Senior Data Strategy Lead

This is an exciting opportunity with one of our global clients.

The Data Strategy & Architecture Lead owns the end-to-end vision, definition, and architectural realization of data strategy engagements across our client’s key verticals — including Banking, Insurance, and Healthcare. This role bridges the gap between data strategy and solution architecture, ensuring that strategic recommendations are executable through modern, AI-ready data platforms and technology ecosystems.

You will lead consulting engagements that assess maturity, define target-state architectures, and design value-driven data roadmaps. Working closely with our Architecture and Technology capability teams, you’ll translate business goals into actionable blueprints that drive modernization, self-service analytics, and trusted data foundations.

This role combines strategic leadership with deep architectural understanding, enabling clients to accelerate digital and AI transformation through strong data design principles.

As part of your duties, you will be responsible for:

Data Strategy Execution

  • Strategic Advisory: Lead executive-level workshops to assess data and architecture maturity, identifying gaps in governance, integration, and platform design. Craft roadmaps that span strategy, architecture, and AI-enablement.
  • Architecture Ownership: Define target-state data platform architectures, integration approaches, and reference models across cloud ecosystems (e.g., Azure, AWS, GCP) in collaboration with enterprise and solution architects.
  • Design Translation: Ensure data strategy recommendations are actionable — linking conceptual designs to feasible delivery architectures that enable scalability, compliance, and performance.

Data Strategy Capability Build

  • Build and refine Data Strategy methodologies to include architecture alignment and cloud modernization best practices.
  • Develop reusable frameworks for AI-ready data architectures, metadata management, and data governance enablement.
  • Coach Data Strategy Lead peers and consultants on interpreting architectural outputs and incorporating them into strategy engagements.

If the opportunity interests you then please apply here

Job Details

Company
MANNING SERVICES LIMITED
Location
United Kingdom, UK
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