Data Consultant

About BAE Systems Digital Intelligence

BAE Systems Digital Intelligence is home to 4,500 digital, cyber and intelligence experts. We work collaboratively across 10 countries to collect, connect and understand complex data, so that governments, nation states, armed forces and commercial businesses can unlock digital advantage in the most demanding environments.

The Data Consultant Role

As a Data Consultant, you will define and deliver a client as information management and exploitation strategy to transform the way an organisation derives value from its data assets, whilst securing and managing them appropriately. The Data Consultant has expertise in data exploitation, data solutions, data management, problem solving and business consulting and analysis. This puts them in a position to advise client organisations on data-driven transformation. You will focus on the people, process, business change, requirements and planning aspects of data challenges, but will have a good high-level understanding of approaches, techniques and tools in data architecture, data solution delivery and data science.

This role works under broad direction, often self-initiated, and you will be fully responsible for meeting allocated technical and/or group objectives. You will analyse, design, plan, execute and evaluate work to time, cost and quality targets. You will establish milestones and have a significant role in the assignment of tasks and/or responsibilities. You will influence the organisation, customers, suppliers, partners and peers on the contribution of your specialism, making decisions which impact the success of assigned work, including results, deadlines and budget. You will have significant influence over the allocation and management of resources appropriate to given assignments. Leading user/customer and group collaboration throughout all stages of work is crucial to ensure users’ needs are met consistently through each work stage. You will build appropriate and effective business relationships across the organisation and with customers, suppliers and partners, and create and support collaborative ways of working across your group/area of responsibility, facilitating collaboration between stakeholders who have diverse objectives.

You will implement and execute policies aligned to strategic plans, performing an extensive range and variety of complex technical and/or professional work activities. This will involve undertaking work which requires the application of fundamental principles in a wide and often unpredictable range of contexts. You will engage and coordinate with subject matter experts to resolve complex issues as they relate to customer/organisational requirements, and understand the relationships between your own specialism and customer/organisational requirements.

Core Duties & Responsibilities

• Understand and distil business challenges in complex environments, providing thought leadership.
• Develop and action data strategies and roadmaps, for example through undertaking maturity assessments and user needs analysis to define a vision and articulate the steps to achieving it.
• Consider business and cultural change aspects alongside technical data challenges.
• Define and support the implementation of an organisation as data governance framework.
• Define the operating model required to support an organisation as data vision.
• Develop relationships with senior client stakeholders and represent their interests.
• Translate business goals into actionable plans.
• Communicate complex data challenges and strategies to senior client stakeholders and delivery teams.
• Take responsibility for understanding client requirements and user needs, delivering analysis and problem resolution. Identifies, evaluates and recommends options.
• Manage the investigation of corporate data requirements. Coordinates the application of data analysis and data modelling techniques, based upon a detailed understanding of corporate information requirements, in order to establish, modify or maintain data structures and their associated components (entity descriptions, relationship descriptions, attribute definitions).
• Seek to fully address client needs, enhancing the capabilities and effectiveness of solutions by ensuring that they are properly understood and appropriately exploited.
• Provide well-informed advice, typically on more than one topic, taking steps to ensure that it is properly understood and appropriately exploited.
• Work under the supervision of and provide support to seniors in the analysis and documentation of strategic data options and direction.
• Draft and maintain policies, standards and procedures for information and/or data governance.
• Review information and data systems for compliance against organisational policies, legislation and risk. Makes recommendations for implementing any required changes.
• Apply in-depth knowledge of a broad range of industry-wide modelling techniques. Advises on the choice of techniques and approach influencing customers accordingly.

How BAE Systems Digital Intelligence Supports You

• Work-life balance is important; you can work around core hours with flexible and part-time working.
• As many of our customers work predominantly in the office, we expect all of our staff to work at least 3 days per week in the office.
• You’ll get 25 days holiday a year and the option to buy/sell and carry over from the year before.
• Our flexible benefits package includes private medical and dental insurance, a competitive pension scheme, cycle to work scheme, taste cards and more.
• You’ll have a dedicated Career Manager to help you develop your career and guide you on your journey through BAE.
• You’ll be part of our company bonus scheme.
• You are welcome to join any/all of our Diversity and Support groups. These groups cover everything from gender diversity to mental health and wellbeing.
• Security Clearance is required for this vacancy. If you are not currently Security Cleared, you will need to be eligible for this and willing to go through the process.

About Our Team & Company

Our people are what differentiates us; they are resourceful, innovative and dedicated. We have a mix of generalists and specialists and recognise that this diversity contributes to our success. We recognise the benefits of forming teams from a mix of disciplines, which allows us to come up with cutting-edge, high-quality solutions. Our breadth of work across the Public Sector provides diverse opportunities for our people to develop their careers in new areas of expertise and with new clients.

You’ll be part of a big company, but we try to create a culture that feels like a small one. The work will stretch you and be challenging, but we encourage a healthy work-life balance. Most of all, we know teams who work well together also perform well. We’ll do everything we can to ensure you have fun at work, and in social activities outside of it whether that’s virtually or in person, as conditions allow.

You will be joining our National Security business which is the largest area within our UK business. Our mission is to be the most trusted partner for our National Security clients in delivery of their core mission. At the end of 2020 we had over 700 employees working across our security and law enforcement customers. This year, we are looking to build on our success and grow even further by recruiting over 100 new members to our team.

We have a rich history of working within National Security. In fact, we have over 40 years’ experience of delivering advice and solutions to our customers in this sector, supporting them in carrying out their vital missions.

BAE Systems Digital Intelligence helps nations, governments and businesses around the world defend themselves against cyber crime, reduce their risk in the connected world, comply with regulation, and transform their operations. We’re a consultancy and products business and employ smart, motivated individuals who work together across a range of projects and products. You’ll get to work on a variety of different systems for different customers throughout your career with us. We’re passionate about Diversity and Inclusion in our workforce and the people you’ll work with will reflect this. We employ over 4,000 people across 18 countries in the Americas, APAC, UK and EMEA.

Life at BAE Systems Digital Intelligence embraces Hybrid Working. This means you and your colleagues may be working in different locations, such as from home, another BAE Systems office or client site, some or all of the time, and work might be going on at different times of the day. By embracing technology, we can interact, collaborate and create together, even when we’re working remotely from one another. Hybrid Working allows for increased flexibility in when and where we work, helping us to balance our work and personal life more effectively, and enhance well-being.

Diversity and inclusion are integral to the success of BAE Systems Digital Intelligence. We are proud to have an organisational culture where employees with varying perspectives, skills, life experiences and backgrounds – the best and brightest minds – can work together to achieve excellence and realise individual and organisational potential.

As a member of the Government business unit, you will defend the connected world and ensure the protection of nations. We all have a role to play in defending our clients, and this is yours.

Key skills/competency

• Data Strategy Development
• Information Management
• Data Governance
• Business Consulting
• Stakeholder Management
• Data Exploitation
• Requirements Analysis
• Data Modelling
• Change Management
• Strategic Planning