Principal Digital and Data Consultant

Are you interested in working on some of the world's most exciting projects, with some of the world's leading businesses?

At Turner & Townsend we're passionate about making the difference. That means delivering better outcomes for our clients, helping our people to realize their potential, and doing our part to create a prosperous society. Every day we help our clients deliver ambitious and highly technical projects in over 118 offices and 47 countries worldwide.

At Turner & Townsend, we offer a wide variety of benefits to our staff to help them inside or outside of the work. We offer true work life balance, working from home arrangements, team events and much more.

Turner & Townsend's Data and Digital Advisory team is expanding and looking for a Principal Consultant to join the team. As a member of our Data & Digital Consulting team, you will be 'output' focused and have experience working across a variety of sectors and client types, supporting delivery and implementation of performance improvements across Portfolios and Programs of work. In addition to driving impactful client outcomes you will be expected to support business and service development to help grow our team and market presence. We are looking for someone with a passion for data improvements and client excellence, but who is also keen to help build our team and service profile and continue on our journey as a leader within the industry.

As a Principal Consultant, you will support the key analytical and system development activities performed by the Consulting Data and Digital Team for our clients, including:

• Providing data strategy and design recommendations to our clients based upon data maturity diagnostics
• Develop digital technology strategies including investment recommendations
• Lead digital project implementation through stakeholder management and scope coordination
• The development of key client data insight reports used to drive enhanced portfolio performance and management
• The development of program/portfolio management systems used to improve delivery reporting and control
• Deploying enhanced data management frameworks with clients and managing increased levels of data competency across organisations

As a Principal Consultant, you will be expected to support our team by:

• Support our market presence by identifying new project opportunities through networking and relationship building
• Having the ability to lead and deliver open tender responses and have strong proposal response ability who understands what a strong proposal response looks like
• Support on service line development by identifying new products or methodologies which can be taken to market
• Help manage internal data warehousing platform environments and our internal data strategies
• Help our broader team members developed through mentoring and coaching with a focus on data and digital professional development

In addition to these primary activities in the role you may be asked to assist with the following activities:

• Development of key client financial reports and scenario analytics used in Business Case Development
• Providing hands-on PMO support through the management of programs and coordinating key data entry required for delivery and financial reporting
• Assisting with data and digital diagnostics findings reports and recommendation papers.
• Identifying improvement or efficiency opportunities and producing coherent and persuasive cases for data and digital change.
• Translating client data and digital strategy into clear action plans that make a tangible difference and leading performance improvement initiatives
• Oversight and management of system deployments with vendors, including implementation planning, ensuring the production of the detailed project plan.
• Development of small-scale applications which can be deployed to clients, or for internal use.

• Digital and technology strategy and enhancement recommendations (Intermediate to advanced)
• Data strategy and architecture design management (Intermediate to advanced)
• System integration (intermediate)
• Analytical reporting skills and dashboard development (advanced)
• Scenario analytics and modelling (advanced)
• Data interrogation and cleaning (intermediate)
• Source data standardization and key mapping skills (intermediate)
• Development of key insights reports based upon analytical findings (advanced)
• Creating conceptual data maps and data schemas (intermediate)
• Understanding of using statistics to interpret data (intermediate)

• Programming
  • Python/ R Data (or similar) - (intermediate)
  • MS Visual Studio or similar; – (intermediate)
  • MS365 Power Platform (Apps, automate) – (intermediate)
• Database Platform Development
  • Microsoft SQL + SSMS – (intermediate)
  • Microsoft Azure Platform (Synapse, Machine Learning, Databricks) – (intermediate)

• Be currently in Australia with full Australian working rights.
• A degree in one of the following: Computer/ Data Science, Business, Economics, Mathematics, Commerce, Engineering
• A minimum of 5 years professional experience in one of the following fields: management consulting, business management, and project management or information technology
• Good understanding of business improvement approaches including business process re-engineering, system development, change management and other relevant techniques.
• (Preferred) Experience in Data and Digital roles; Data Analyst, Digital Consultant, Data Scientist, Data Engineer, Cyber Security, Technology Specialist, System Developer
• (Preferred) Experience of working across a variety of sectors that include property, retail, banking and both the private and public sector.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Enthusiastic, ability to work autonomously and strong problem-solving skills.

Our inspired people share our vision and mission. We provide a great place to work, where each person has the opportunity and voice to affect change. We want our people to succeed both in work and life. To support this we promote a healthy, productive and flexible working environment that respects work-life balance.

Turner & Townsend is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees and actively encourage applications from all sectors of the community.