Digital Senior Director - Data & Analytics, Financial Services

Huron Consulting; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 180,000 - 280,000; Full time

Job summary

Huron Consulting is seeking a Senior Director to lead Data & Analytics for Financial Services Digital, owning data modernization and AI-readiness across banking, capital markets, insurance, and wealth clients. The role bridges advisory with data transformation and master data management, managing the full account lifecycle from business development through deployment.

The leader drives data strategy, sets offerings, and manages client relationships, pipelines, and revenue for FS data

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in business, computer science, data/analytics, or related field; advanced degree preferred.
• 10+ years in data & analytics, digital, or consulting, including building and leading data, analytics, and AI capabilities.
• Demonstrated P&L ownership and/or revenue origination and growth as a client-facing partner or leader.
• Fluency in modern data platforms, governance, MDM, regulatory data, and AI/ML including generative AI.
• C-suite advisory and executive relationship management experience.

Responsibilities

• Define and own Huron's FS data strategy offering: data platform modernization, governance, MDM, and AI/ML infrastructure.
• Architect and deliver data platforms supporting AML, KYC, fraud, and regulatory reporting.
• Develop FS data viewpoints: regulatory data lineage, BCBS 239, data mesh, real-time analytics.
• Serve as senior data architecture lead on cross-capability engagements.
• Build platform-partner relationships across hyperscalers and data vendors to drive go-to-market.
• Originate demand across Advisory, alliance partners, and direct client relationships.
• Own origination, pipeline, and opportunity qualification for the Data & Analytics domain.
• Embed data and AI-readiness across Oracle, Workday, GenAI/Automation, and CX teams.
• Provide market-facing thought leadership and industry point of view.

Skills

Data & Analytics

AI/ML

Data governance

MDM

Executive relationships

P&L ownership

Education

Bachelor's degree

Advanced degree preferred

Tools

Oracle

Workday

GenAI/Automation

Cloud platforms

Job description

Huron is a global consultancy that collaborates with clients to drive strategic growth, ignite innovation and navigate constant change. Through a combination of strategy, expertise and creativity, we help clients accelerate operational, digital and cultural transformation, enabling the change they need to own their future.

You'll help banks, asset management and insurance organizations own their future by helping them to transform and create new business models to meet changing customer needs and drive sustainability.

Join our team as the expert you are now and create your future.

Huron's Digital practice provides advisement and delivers solutions that help organizations manage and optimize their business processes to improve financial performance, operational efficiency, and client experience. With expertise in full-service, end-to-end solutions for enterprise resource planning, enterprise performance management, human capital management, customer relationship management and experience, financial crime and compliance, regulatory reporting, business analytics, and automation, Huron helps clients across industries drive results and gain competitive advantage. Our comprehensive offerings include organizational improvements and software consulting leveraging digital and cloud configurations, and managed services. Huron provides vendor specific services for Oracle, Workday, Salesforce, Amazon Web Services, UIPath, Blue Prism, and many others. Huron is a leader across all our partner platforms. Our team hold numerous certifications on vendor products.

In this role, the Senior Director leads Huron's Data & Analytics capability for Financial Services Digital – owning data modernization and AI-readiness across banking, capital markets, insurance, and wealth clients, and shaping and winning data-intensive pursuits. This leader bridges Advisory relationships into data transformation, master data management, and partner-originated sales, operating across the full account lifecycle from business development through solution deployment.

As a market-facing leader, the Senior Director owns a portfolio of clients and projects, leads larger data and analytics implementations, and drives business development as an industry, data, and technology subject matter expert. The role owns origination, pipeline, and qualified revenue for the Data & Analytics domain, sets the FS data strategy offering, and serves as the senior data architecture authority on cross-capability engagements. The position carries full client, team, and practice management responsibility, with significant onsite client contact and weekly travel.

This role is within the Digital practice with a specialization in the Financial Services Industry.

Key Responsibilities

• Define and own Huron's FS data strategy offering: data platform modernization, data governance, master data management (MDM), and AI/ML infrastructure across banking, insurance, and wealth clients.
• Architect and deliver data platforms supporting AML, KYC, fraud, and regulatory reporting across leading financial-crime, risk, and regulatory data technologies.
• Develop differentiated FS data points of view: regulatory data lineage, BCBS 239 compliance, data mesh for financial institutions, and real-time analytics for risk and treasury.
• Serve as the senior data architecture lead on cross-capability engagements where data quality is critical.
• Build and expand platform-partner relationships across hyperscalers, cloud data platforms, and specialized FS data and analytics vendors to drive joint go-to-market and co-sell pipeline.
• Originate demand across multiple channels – Advisory, alliance partners, and direct client relationships – and convert it into data transformation and MDM engagements.
• Own origination, pipeline, and opportunity qualification for the Data & Analytics domain; manage pursuit cadence, proposals, and pricing.
• Embed data and AI-readiness as a cross-domain accelerator across the Oracle, Workday, GenAI/Automation, and Customer Experience capability teams.
• Provide market-facing thought leadership – points of view, benchmarks, and industry events – that position Huron as an authority in FS data and analytics.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in business, computer science, data/analytics, or a related field; advanced degree preferred.
• 10+ years in data & analytics, digital, or consulting, including building and leading data, analytics, and AI capabilities AND/OR 10+ years in the Financial Services industry including banking, capital markets, insurance, asset and wealth management, payments, and fintech.
• Demonstrated P&L ownership and/or revenue origination and growth as a client-facing partner, principal, or practice lead.
• Core fluency in modern data platforms, data governance and MDM, regulatory data (BCBS 239, data lineage), and AI/ML including generative and agentic AI.
• C-suite advisory and executive relationship management experience (CDO, CAO, CFO, CIO/CTO).
• Full sales-c