JOB REQUISITION
London Data & Analytics Associate Director
LOCATION
LONDON
ADDITIONAL LOCATIONS
JOB DESCRIPTION
You Belong Here
The Protiviti Career provides opportunity to learn, inspire and advance within a collaborative and inclusive culture. We hire curious individuals for whom learning is a passion.
We lean into our mission: We Care. We Collaborate. We Deliver.
At every level, we champion leaders who live our values of integrity, inclusion, innovation and commitment to success. Imagining our work as a journey, we believe integrity guides our way, inclusion moves us forward together, innovation creates new destinations, and our commitment to success empowers us to deliver on our vision to be the most trusted global consulting firm.
Where We Need You
We are seeking an Associate Director, Data & Analytics to play a senior technical and leadership role within Protiviti's UK Data & Analytics practice.
The role combines deep technical expertise with senior client engagement, complex delivery leadership, people and capability development, sales responsibility, bid and proposal leadership and thought leadership. You will shape, design and oversee modern data platforms and advanced data solutions, while also contributing directly to business development, sales growth and the achievement of agreed sales targets for the Data & Analytics practice.
You will bring the technical credibility to engage with senior business and technology stakeholders, make effective architecture decisions and mobilise multidisciplinary teams to deliver high-quality client outcomes.
What You Can Expect
As an Associate Director, you will provide senior leadership across some of our more complex Data & Analytics engagements and play an important role in strengthening our technical capabilities, client relationships, market offering and sales pipeline.
You will be a trusted adviser to clients and colleagues, helping translate business ambitions into pragmatic data strategies, architectures and delivery approaches. You will combine appropriate hands-on technical contribution with leadership, delegation, governance and oversight.
You will also play an active role in developing people, strengthening reusable capabilities, leading and contributing to bids and proposals, and converting credible opportunities into sustainable revenue growth.
Key Responsibilities
Data Architecture & Technical Leadership
Lead the architecture, design and implementation of scalable, secure and resilient enterprise data platforms.
Set technical direction across data architecture, data modelling, medallion architecture, data pipelines, advanced analytics and emerging AI solutions.
Translate complex business and technology objectives into pragmatic architectures, delivery roadmaps and implementation approaches.
Provide informed technical challenge and recommendations to clients and internal stakeholders.
Guide technology choices by balancing scalability, security, performance, cost, maintainability and client constraints.
Complex Delivery Leadership
Provide senior technical leadership across complex and concurrent Data & Analytics engagements.
Oversee technical quality, delivery standards, architecture decisions, risks and dependencies.
Lead multidisciplinary teams and establish appropriate governance, accountability and collaboration across business and technology stakeholders.
Maintain strong client delivery commitments while balancing wider leadership and practice responsibilities.
Ensure chargeability is maintained at an optimal level through effective management of client delivery commitments, commercial priorities and wider practice responsibilities.
Modern Data, Analytics & AI
Provide technical direction across modern cloud data ecosystems and enterprise data platforms.
Guide the architecture of modular, maintainable and reusable data ingestion, transformation and orchestration solutions.
Shape advanced analytics solutions and the appropriate application of AI, including…