Senior Consultant Data & AI Strategy - Operating Model

Capgemini; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a dynamic team at the forefront of data and AI transformation. As a Data & AI Operating Model Consultant, you'll collaborate with clients to design effective data strategies, ensuring they leverage data and AI to meet their business goals. This role combines strategic insight with hands-on implementation, allowing you to influence the future of organizations as they navigate the fourth industrial revolution. With a focus on ethical data practices and innovative solutions, this position offers a unique opportunity to make a significant impact in various industries. If you're passionate about data and want to drive meaningful change, this is the perfect role for you.

Benefits

Flexible working arrangements

Positive work-life balance

Diversity & Inclusion initiatives

Qualifications

• Experience in designing effective data teams and reporting structures.
• Knowledge of agile data product development and AI/MLOps methodologies.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement data & AI operating models for clients.
• Provide guidance on data capabilities across the analytics value chain.

Skills

Organisational design

Data & analytics delivery models

Business architecture

Data value chain

Data tooling

Excellent communication

Strategy development

Scaling data analytics and AI

Job description

At Capgemini Invent, we believe difference drives change. As inventive transformation consultants, we blend our strategic, creative and scientific capabilities, collaborating closely with clients to deliver cutting-edge solutions. Join us to drive transformation tailored to our client's challenges of today and tomorrow. Informed and validated by science and data. Superpowered by creativity and design. All underpinned by technology created with purpose.

Your Role

As a Data & AI Operating Model Consultant, you will play a key role in setting organisations up for the fourth industrial revolution, helping them to effectively leverage data and AI to drive business outcomes:

• You will play a central role in the designing of effective data, analytics & AI operating models, covering all components required to deliver an effective data & AI capability. You will work with our clients to define their strategic objectives, and then build a picture of the requisite data & analytical capabilities required to realise those strategic objectives.
• You will provide guidance and advisory services to clients on a wide range of data & analytics capabilities at all points of the data & analytics value chain.
• You will work with stakeholders at all levels of the organisation to assess the maturity of existing data capabilities, identifying opportunities for re-use and corresponding gaps in capability. You will overlay these findings against the strategic objective analytics to develop blueprints for an organisations operating model.
• You will work collaboratively with clients to overcome the barriers to success, utilising communication, training and persuasion to bring individuals on the journey and to equip them with the skills they need to be a part of its success. This covers the development of measures of success, driven by strategic objectives, and covers the implementation and monitoring of the new operating model.
• You will spearhead the integration of ethical and responsible data practices into operating models, ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements and ethical standards. Implement mechanisms for transparent data governance, privacy protection, and ethical AI usage to foster trust and mitigate risks associated with data-driven initiatives.
• You will contribute to the development of our practice by identifying new market opportunities, creating innovative offerings, and creating thought leadership content.

Your Profile

• Organisational design experience: you know what makes data teams effective, from data product development teams all the way through to market-leading Chief Data Offices. You understand what makes an effective reporting structure, the governance processes that manage effective teams and the skills that make up modern data teams.
• Knowledge of effective data & analytics delivery models: you have a detailed knowledge of the different delivery and deployment methodologies for data teams, such as agile data product development, AI/MLOps and AnalyticsOps. You will be able to align these methodologies with our clients’ objectives and organisational structure, ensuring data teams can be as effective and cost efficient.
• An understanding of business architecture: you understand the importance of effective alignment of data & analytics teams with existing or to-be business architecture, designing data & analytical teams to integrate seamlessly with the rest of the organisation and any relevant third parties. You have experience in the different types of operating models, understanding the respective benefits in terms of both business integration and technical & architectural alignment.
• Knowledge of the data value chain: you will be able to define and adapt the end-to-end data lifecycle from data acquisition / creation to exploitation / consumption, though to deletion / archival. You will identify where processes and workflows for data ingestion, transformation and enrichment are required, working with stakeholders to define and implement these processes and workflows as required.
• An understanding of data tooling: You will have a good understanding of the different types and purposes of data & analytical tooling and platforms available. You will be able to identify which tools are required at which points of an organisations value chain and can advise clients on which tools and platforms are most suitable to their specific requirements.
• Excellent communication: You will have an excellent track record of communicating with stakeholders from across our client organisations, being comfortable presenting to and debating with C-suite, end-users, and technical stakeholders.
• Strategy development and implementation: You have experience collaborating with clients and colleagues to define strategic goals for data and analytical capabilities. You will continually assess the operating model strategies to ensure they are aligned to business objectives and can adjust and adapt to the changing needs of our clients.
• Understanding of scaling data analytics and AI: You will understand how data analytics operations are scaled within an organisation, from the design and build of small-scale proof of values transitioning to fully automated data analytics pipelines with advanced AI and ML use cases which serve thousands of customers.

An overview of the role

You will be joining our rapidly growing Data & AI Strategy team within Capgemini Invent, where we are at the forefront of designing and building winning strategies and operating models to transform the way in which organisations across all industries and sectors leverage data & AI. We’re building a successful team of experts across the data & AI lifecycle, and we’re looking for talented people to grow our skillsets and diversity.

NEED TO KNOW

At Capgemini we don’t just believe in Diversity & Inclusion, we actively go out to making it a working reality. Driven by our core values and Active Inclusion Campaign, we build environments where you can bring you whole self to work.

We aim to build an environment where employees can enjoy a positive work-life balance. We embed hybrid working in all that we do and make flexible working arrangements the day-to-day reality for our people. All UK employees are eligible to request flexible working arrangements.

Whilst you will have London, Manchester or Glasgow as an office base location, you must be fully flexible in terms of assignment location, as these roles may involve periods of time away from home at short notice.

About Capgemini Invent

As the digital innovation, design and transformation brand of the Capgemini Group, Capgemini Invent enables CxOs to envision and shape the future of their businesses. Located in more than 36 offices and 37 creative studios around the world, it comprises a 10,000+ strong team of strategists, data scientists, product and experience designers, brand experts and technologists who develop new digital services, products, experiences and business models for sustainable growth.