Job Title: Data Consultant

Location: London

Working Pattern: Hybrid

Contract Type: Permanent

Overview

Our client is a high-growth analytics consultancy engaging with organisations to develop best in breed Planning, Integration, Data Warehousing, BI and Automation solutions to companies that include global insurers, housebuilders, universities, manufacturers and prominent retailers. Whether they are looking to increase their financial resilience, enhance their operational efficiency or make the smartest decisions possible, our client sits alongside its customers to help them achieve their goals.

Role Description

They are hiring a Data Consultant within their Data and Analytics Practice who ideally has experience with Informatica. Reporting to one of the Data and Analytics Team Leaders, you will use your interest in technology to translate customers’ business strategy into target state data solutions. You will work as part of a team to build innovate solutions, providing technical delivery capability.

They provide their customers with a broad set of solutions that encompass data modelling, integration, reporting and data warehousing. They partner with a number of technology providers and cloud systems, including Microsoft, Informatica and IBM. Their projects will provide experience across Microsoft and accredited specialist of the Informatica Intelligent Data Management Cloud, designing integrations and data solutions with Informatica at the heart of the project.

Role Responsibilities

• Develop customer solutions based on Informatica IDMC for data integration, application integration, data quality, data governance and master data management.
• Participate in requirements gathering workshops and scoping and design sessions with customers.
• Work with subject matter experts within customer organisations to understand and translate business processes into technical requirements and design documents.
• Provide guidance to internal and customer teams, adhering to design principles, standards, and best practices.
• Document complex solution architectures from concept through to deployment and customer handover.
• Provide thought leadership on data processes and technologies, showing how these could improve customer solutions and internal processes.
• Identify key functional risks and issues throughout projects, helping to devise mitigation plans with the team.
• Deliver proactive guidance to the development teams for continuous process improvement and process adherence.

Essential Skills and Experience

• Experience delivering enterprise data solutions that integrate source systems through a mixture of API, operational data stores and data warehouses.
• Data modelling experience for operational data stores and data warehouses.
• Ability to design architecture and scalable patterns to support both batch and real-time solutions using data integration platforms.
• Write clear technical documentation and present to technical team for knowledge handover and onboarding to projects.
• Understanding of complete data analytics process, from source systems to BI and analytics tools.
• BI and data exploration tools experience, such as Cognos and Microsoft Power BI.
• Working knowledge of Python or other scripting technologies.
• Ability to collaborate with diverse customer and technical delivery teams, communicating technical concepts and design ideas clearly to team members.

Desirable Skills and Experience

• Worked in a customer facing consultancy role.
• Understanding of Information Security and Data Governance frameworks.
• Designed and implemented Data Quality, Governance or Master Data Management solutions.
• Worked in house building, construction, insurance, retail, or manufacturing sectors.
• Experience with implementing solutions utilising microservices architectures.
• Knowledge of DevOps methodology and the implementation of supporting technologies such as GIT.