AtkinsRéalis
Strategy Consultant (Data Focused)
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Overview
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AtkinsRéalis’ Digital, Data and AI Advisory team is growing, and we are looking for experienced, enthusiastic people who can help clients make well-informed choices about their technology and data landscape. Our work brings together strategy, systems thinking, and practical technology insight to help organizations understand their digital maturity, identify opportunities and risks, and make decisions that stand up to scrutiny.
Across our key markets, clients are dealing with an explosion of information and are struggling to harness their data to meet their objectives, whether that’s improving service performance, modernising critical assets, meeting regulatory or security expectations, or planning major investment programmes. Many of these issues begin as operational, organizational, or assurance challenges, but success depends on how well data is governed, managed, shared, and applied. To strengthen our capability in this area, we are particularly interested in people with strong data management experience who can help clients build the foundations needed for better assurance, analytics, improved decision-making, and responsible adoption of AI.
We are growing our multidisciplinary team drawn from consulting, technology, and data-focused backgrounds. You may be a data strategist, information architect, digital consultant, or someone with broader experience looking to bring a stronger data lens to strategic work. Curiosity, systems thinking, and the ability to connect digital, data, and organizational context are all important, along with the ability to nurture trusted relationships with colleagues and clients.
As a Senior Strategy Consultant, you will deliver Digital, Data, and AI advisory services that turn insight into practical action. You will lead projects and workstreams that shape strategic priorities, guiding clients through decisions that balance ambition with feasibility. Your focus will be on aligning stakeholders around a shared vision and creating clear, actionable plans that deliver measurable impact. By combining analytical rigour, strategic thinking, and an understanding of clients’ operating environments, you will help clients prioritize investments and achieve outcomes that matter most to their business.
Your Role
- Leading projects and workstreams to deliver high-quality outputs, and ensuring recommendations reflect our values around inclusion, sustainability, and social value.
- Working with clients to understand how data is created, governed, and used across their organization, and identifying opportunities to improve how strategic decisions are supported by data.
- Developing data-focused strategies, visions, and roadmaps that improve data quality, strengthen governance, and support future analytics and AI initiatives.
- Developing structured business cases and providing recommendations that help clients prioritize investment in data-related initiatives.
- Applying systems thinking to uncover the digital and data implications of challenges that may initially appear operational, technical, or process-led.
- Assessing organizational operating models and supporting clients in improving data ownership, stewardship, and governance arrangements.
- Working with colleagues across advisory, markets, and technical disciplines to create approaches that link digital and data strategy to client context and practical delivery.
- Contributing to thought leadership, knowledge sharing, and capability development activities that strengthen the Digital, Data, and AI Advisory practice.
- Identifying opportunities to provide additional value to clients and supporting business development, proposals, and bid activities where appropriate.
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About You
- A naturally curious, collaborative, and practical consulting style, with the ability to understand client operating contexts and make sense of complex challenges.
- Strong consulting and stakeholder engagement skills: able to build trusted relationships across diverse stakeholder groups, influence decision-making, communicate effectively with senior stakeholders, and turn analysis into clear recommendations.
- An ability to act as a bridge between business, operational, and technical teams, translating client needs into clear data strategies, roadmaps, and practical requirements.
- Experience in data management, including data strategy, governance, stewardship, and approaches for improving organizational data capability.
- An ability to adapt and apply knowledge and experience across different industry sectors and client maturity levels.
- An ability to explain how emerging technologies and modern digital approaches depend on trusted, well-managed data, and to apply this understanding when shaping data strategies, roadmaps, and recommendations.
- An ability to apply ethical and responsible considerations when shaping data and digital recommendations, including how data is governed, used, and communicated.
- An ability to apply business architecture, data architecture, operating model, and organizational design concepts to shape practical data and digital transformation recommendations.
- Experience in one or more of our key markets — Defence, Aerospace, Security, Energy, Utilities, Highways, Rail, or the Public Sector — is an advantage.
Rewards & Benefits
Explore the rewards and benefits that help you thrive – at every stage of your life and your career. Enjoy competitive salaries, employee rewards, and a brilliant range of benefits you can tailor to suit your own health, wellbeing, financial, and lifestyle choices. Make the most of a myriad of opportunities for training and professional development to grow your skills and expertise. And combine our hybrid working culture and flexible holiday allowances to balance a great job and fulfilling personal life.
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About AtkinsRéalis
We're AtkinsRéalis, a world-class engineering services and nuclear organization. We connect people, data, and technology to transform the world's infrastructure and energy systems. Together, with our industry partners and clients, and our global team of consultants, designers, engineers, and project managers, we can change the world. We're committed to leading our clients across our various end markets to engineer a better future for our planet and its people.
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Additional Information
Security clearance
This role may require security clearance, and offers of employment will be dependent on obtaining the relevant level of clearance. If this is necessary, it will be discussed with you at interview. The vetting process is delivered by United Kingdom Security Vetting (UKSV) and may require candidates to provide proof of residency in the UK of 5 years or longer. If applying to this role, please do not make reference to (in conversation) or include in your application or CV, details of any current or previously held security clearance.
We are committed to creating a culture where everyone feels that they belong - a place where we can all be ourselves, thrive, and develop to be the best we can be. So, we offer a range of family-friendly, inclusive employment policies, flexible working arrangements, and employee resource groups to support all employees. As an Equal Opportunities Employer, we value applications from all backgrounds, cultures, and ability. As a Disability Confident Leader, we are committed to offering an interview to all applicants who have a disability and meet the essential criteria. If you would like to be considered under this commitment, please let us know at the application stage.
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