Data Principal

Salary: £100,000 - 100,000 per year

Requirements:

• We want someone who cares deeply about producing high-quality work that delivers real value.
• We want someone comfortable navigating ambiguity and solving complex problems collaboratively.
• We want strong expertise in our craft, alongside a willingness to keep learning.
• We want someone who communicates clearly and builds trust quickly with clients and teammates.
• We want someone pragmatic, adaptable, and outcome-focused.
• We want someone who enjoys sharing knowledge and helping others grow.
• We want someone who values low-ego collaboration and enjoys working as part of multidisciplinary teams.
• We want proven experience managing and inspiring teams.
• We want the ability to navigate enterprise-scale problem solving and turn challenges into opportunities.
• We want strong client-facing delivery skills and the ability to translate complex data concepts into business value.
• We want experience managing multi-vendor environments with a focus on long-term partnership.
• We want experience designing scalable architectures with a focus on delivering value.
• We want a quality-focused mindset, including championing quality assurance and performance tuning.
• We want someone who keeps up with industry standards and best practices.
• We want experience building data solutions using Microsoft Azure and/or AWS native services.
• We want development-to-production experience in Snowflake, Databricks, or Fabric.
• We want experience managing delivery with an Agile mindset.
• We want a strong understanding of the full data lifecycle, including discovery, storage, pipelines, ETL, streaming, data quality, metadata management, and analytics.
• We want experience building AI solutions in modern data platforms such as Databricks or Snowflake.
• We want familiarity with Microsoft Azure and core technologies in the AI Foundry ecosystem.
• We want understanding of AI solution patterns ranging from SLMs to intelligent agentic automation, LLM foundational models, human in the loop, and MLOps.
• We want understanding of data architecture design patterns including RAG, serverless, DWH models, data mesh, and data products.
• We want hands-on fluency in Python, R, or SQL.
• We want someone ready to jump in and provide solutions where required.

Responsibilities:

• We want you to lead the local Data and AI Practice and expand our Data capability.
• We want you to support local club leadership.
• We want you to lead on client delivery.
• We want you to shape and lead the data practice proposition in the local market.
• We want you to build on our existing data skills and capability.
• We want you to work closely with our global data practice team, your practice team, and local leadership.
• We want you to drive growth and value for our clients.
• We want you to deepen our client partnerships.
• We want you to inspire and manage teams.
• We want you to turn enterprise-scale challenges into opportunities for our clients.
• We want you to translate complex data concepts into business value.
• We want you to design systems and architectures that deliver value for both the business and users.
• We want you to ensure solutions are robust, reliable, and respected.
• We want you to champion quality assurance and performance tuning.
• We want you to build strong relationships with technology partners.
• We want you to guide teams through the full Data Product Lifecycle.
• We want you to use your technical depth to support delivery where needed.

Technologies:

• AI
• AWS
• Azure
• Databricks
• ETL
• Fabric
• Support
• LLM
• MLOps
• Python
• RAG
• SQL
• Serverless
• Snowflake
• Cloud
• Architect
• Embedded
• Excel

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We are on a mission to close the worlds tech skills gap by helping organisations navigate the future of technology through human expertise, emerging tech, and AI to deliver better outcomes faster. Since 2014, we have worked side-by-side with clients to solve complex challenges, build high-performing teams, and create lasting capability. We believe the most successful organisations combine human ingenuity and intelligent technology, and we call that the genius of the AND. Through our Guide, Build and Equip approach, we help organisations embrace change, deliver meaningful impact, and develop the skills they need to thrive. We offer a collaborative culture built around regional Clubs of no more than 80 people and Practice Areas that provide a second home for our people. Our values are Wonder, Share and Delight, and we foster curiosity, ambition, growth, client-centricity, inclusion, trust, and support. Benefits include 25 days bookable holiday, flexible Bank Holidays, a 6% employer pension contribution plus 2% from you, Aviva healthcare cover, a £1000 flexibenefit allowance, life assurance, income protection, an eye test and first pair of glasses, and generous enhanced maternity and partner leave. We are committed to equal opportunities and an inclusive hiring process.

last updated 31 week of 2026