Be part of a global consulting powerhouse, partnering with clients on their most critical strategic transformations. We are Wavestone, energetic and solution‑driven experts who focus on people as well as performance and growth. We share a deep desire to make a positive impact. We are an ambitious firm with worldwide reach and an ever‑expanding portfolio of clients, topics and projects. Recognized by the Financial Times as one of the UK’s leading management consultants 2025, Wavestone UK boasts a team of 200 employees and aims to grow rapidly in the coming years. Our services span business and digital transformation, cybersecurity, operational improvement, risk advisory and IT advisory. We provide end‑to‑end expert advice to clients across industries with a particular focus on Insurance, Financial Services and Life Sciences, helping them transform into modern, innovative organisations that thrive sustainably. In 2025 we received the UK’s Great Place to Work accreditation and have been recognised in Best Workplaces categories: Large Organisations, Wellbeing, Development and Best Workplace for Women.
Are you a true team player, living strong values? Are you a passionate learner, aiming to grow every day? Are you a driven go‑getter tackling challenges head‑on? Then you could be the right fit for you. Join Wavestone and thrive in an empowering, collaborative environment full of opportunities to turn today’s challenges into tomorrow’s solutions.
Job Description
Wavestone is seeking a Data Architect or Data Engineer to support the design and delivery of innovative data solutions for clients operating in complex, regulated environments, including Banking, Insurance, Wealth & Asset Management and Life Sciences. In this client‑facing role you will work with business and technology stakeholders to define data architectures, build scalable data platforms and pipelines, and establish strong data governance practices. You will help organisations unlock the value of their data by enabling advanced analytics, AI and data‑driven decision‑making while contributing to the successful delivery of large‑scale transformation programmes.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead and deliver complex data transformation programmes, defining data strategies, designing enterprise data architectures and implementing modern cloud data platforms. Provide architectural leadership across delivery teams and translate business requirements into scalable technical solutions.
- Advise on enterprise data strategies, target operating models, governance frameworks and modern architecture patterns including data lakes, data warehouses, lakehouses and data mesh. Conduct architecture assessments and provide vendor‑independent guidance on platform and technology choices.
- Design scalable data pipelines, integration frameworks and cloud‑native data solutions that enable trusted, high‑quality data across the organisation. Support advanced analytics, machine learning, AI and GenAI use cases.
- Act as a trusted advisor and subject‑matter expert during sales and pre‑sales activities, contributing to proposals, RFP responses and identifying opportunities to grow Wavestone’s Data & AI footprint.
- Contribute to the evolution of Wavestone’s data propositions by bringing innovative perspectives on data architecture, cloud platforms, governance and AI‑ready data ecosystems. Support thought leadership, methodologies, accelerators and market‑facing insights.
- Coach, mentor and share knowledge to grow the Data & AI community. Support development of consultants and engineers, promote best practices and build internal capability.
- Maintain expertise by staying at the forefront of developments in data architecture, engineering, cloud technologies, analytics and AI enablement. Bring emerging trends into client engagements and internal initiatives.
Qualifications
Core Skills & Experience
- Significant experience in consulting, client‑facing roles or equivalent industry experience delivering data engineering and architecture solutions.
- Strong understanding of data engineering principles, including pipeline design, ETL/ELT, ingestion patterns, orchestration and integration approaches.
- Experience designing or governing modern data architectures (lakehouse, warehouse, data mesh, data fabric).
- Hands‑on experience with one or more cloud data ecosystems:
- Azure (Data Factory, Synapse, Fabric, ADLS, Databricks)
- AWS (Glue, Redshift, EMR)
- GCP (BigQuery, Dataflow)
- Databricks (Spark/PySpark)
- Snowflake (SQL, Snowpark, performance tuning)
Desirable Experience
- Strong SQL and/or Python capability and familiarity with tools such as dbt, Git, CI/CD or MLOps frameworks.
- Understanding of BI/visualisation principles (Power BI/Tableau) and downstream analytics requirements.
Additional Information
- Elevate client satisfaction by impacting high‑growth business across US, UK and Europe. Shape culture, enhance value propositions and foster business development.
- Nurture employee growth with Wavestone horizon career path, competitive compensation, transparent salary policy, tailored training and internal mobility.
- Embrace a collective mindset within a barrier‑free, collaborative team. Engage in vibrant people culture through regular events, meetings and committees.
- Experience ethical responsibility with flexible work options, strong CSR commitment and a culture promoting work‑life balance and time‑off.
Benefits
- Competitive salary and bonus scheme.
- Income protection insurance, 5 % company pension, private health and dental cover, life insurance and company share scheme.
- Additional flexible benefits you can select from such as additional holidays, additional pension contributions, subsidised gym, subscriptions to wellbeing apps, Netflix and retail vouchers.
- 25 days annual leave.
Travel and Location
- Employees are not required to work in a Wavestone office on a full‑time basis but must commute to the office or client site when necessary. Wavestone UK office is in the heart of London.
- Mandatory 2–3 days per week in the Wavestone office or client site during probation.
Diversity and Inclusion
At Wavestone, we celebrate diversity and inclusion. We have a strong global CSR agenda and an active Diversity & Inclusion committee with Gender Equality, LGBTQ+, Disability Inclusion, Social Mobility and Anti‑Racism networks. If you need flexibility, assistance or an adjustment to our recruitment process due to a disability or impairment, please reach out to us to discuss this.
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