Managing, Principal or Senior Principal Digital

Job Description

Location/s: UK-wide
Recruiter contact: Alice Roostan

Mott MacDonald is a global engineering, management, and development consultancy with over 20,000 employees across more than 50 countries and 140+ offices.

We work across incredible global industries, delivering exciting work that is defining our future and making an important societal impact in the communities we serve. Our people power our performance – we succeed when they do. With countless opportunities to collaborate, learn, and grow, the possibilities for excellence are as varied as every individual.

Whether you want to grow as a subject matter expert or broaden your experience with roles across our international community, you’re surrounded by global specialists who want to combine their expertise and champion you to be your best. As a proudly employee-owned business, we benefit our clients, our communities, and each other, investing in creating the right space for everyone to feel empowered, included, and valued. Whatever your ambition, Mott MacDonald is where people come to be brilliant.

About the division
Client organisations face increasingly complex and interconnected challenges throughout their business, and drivers for change are both wide ranging and influential on each another. This includes the need to maximise investment, pursuing net zero and making the energy transition. Climate resilience, digital transformation, and environmental and social outcomes also command new ways of thinking and working.

Our range of strategic advisory capabilities help executive teams articulate the future state of their enterprise, programme or problem that aligns their people, processes, information, and technology.

Our integrated management consultancy services leverage our rich technical excellence of complex problem solving, proven through the practical delivery of projects and programmes through our asset management, business change, digital and data, and value chain solutions.

About the team
The vision for our new Strategic Advisory portfolio is to empower lasting industry transformation. We enable clients to navigate complex challenges by combining industry leading technical domain knowledge, innovation and our network of collaborative partners to deliver client-focused results. Our trusted advice ensures clients not only thrive, but remain agile, resilient, and in step in a volatile world. We remain pragmatic and outcomes-focused in shaping and implementing transformational change that delivers demonstrable social, economic and environmental value. We want our people to have genuinely exciting and fulfilling careers full of equal opportunities for growth, with a real sense of purpose through meaningful work and relationships. All of this is underpinned by a culture of trust and transparency.

Overview of the role
As a Principal Data Governance Consultant within our new Asset, Data and Information team (ADI), you will help us empower lasting industry transformation. You will be part of our entrepreneurial and growing team which provides industry-leading, award-winning consulting services. We are looking for a consultant with strong experience in data and especially data governance, and ideally with experience in at least one of our key growth sectors: Water, Buildings, Rail, Aviation or Defence.

Your contribution:
The ADI team help clients to improve their operations, maximise value from their assets, and make better decisions. As part of our Data Strategy capability, you will:

• Build a data governance service to support clients in improving their data quality and reliability
• Provide guidance as to approach and will be comfortable road mapping the overall strategy as well as supporting delivery of data governance practices
• Provide strong, evidence-based advice on master data, data quality and organisational systems to support best practice in data governance
• Be comfortable working with and adapting to clients in different sectors and will understand how to adapt your advice to their needs and circumstances
• Play a vital role in scaling the data strategy capability, connecting with clients and colleagues alike to create opportunities for growth

Delivering great work:

• You will lead data governance projects for clients, which could range from short term strategy and road mapping projects to longer term delivery of enterprise data governance improvements
• You will be a trusted advisor to clients, and will be a key part of building our capability and reputation in data governance
• You will support the Data Strategy team to identify the shape of the opportunity in data governance for our infrastructure clients, and will steer and support our resourcing and service development in this area
• You will grow your internal and client network to identify opportunity for data governance projects
• You will support the bidding and scoping process for new projects, and will be part of identifying the right opportunities for the team
• You will manage your professional development, ensuring you have competencies in the tools, approaches and skills that will support your clients
• You will contribute to the development of the team and organisation, for instance through recruitment and line management, by contributing to wider innovation or support projects, attending or contributing to events, or engaging in peer support

Candidate specification
Essential:

• Certified data management professional (DMBOK) with substantial direct experience of data governance and strategy, preferably in low data maturity or infrastructure organisations
• Experience delivering a variety of data governance change projects, with a demonstrable understanding of strategy and approach and how it can be successfully applied in different contexts
• A strong understanding of how regulation can impact an organisation’s data governance needs, particularly in strongly regulated environments. Direct experience in adapting data governance approaches to organisational contexts
• Strong project, programme and/or people management skills and experience
• Good general communication skills, including the ability to engage with clients, present results, and connect the data project with the organisation’s overall approach and vision
• An appreciation of and experience with the available enterprise toolsets for data governance, especially those available within Microsoft Azure or Fabric

Desirable:

• Experience in one or more of transportation, energy, water, defence, buildings, environment, or technology sectors
• Experience in consultancy roles, with skills in some of: working with clients, bid writing, proposal development, building a network, and business development activity
• Experience with more technical data skills is a bonus, such as PowerBI
• A creative approach to scoping projects and an ability to recognise opportunities for data projects that deliver value
• Evidence of commitment to continuing professional development, such as membership or chartership with a professional body

We are actively recruiting a diverse workforce that is reflective of the communities we serve. We recognise that differences in ability, skills and experience are a strength and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds.

UK Immigration

Mott MacDonald Ltd. are not currently offering sponsorship to candidates under the Skilled Worker visa route in the UK. This decision is as a consequence of the changes made to the Skilled Worker route by the UK Government in April 2024. We continue to welcome applications from candidates who are eligible for alternative immigration routes in the UK, that do not require sponsorship as a Skilled Worker now or in future.

Agile working

At Mott MacDonald, we believe it makes business sense for you and your manager to choose how you can work most effectively to meet your client, team, and personal commitments. We offer a hybrid working policy that embraces your well-being, flexibility, and trust.

Equality, diversity, and inclusion

We put equality, diversity, and inclusion at the heart of our business, seeking to promote fair employment procedures and practices to ensure equal opportunities for all. We encourage individual expression in our workplace and are committed to creating an inclusive environment where everyone feels they can contribute.

Accessibility

We want you to perform your best at every stage in the recruitment process. If you are disabled or need any support to enable you to apply or attend an interview, please contact us at reasonable.adjustments@mottmac.com and we will talk to you about how we can support you.

We offer some fantastic benefits including:

Health and wellbeing

• Private medical insurance for all UK colleagues.
• Health cash plan to support you with every day health costs and treatments.
• Access to Peppy, providing free support from menopause experts for all UK colleagues.
• A variety of wellbeing support is available through our comprehensive wellbeing program, including access for you and your family.
• Ability to flex your salary to opt into a wide range of health benefits, many of which can be extended to your family too.

Financial wellbeing

• We match employee pension contributions between 4.5% and 7%.
• Life assurance equal up to 4 x your basic salary, with an option to increase the level of cover to 6 x your salary.
• Our income protection scheme provides a financial benefit, as well as absence and return to work support due to long-term illness or injury.
• Flexible benefits, including increased life assurance cover, critical illness insurance, payroll saving and will writing.
• As an independently owned business we share the financial success of the business with all our colleagues in various ways including annual bonus schemes.

Lifestyle

• A minimum of 33-35 days holiday each year, inclusive of public holidays and dependent on level, with the ability to buy or sell leave through our flexible benefits programme.
• Holiday entitlement increased to a minimum of 35 days after 5 years’ service.
• Variety of employee saving schemes and discounts from high-street retailers.

Enhanced family and carers leave

• Enhanced family leave policies, including 26 weeks paid maternity and adoption leave, and two weeks paid paternity/partner leave.
• Our shared parental leave matches maternity leave meaning we pay up to 24 weeks at full pay.
• Up to five additional days leave are provided for those with significant caring responsibilities, two of which are paid.

Learning and development

• Primary annual professional institution subscription.
• A broad range of opportunities to enhance both technical and soft skills through mentoring, formal training, and self-development options.

Networks, communities, and social outcomes

• Join a wide range of groups including our Advanced Employee Networks which support our LGBTQ+, gender, race and ethnicity, disability, and parents/carers communities.
• Make a difference within our communities through our social outcomes.

Apply now, or for more information about our application process, click here.