Principal Data Strategist

A Data Strategist is responsible for helping our clients to create a data strategy aligned to their business strategy, that delivers value from data & AI.

**Job responsibilities**:

- Work with our client's leaders to co-create and align their defensive and offensive data strategies with their business strategy and needs
- Define and track value and outcomes delivered by the strategy, to demonstrate ongoing return on investment
- Consult on complex data programs, synchronising cross-cutting concerns, and providing client-facing leadership and guidance
- Devise and execute on an enterprise data strategy, with a focus on modern cloud native big data and analytics investments
- Guide definition and implementation of the data strategy, which includes defining technology choices (preferably cloud-based), modernisation of existing analytics technologies, closing organisational skill gaps and establishing data ownership and governance practices
- Collaborate with the delivery teams engaged in the programme, and being able to connect their work with the wider strategy
- Create an operating model and drive the required change to build an organisation that supports data mesh
- Design the roles, team structure, and skills for creating an organisation that can execute a data strategy, including capabilities in data science, data engineering, architecture, data governance, product management, and infrastructure
- Interact with clients in a variety of domains, who have a spectrum of challenging problems
- Support or drive the development and execution of Thoughtworks' go-to-market offerings and propositions
- Represent Thoughtworks and Data & AI community in various online and offline forums (events, conferences)
- Work in a dynamic, collaborative, transparent culture where your talent is valued over a role title
- Develop your career outside of the confinements of a traditional career path by focusing on what you're passionate about rather than a predetermined one-size-fits-all plan

**Job qualifications**:
**Technical skills**:

- Have the business acumen, domain experience, technology architecture and delivery experience to identify, conceptualise, prioritise and champion enterprise-wide data driven initiatives
- Ability to partner and become a trusted advisor to commercial, information and data leaders in the business
- Ability to see the value which can be created out of the customers' data
- Ability to articulate the value of modern data technology approaches to business executives and build key relationships with platform teams to ensure delivery
- You are capable of identifying, shaping and selling new business opportunities
- Understand the data lifecycle in an organisation
- Collaborate with others on developing, evolving and evangelising the data strategy
- Breadth of knowledge across data skills, such as data science, data engineering, data analysis, visualisation, data governance, and infrastructure
- Familiarity with modern data architectures, such as data mesh
- Familiarity with data & AI services from at least one major cloud provider
- Ability to guide clients on technology direction, including decisions around building, buying, or partnering
- Experience using Lean and Agile methodologies to create evolutionary roadmaps that emphasise early delivery of value
- Familiarity with change management practices and frameworks, to drive organisational transformation
- Strong problem-solving and communication skills
- Expertise in a specific domain, such as: healthcare and life sciences, financial services, retail, or public sector
- Other desirable skills include: knowledge of modern data technologies, experience in multi-cloud environments

**Other things to know**:
**L&D**:
There's no one-size-fits-all career path at Thoughtworks: however you want to develop your career is entirely up to you. But we also balance autonomy with the strength of our cultivation culture. This means your career is supported by interactive tools, numerous development programs and teammates who want to help you grow. We see value in helping each other be our best and that extends to empowering our employees in their career journeys.

**Benefits**:
We offer amazing benefits from the day you start including private medical insurance, travel insurance, income protection, critical illness, life assurance, pension scheme, personal development budget, 25 days holiday and a ride2work scheme.

**DE&I**:
We proudly, passionately and actively strive to make both Thoughtworks and our industry more representative of the communities we serve. We promote diversity in all its forms and reject discrimination and inequality. Our diversity and award winning culture inspires our thought leaders and serves to nurture and develop amazing ideas. We believe this makes us a world leading destination of choice for all technologists.

**About Thoughtworks**:
Thoughtworks is a global technology consultancy that integrates strategy, design and engineering to d