Data Strategy and Management Consultant (Consultant to Manager, Financial Services)

Data Strategy and Management Consultants (Consultant to Manager)

About

About Baringa:

We set out to build the world’s most trusted consulting firm – creating lasting impact for clients and pioneering a positive, people-first way of working. We work with everyone from FTSE 100 names to bright new start-ups, in every sector.

You’ll find us collaborating shoulder-to-shoulder with our clients, from the big picture right down to the detail: helping them define their strategy, deliver complex change, spot the right commercial opportunities, manage risk, or bring their purpose and sustainability goals to life. Our clients love how we get to know what makes their organisations tick – slotting seamlessly into their teams and being proudly geeky about solving their challenges.

We have hubs in Europe, the US, Asia and Australia, and we work all around the world - from a wind farm in Wyoming to a boardroom in Berlin. Find us wherever there's a challenge to be tackled and an impact to be made.

Our Data, AI, Solutions & Engineering practice are looking for an experienced Data Strategy and Management consultants to join the team.

Our Data, AI, Solutions & Engineering team loves helping our clients solve their complex problems with data, by developing practical and high-impact data strategies; designing and implementing data operating models; creating actionable insights; embedding machine learning solutions; or building data platforms. We bring the right team and skills on the table and can offer deep expertise across Data Strategy, Data Science & Engineering, Data Visualisation, Data Management, Data Architecture and Software Development.

We have had some great achievements this year; we were recognised as Data Consultancy of the Year 2025 at the British Data Awards; we won a top ten spot in the UK for the thirteenth successive year by the Great Place to Work Institute; and we are been recognised for our leadership on workplace gender equality by most recently by being awarded 2nd place in ‘Best Workplaces for Women 2023’ and Baringa is a signed signatory of the TechTalent Charter.

What You Will Be Doing

You will be using your experience to help our clients solve their most important data challenges. You will also play an active role to support the growth of our team, helping build the skills needed to solve our client’s challenges. Depending on the level, you may be a part of our leadership team, shaping the direction of the practice, growing the business and leading our people.

Typical Engagements Include

• Developing tailored data and AI Strategies, which meet specific client needs and drive transformational value
• Driving the delivery of data and AI strategies, including building teams, driving the delivery of value-focused use cases, and delivering data solutions - from data sourcing through to value delivery
• Designing practical data & AI governance, data management frameworks and Data Architectures for clients, aligned to business needs
• Performing maturity assessments across our clients’ data management, analytics and AI capabilities, to identify areas for improvement and opportunities to drive value
• Delivering targeted uplift of data and AI capabilities in a way that delivers business benefit, including improved governance and management of metadata, AI models, lineage, data quality, master data, reference data, data architecture, reporting and AI solutions
• Implementing agile data management delivery approaches, to iteratively deliver value whilst building capability
• Driving the remediation of data quality and other root cause issues related to data
• Working with technology teams and data engineers to automate data management activities and to integrate data governance into data pipelines and Cloud platforms as code
  
  

Skills

Your skills and experience

We are looking for an individual with experience in a selection of the following areas:

• Previous consulting and/or industry experience in data strategy and in the practical delivery of data management, analytics and AI capabilities and solutions
• Demonstrated understanding of the principles, practices and frameworks in data strategy, data governance and wider data management competencies (e.g., data quality, metadata management, master data management, data modelling, data standards, reporting, AI)
• Practical understanding of risks and controls for data management, AI and privacy
• Previous experience embedding operational data governance, data management, reporting and AI capabilities, in complex and diverse environments
• Real world experience delivering data quality management and data profiling
• Broad understanding of database designs, schema designs and data mapping
• Experience with tools supporting data management (governance, quality, observability, analytics)
• Excellent written and verbal communication, with the ability to develop clear requirements and specifications and communicate complex technical information to both technical and non-technical colleagues
• Excellent people skills – creating, developing and maintaining relationships
• Excellent analytical, conceptual and problem-solving abilities
• We will consider anyone with relevant experience or relevant degrees, such as information management, computer science, mathematics, etc.
  
  

We Are Also Particularly Looking For People With

• Financial Services experience, including experience in industries such as Retail Banking, Capital Markets, Investment Banking, Private Banking, Wealth Management, Insurance
• Experience working with regulatory requirements and engaging with regulatory programmes would be preferable, for example with the PRA, FCA, ICO, Fed, OCC, and others
• Experience with key regulations such as BCBS239, IFRS9, COREP, FINREP, Basel regulations, data protection regulations (e.g. GDPR), Insurance Regulations such as Solvency II, AI regulations (e.g. EU AI Act)
• Experience with industry standards and frameworks such as EDMC DCAM, CDMC, DAMA DMBoK, RDARF, and ERMFs and control environments in large global organisations
  
  

We recruit individuals at all levels based on merit. Don’t worry about ‘fitting into a quota’ – if you’ve got the skills we are after we would love to talk to you.

What a Career At Baringa Will Give You

Putting People First.

Benefits

Baringa is a People First company and wellbeing is at the forefront of our culture. We recognise the importance of work-life balance and flexible working and provide our staff amazing benefits. Some of these benefits include:

• Generous Annual Leave Policy: We recognise everyone needs a well-deserved break. We provide our employees with 5 weeks of annual leave, fully available at the start of each year. In addition to this, we have introduced our 5-Year Recharge benefit which allows all employees an additional 2 weeks of paid leave after 5 years continuous service.
• Flexible Working: We know that the ‘ideal’ work-life balance will vary from person to person and change at different stages of our working lives. To accommodate this, we have implemented a hybrid working policy and introduced more flexibility around taking unpaid leave.
• Corporate Responsibility Days: Our world is important to us, so all our employees get 3 every year to help social and environmental causes and increase our impact on the communities that mean the most to us.
• Wellbeing Fund: We want to encourage all employees to take charge and prioritise their own wellbeing. We’ve introduced our annual People Fund to support this by offering every individual a fund to support and manage their wellbeing through an activity of their choice.
• Career Progression: No one develops at the same pace. That’s why we have quarterly rather than annual promotion reviews. We don’t have any quotas: if you’re ready and delivering at the right level, you’ll get that promotion.
• Profit Share Scheme: All employees participate in the Baringa Group Profit Share Scheme so everyone has a stake in the company’s success.
  
  

Diversity and Inclusion.

We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We believe that creating an environment where everyone feels a sense of belonging is central to our culture and that diversity is paramount to driving creativity, innovation, and value for our clients and for our people.

An award-winning workplace.

You can be a part of our ‘Great Place to Work’ – with our commitment to women and well-being in the workplace for all.

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to see some of our recent awards and how we’ve achieved this.

Using business as a force for good.

We maintain high standards of environmental performance and transparency, which can be seen through our commitment to Net Zero with our SBTI-verified Scope 1, 2 and 3 emissions reduction targets and our support of the Better Business Act. We report our progress publicly and ensure that we are also externally assessed and scored through organisations like CDP and EcoVadis - helping us to continually identify where we can improve.

We have a long legacy of supporting the communities in which we work, and offer a variety of ways to contribute, by putting people first and creating impact that lasts. Our Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) agenda is about giving back to the communities in which we live and work by sharing our skills, talent and time. In essence, we aim to empower and encourage everyone in the firm to contribute to the things we care about, and support registered charities and organisations with a clear social or environmental purpose to increase the positive impact they can have.

Join us

All applications will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, ethnicity, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, nationality, disability, age, faith or social background. We do not filter applications by university background and encourage those who have taken alternative educational and career paths to apply. We would like to actively encourage applications from those who identify with less represented and minority groups. We operate an inclusive recruitment process, ensuring reasonable adjustments where needed. Please contact a member of our Recruitment Team to discuss further.