Senior Data Technology Consultant

Category: Business Consulting, Strategy and Digital Transformation
Main location: United Kingdom, UK Wide - Various, UK Wide - Various
Position ID: J0324-2140
Employment Type: Full Time

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.
CGI was recognised in the Sunday Times Best Places to Work List 2023 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.

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.
This role can be based from any of our 19 UK based offices, but this is a hybrid role where you can also work from home. We expect you to travel 1-2 days per week to CGI/client site (on average).

Your future duties and responsibilities:

As a Senior Data Technology Consultant you will be a highly experienced, potentially on the client side, consultancy side or both, with a background in data driven organisational change. We’re looking for proven capability through working for a large-scale organisation, and with a track-record in delivering strategic data technology projects. You will likely have been a data technician who has moved into a more managerial or advisory role and will be passionate about driving efficiencies across the data lifecycle.
You will understand critical data handling considerations from a technology perspective and be conversant with both legacy and cloud-based data technologies. You will be familiar and ideally hold certifications with AWS and Azure data tooling and understand Data Lake, Data Warehouse and Lakehouse concepts.
You will have the ability to deliver high quality data consulting services to meet clients’ needs which requires presentation skills and translating complex concepts into simple language. You will support the development and growth of our high-performing business consulting team to surpass their current strong capabilities, so that we continue to bring cutting-edge thinking and consistent high-quality services to our clients.
The successful candidate must demonstrate experience in:
• Advising on data architecture solutions and design
• Owning parts of high-quality client deliverables or solutions
• Leading client meetings, interviews and/or workshops
• Supporting complex transformation projects
The ideal candidate may also demonstrate experience in one or more of the following areas:
• Data and AI Strategic Roadmap
• Data Blueprint
• Data and AI Governance
• Data Workflow Assessment
• Defining and Building Business Insight Solutions
CGI consultants have opportunities to develop various capabilities across pre-sales support, proposition development, team collaboration, partnership liaison, financial management and commercial models (cost and pricing, contractual terms & conditions, IP protection).

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.