Managing Principal, Data Strategy and Advisory

About the team: 

Capco’s Data Team helps our clients transform every aspect of their business.  We are highly skilled at formulating data strategy, defining business and technology initiatives across the data management lifecycle, and aligning multi-year strategic roadmaps with client’s business goals. As digital technologies advance and regulations tighten, today’s consumers – and, therefore, today’s businesses – are becoming more aware of the importance of good quality data. We work to establish holistic ways to effectively manage data through the modern data supply chain and facilitate consumption through analytics, modelling, AI, machine learning, dashboarding, and reporting.  

About the Job: 

We are currently seeking Data Strategy & Advisory Leaders to drive the growth of our industry recognized, and award-winning Data Practice. To be considered for this role you will be a respected authority in financial services data, with experience in helping to build and run a data advisory consulting business. This is an exciting opportunity to join a large and growing team of multi-disciplinary data practitioners, who you will direct and collaborate with to develop new businesses and deliver leading data strategies for top-tier Financial Services clients. You will play a key role in helping to direct and drive the growth of our data management and data advisory capability, identifying business development opportunities on new and existing clients, and aiding the development of client proposals, and propositions. 

You will help to develop the US Data Practice and support the broader Global Data Practice on industry changing topics. Collaboration, enthusiasm, and encouragement are key in ensuring we maintain our culture, and working in an environment where clients become colleagues. We are looking for a candidate who will empower the team, drive high standards, grow the capability, and deliver customer-focused outcomes. 

What You’ll Get to Do: 

As an experienced delivery and sales leader, you will be expected to mobilize, scale, and lead large mixed Capco / client teams and provide expert advisory to deliver a diverse set of outcomes, such as: 

• Enabling digital transformation and data-driven decision-making underpinned by robust data capabilities 

• Defining and operationalizing data strategies 

• Uplifting client data literacy and culture through structured programs 

• Designing and embedding data management frameworks, including through implementation of data management policies, standards, processes and operating procedures 

• Steering the deployment, implementation and rollout of new data management tooling 

You will also play a key role in developing the Data Strategy & Advisory capability within Capco, and will: 

• Identify and research business development opportunities on new or existing clients and aid the development of client proposals and bids 

• Have a strong commercial focus, ability to develop client relationships, direct sales opportunities and develop data propositions 

• Build market networks and relationships, to enhance the market awareness of the US Data Practice 

• Contribute to internally and externally-facing innovation practice in your field 

• Create a collaborative culture, driving talent development, and providing mentoring and coaching for those developing their careers in data 

• Be comfortable working across multiple projects and initiatives, driving the growth of new and existing data capabilities, engaging internal and external stakeholders 

What You’ll bring with You: 

• 8+ years of data consulting experience likely in a senior management or director position 

• Extensive experience partnering with financial institutions to shape and operationalize data strategies at an Enterprise-level in an advisory capacity 

• A passion for providing high-quality data advisory that delivers lasting change 

• Experience in spearheading new business opportunities, including through structured account and domain planning and pipeline management 

• Highly effective communication, rapport-building and influencing skills, with an ability to consistently build lasting relationships at all levels 

• Deep and extensive understanding of Data Strategy, Data Management, and Data Analytics principles, and one or more of several common Data Management methodologies and capability models (e.g. DAMA DMBOK, DCAM, CDMC) and toolsets 

• Deep understanding of the end-to-end data ecosystem (e.g. Data Architecture, Data Engineering, Data Analytics, Data Privacy & Security) and cross-capability interactions 

• Experience defining and delivering responses to regulations (e.g. BCBS 239, CCAR, Solvency II) and control remediations at both Group and Divisional levels in financial institutions 

• Ability to develop working relationships with a wide variety of clients, from C-suite to technical resources, balancing conflicting priorities 

• Background managing business and technical teams to deliver projects of varying sizes, from incubating innovative products to delivering large scale transformations 

• Deep experience working within Financial Services, Capital Markets, Insurance, or Wealth & Asset Management in a data change role 

• Proven experience in program execution, business analysis and change management – proven ability to shape, design, and manage the execution of data programs 

• Experienced working in a multi-client environment that emphasizes collaboration, and teamwork. 

• Experienced in recruiting and developing teams 

Why Capco? 

A career at Capco is a chance to help reshape the competitive landscape in financial services.  We launch new banks, transform existing ones, and help our clients navigate complex change.  As consultants, we work on the front-end business design all the way through to technology implementation. 

We are the largest Financial Services focused consultancy in the world, serving everyone from global banks to emerging FinTechs, from strategy through digital transformation, design, business consulting, data and analytics, cyber, cloud, technology architecture, and engineering. 

Capco is a young and growing firm. We maintain an entrepreneurial spirit and growth mindset, and have minimal bureaucracy. We have no internal silos that get in the way of your career opportunities or  ability to focus on our clients and make a difference to the business.  We offer the opportunity for everyone to learn rapidly, take on tough challenges, and get promoted quickly. We take pride in our creative, collaborative, diverse, and inclusive culture, where everyone can #BYAW.   

We offer highly competitive benefits, including medical, dental and vision insurance, a 401(k) plan, tuition reimbursement, and a work culture focused on innovation and creation of lasting value for our clients and employees.  

Ready to take the Next Step? 

If this sounds like you, we would love to hear from you.  This is an opportunity to make a difference and contribute to a highly successful company with a significant growth trajectory.