Principal - Data Strategist

Who You’ll Work With

Our Data teams help organisations of all kinds redefine what’s possible, give shape to the future—and get there. We focus on high-impact projects, meeting our clients where they are to uncover business needs and deliver results. Our teams go beyond the expected to help clients move confidently through ambiguity and risk and drive more transformative outcomes.

As a modern technology company, we've never met a technical challenge we didn't like. We enable our clients to learn from their data, create incredible digital experiences, and make the most of new technologies. We blend design, engineering, and analytics expertise to build the future.

What You’ll Do

As a member of the Data Strategy team, your objective is to align Slalom's clients’ business strategies with their data initiatives, crafting a compelling value case for data utilisation, and establish success metrics to measure the impact of implemented strategies, ensuring they deliver tangible outcomes in line with their organisational objectives.

You will define the way our clients use data to drive their business. You understand that data isn’t only about using the latest technologies, it is about creating a culture which enables and encourages the use of data and AI, ensuring everyone understands their value. You are keen to listen and understand, comfortable with ambiguity and able to work in environments with complex stakeholder relationships. By assessing the current state, you can propose solutions which incorporate technology, ways of working, data literacy, governance, and change.

• Advise clients on establishing a data-driven culture that aligns with their strategic business objectives, fostering an environment where data underpins all facets of decision-making.
• Conduct maturity assessments, understand the current state of data and AI culture as well as define target maturity levels.
• Propose a roadmap encompassing tailored solutions and capabilities to bridge the maturity gap, integrating flexible and scalable systems, establishing reference architecture, and addressing data sharing and ethics, compliance, and data-driven decision-making.
• Optimise organisational structures and processes to support agile data and analytics efforts, ensuring a seamless flow between data collection and actionable insights.
• Collaborate with clients to execute their data and AI roadmaps, taking ownership of initiatives and guiding clients through the transformation.
• Deliver transformative solutions to clients that are aligned to industry best practices and provide thought leadership in the data and AI space.

What You’ll Bring

To excel as a Data Strategist within our team, you will need a blend of analytics capabilities, technical acumen and project management. Specifically, you will bring:

• Experience in building holistic data strategies which include assessing organizational outcomes and current state landscape and making functional and technical recommendations in support of determining foundational data needs.
• Profound knowledge in specific modern cloud-based architectures, tools, and processes and capability to prioritise, build, and drive alignment of 2–3-year roadmaps, including estimates of duration, cost, and effort.
• Some knowledge of Data Governance to help clients establish Data Governance Programs and define KPIs to monitor the results and effectiveness of the Data Governance initiative.
• A minimum of 7+ years working in a consulting firm and able to create proposals from ambiguity
• Have led large multi-practice projects or multiple projects as a part-time resource , with cross-functional teams to develop and evolve ideas to bring together business goals with data driven solutions
• Have experience in recommending operating models and organisational changes at divisional level and advised executive teams on the value gained with this new alignment . Also have experience in recommending and establishing data governance bodies and supporting processes
• Have collaborated with clients to identify barriers for execution of their vision and advised on ways to obtain alignment and action, aswell as driven the discipline of defining and leveraging Data & Analytics business cases
• Have participated in more than one a data transformation program (i.e., Customer 360, MDM, PIM, etc.) and helped guide a data strategy transformation program that sets direction for a cultural shift
• Have general understanding of strengths and weaknesses of all the tools used within Data & Analytics across three or more core Data & Analytics roles (Data Science, Data Quality, Data Engineer, Application Integration Engineer and Data Visualisation Specialist)
• Have inspired clients to become a Data & Analytics leading practice or innovation example

About Us

Slalom is a fiercely human consulting company focused on end-to-end business transformation enabled by technology. With 20-plus years of experience and operating in 45+ markets around the world, Slalom teams have the autonomy to move fast and do what's right for our clients, making us more personal and nimbler than traditional consulting firms. At Slalom, we offer variety, fulfilment, and balance. You can work with the world's top companies, keep up with the latest technology, flex your skills across industries, pursue your life outside of work, and spend quality time with your family. After launching our Auckland office in February 2023, we are continuing to grow, and the below role is yet another opportunity to start your journey with Slalom and help us shape the future.

Our Values

Our culture and values reflect each individual Slalomer. We are dedicated to encouraging workplace diversity and ensuring all our people, from any background can contribute to their full potential. We wish to build a team that echoes the diversity of the communities we serve, and our values are an active part of our every-day, guiding our decisions.

What keeps us here?

Our New Zealand office knows the importance of a good work/life balance. We have the freedom to be ourselves when life gets in the way. We make a big effort to bring everyone together and allow space when space is needed. We believe in helping each other thrive in work and life and are proud to invest in benefits that include holistic well-being, meaningful allowances and investment in our team’s professional, technical and personal growth. It is an exciting time to be one of our foundational members, getting involved in setting up our ‘Kiwi’ values and culture and what makes us uniquely Slalom NZ!

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