

• Map current levels of capability to identify strengths and weaknesses.
• Define the future state in the form of Data Visions, Data Strategies and Roadmaps of Change across heterogeneous data landscapes.
• Lead data-focused initiatives to successful outcomes such as technology implementations, organisational change and data capability improvements.
• Become a trusted adviser to client stakeholders.

You:

The successful candidate will have worked in the data advisory space, ideally acquired in a consulting environment, and at least ten years’ experience in roles relating to data management, governance and exploitation. You will have an engaging approach to understanding client data-related needs and aspirations, and in defining strategic business and technology solutions.

In addition, the successful candidate will have solid experience across a number of:

• Analysis of the current state of the client organisation's data capabilities, establishing strategic requirements and the case for change.
• Shaping future plans in partnership with client stakeholders, resulting in outputs such as data strategies, maturity assessments and road maps.
• Communication of complex topics to a diverse  audience and developing and managing relationships with senior stakeholders such as Chief Officers.
• In-depth experience in 1 or 2 business verticals and a level of understanding / experience in other business verticals.
• Providing guidance on best practice through the development of principles, policies, standards, governance frameworks and process definition, with a degree of knowledge of relevant data legislation.
• Forming and leading teams to deliver long-term change in data capability.
• Knowledge of data tools and technologies including analysis and vendor selection.
• Data architecture across multiple data domains.

• Achieving organisational change through activities such as data governance frameworks implementation, data target operating models, communication strategies or change readiness programmes.
• Creation and implementation of data-driven processes and control procedures.
• Experience in operating in a pre-sales capacity, including the definition of offerings and experience of the full lifecycle to take offers to market.

Company information

We help nations, governments and businesses around the world defend themselves against cybercrime, reduce their risk in the connected world, comply with regulation, and transform their operations.  We do this using our unique set of solutions, systems, experience and processes - often collecting and analysing huge volumes of data.

We employ over 4,000 people across 18 countries in the Americas, APAC, UK and EMEA

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