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About the Role

As a Domain Expert for Data & AI Strategy, you will help clients leverage data, analytics, and AI to enhance business outcomes, public services, and operational performance. You will serve as a trusted advisor to senior stakeholders, lead high-impact consulting engagements, support business development, and contribute to building a strong internal community of practice.

Responsibilities

• Lead Data & AI strategy engagements for public-sector and regulated-industry clients.
• Facilitate senior stakeholder workshops with executives, boards, SROs, CDOs, CIOs, CTOs, transformation directors, operational leaders and service owners.
• Assess organizational maturity across data, AI, analytics, governance, technology, operating model, people, process, adoption and value realisation.
• Identify, assess and prioritise Data & AI use cases across operational efficiency, service improvement, decision support, automation, fraud/error reduction, workforce productivity and customer/citizen experience.
• Develop business cases, investment narratives, benefits maps, value cases, KPIs, OKRs and transformation roadmaps.
• Advise on technology strategy at decision level, including build/buy/partner options, platform direction, interoperability, supplier risk, lock-in, scalability and AI readiness.
• Help clients avoid disconnected pilots by defining realistic routes from experimentation to scaled delivery.
• Shape discovery, alpha, proof-of-concept, mobilisation and transformation programme approaches.
• Support sales and bid teams by developing Data & AI strategy offers, proposal content, client presentations and account growth ideas.
• Mentor consultants in strategic advisory skills, structured problem solving, executive communication, business case development and benefits-led consulting.

Requirements

• 8+ years’ experience in Data & AI strategy, digital transformation, technology advisory, business consulting, data-led change or large-scale transformation.
• Evidence of measurable impact from previous programmes or projects.
• Experience acting as a trusted advisor to senior stakeholders in consulting, public sector, regulated industries or large complex organisations.
• Experience developing data strategies, AI strategies, transformation roadmaps, business cases or investment cases.
• Strong understanding of Data & AI capabilities, including analytics, AI/ML, GenAI, data platforms, data governance, architecture and adoption considerations.
• Experience prioritising use cases based on value, feasibility, risk, organisational readiness and strategic alignment.
• Experience working with sales, account or bid teams to shape offers, proposals or client opportunities.
• Experience contributing to communities of practice, professional development, knowledge-sharing or internal capability building.
• Experience working in highly regulated environments where governance, security, compliance, operational risk and auditability matter.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to turn ambiguity into clear options, recommendations and decisions.
• Experience with HM Treasury Green Book, Better Business Cases, MSP, Agile delivery, TOGAF, SAFe or equivalent strategy/transformation methods.
• Experience advising on Microsoft Fabric, Azure, AWS, Google Cloud, Databricks, Snowflake, Microsoft Copilot or enterprise data platforms.
• Experience building new consulting propositions or scaling a consulting capability.
• Experience working in multi-supplier, client-side advisory or delivery assurance environments.
• Experience contributing to thought leadership, conference material, market insights or executive briefings.
• Must have or be willing to go through Security Clearance.

Skills

• Data & AI strategy development
• Executive advisory and board-level communication
• Business case and value case development
• Data and AI maturity assessment
• Use-case discovery and prioritisation
• Benefits realisation and impact measurement
• Transformation roadmap design
• Technology strategy and supplier option assessment
• Strategic workshop design and facilitation
• Public-sector and regulated-industry advisory

Location

• UK-based
• Hybrid working

Work Type

• Hybrid working

Experience Level

• Senior consultant
• 8+ years’ experience

Salary/Compensations

• £80,000–£120,000 base salary, plus bonus

Benefits

• Autonomy to develop and grow your skills and experience
• Be part of exciting project work that is making a difference in society
• Strong, inspiring and thought-provoking leadership
• A supportive and collaborative environment
• Development access to LinkedIn Learning, a management development programme and training
• 24/7 Confidential employee assistance programme
• Social events including Breakfast Tuesdays, Thirsty Thursdays and Pizza on the last Thursday of each month
• Commitment to charitable causes
• 25 days a year time off
• Pension Salary Exchange Scheme with 4% employer contribution and 5% employee contribution
• Life Assurance of 4 times base salary
• Non-contributory Private Medical Insurance (spouse and dependants included)
• Non-contributory Worldwide Travel Insurance (spouse and dependants included)

About the Company

• Methods is a £100M+ IT Services Consultancy who has partnered with a range of central government departments and agencies to transform the way the public sector operates in the UK.
• Established over 30 years ago and UK-based, we apply our skills in transformation, delivery, and collaboration from across the Methods Group, to create end-to-end business and technical solutions that are people-centred, safe, and designed for the future.
• Our human touch sets us apart from other consultancies, system integrators and software houses - with people, technology, and data at the heart of who we are, we believe in creating value and sustainability through everything we do for our clients, staff, communities, and the planet.
• We support our clients in the success of their projects while working collaboratively to share skill sets and solve problems.
• At Methods we have fun while working hard; we are not afraid of making mistakes and learning from them.
• Predominantly focused on the public-sector, Methods is now building a significant private sector client portfolio.
• Methods was acquired by the Alten Group in early 2022. Alten is a global engineering firm with approximately 57,000 employees specializing in engineering and IT services.