Senior Data Technology Consultant

Job description

Position Description:

Challenge yourself, change lives and help shape the UK’s digital revolution. We look to our Business Consultants, to drive change, inspire trust with clients, and take responsibility for some of the world’s most ambitious transformation projects. As a Senior Data Technology Consultant within our successful Business Consulting practice, you, alongside a collaborative team of consulting colleagues, will take a central role in providing support to our clients with a focus on driving their business outcomes using data and technology. You will also support the growth of the wider evolving business consulting function.

A key focus of the role will be to deliver practical advice to clients relating to their enterprise data technologies and strategies whilst looking out for opportunities to support them further leveraging our wider skillsets, propositions, and IP. You will work across the Business Consulting and Technology Advisory Practice to generate pull through of CGI services at scale across the UK. This is a Senior Consultant role and the successful candidate will be responsible for working with others to shape, manage and deliver consultative engagements with clients. You will form part of a revenue-generating team.

CGI was recognised in the Sunday Times Best Places to Work List 2024 and has been named one of the ‘World’s Best Employers’ by Forbes magazine. We offer a competitive salary, excellent pension, private healthcare, plus a share scheme (3.5% + 3.5% matching) which makes you a CGI Partner not just an employee. We are committed to inclusivity, building a genuinely diverse community of tech talent and inspiring everyone to pursue careers in our sector, including our Armed Forces, and are proud to hold a Gold Award in recognition of our support of the Armed Forces Corporate Covenant. Join us and you’ll be part of an open, friendly community of experts. We’ll train and support you in taking your career wherever you want it to go.

This role will be based out of London Offices, but this is a hybrid role where you can also work from home a few days per week. We expect you to travel 2 days per week to CGI/client site (on average).

Your future duties and responsibilities:

• Lead and deliver large-scale strategic data technology projects, helping clients navigate complex data transformations.
• Provide high-quality consulting services to clients, presenting technical concepts in simple, accessible language.
• Leverage your deep understanding of legacy and cloud-based data technologies, including Data Lake, Data Warehouse, and Lakehouse concepts.
• Bring broad technical knowledge of Azure data products, with subject matter expertise in areas like Azure Data Factory, Microsoft Fabric, and others. Ideally, hold relevant Azure data tooling certifications.
• Drive efficiencies across the data lifecycle, advising on critical data handling considerations from a technology perspective.
• Support the growth and development of our business consulting team, contributing to the team’s ability to deliver cutting-edge solutions.
• Build strong relationships with stakeholders, both within large-scale organisations and on the consultancy side, helping clients achieve their strategic objectives.
• Utilise your experience with data modelling to guide clients in optimising their data architectures and improving data flow across systems.

Required qualifications to be successful in this role:

• Advising on architecture solutions and design.
• Experience of owning Data solutions on hyperscalers Azure as a minimum but AWS or GCP also desirable.
• Owning parts of high-quality client deliverables or solutions.
• Leading client meetings, interviews and/or workshops.
• Supporting complex transformation projects.
• Experience in taking ownership of Solution Architecture.
• Data and AI Strategic Roadmaps.
• Data Cataloguing.
• Data and AI Governance.
• Data Workflow Optimisation.
• Defining and Building Business Insight Solutions.

Skills:

·  Leadership

What you can expect from us:

Together, as owners, let’s turn meaningful insights into action.

Life at CGI is rooted in ownership, teamwork, respect and belonging. Here, you’ll reach your full potential because…

You are invited to be an owner from day 1 as we work together to bring our Dream to life. That’s why we call ourselves CGI Partners rather than employees. We benefit from our collective success and actively shape our company’s strategy and direction.

Your work creates value. You’ll develop innovative solutions and build relationships with teammates and clients while accessing global capabilities to scale your ideas, embrace new opportunities, and benefit from expansive industry and technology expertise.

You’ll shape your career by joining a company built to grow and last. You’ll be supported by leaders who care about your health and well-being and provide you with opportunities to deepen your skills and broaden your horizons.

Come join our team—one of the largest IT and business consulting services firms in the world.