Solutions Consultant - Data Management

Alpha Group is a leading global consultancy to the financial services industry. Founded in 2003, Alpha has spent over 20 years bringing together specialists, sector-focused strategy, management consulting, and technology expertise to support the entire client transformation lifecycle. Having partnered with more than 1,200 clients worldwide across the asset and wealth management, alternatives, and insurance industries, Alpha is a trusted advisor for complex change programs.

We now have over 1,180 consultants working with clients across North America, the UK, Europe, the Middle East, and APAC. In 2024, in recognition of our successful track record and strong growth prospects, Alpha was acquired by Bridgepoint, one of the world's leading quoted private asset growth investors.

Our people are at the heart of everything we do. Many of our team have built long and fulfilling careers with us, often staying for over a decade. Alpha offers a genuinely rewarding place to work: a meritocratic environment where your career can flourish, and a welcoming culture where you can be yourself, connect with others, and thrive.

As we look to the future, we’re excited to be looking for new Alpha colleagues—individuals who are collaborative, innovative, and ambitious. We hope you will join us and help shape the next chapter of our growth journey.

Alpha Tech Services is part of the Alpha Financial Markets Consulting (Alpha FMC) group, the leading global consultancy to the asset and wealth management industry. We are a boutique management consulting firm that offers the world’s top asset and wealth managers a competitive edge through our expertise and industry insight. Our team is of a uniquely high caliber and by focusing on asset and wealth management alone we build deep knowledge and experience within our industry. We work with a blue-chip client base, including 21 of the top 25 largest global asset management firms, and work with over 130 clients across the globe. We have our headquarters located the United Kingdom, as well as offices in major global financial centers across the United States, Canada, France, Luxembourg, Switzerland, Denmark, and Asia. Alpha Tech Services represents the technology implementation/business integration arm of the Alpha group, with deep expertise in delivering change and transformation programs centered around Asset & Wealth technology solutions. To clients, we are a trusted partner for creating programs, however, we are so much more to our employees. At Alpha, we pride ourselves in being a meritocratic environment perfect for building a career and meeting great people, as well as a rewarding place to work.

In your role as a Solutions Consultant, you will:

• →Build data pipelines and applications to stream and process financial datasets.
• →Lead data modelling activities to capture and model data requirements, business rules, and logical and physical models to support reporting solutions and downstream processes
• →Define, build and publish reporting capabilities in leading BI/reporting tools, such as Tableau and Power BI.
• →Design, code, and tune ETL pipelines using Boomi, Talend, Informatica or similar technologies.
• →Data profiling and source-to-target mapping (including complex business rules)

• →Apply modern data management toolsets and methods to design, build, implement, and optimize data solutions of all types including data warehouses, data pipelines, data cleansing.
• →Define and socialise technical approaches for SDLC, data migration, integrations and reporting supported by a Solution Architect, the client and project management team.
• →Analyze, review and document business, functional, and technical requirements.
• →Drive the documentation and development according to specifications and standards.
• →Participate in project team meetings and communicate effectively with internal and client peers, architects, system analysts, business analysts, project managers, quality control, and across other technology team boundaries, reporting project status as required.
• →Support Alpha’s internal product/accelerator development for future client projects.
• →Mentor and coach junior team members.

• 2-5 years of experience in data analysis & modelling, reporting, architecture roles, including experience with transformational efforts.
• Experience in the Asset & Wealth Management industry.
• Experience in data mining, profiling, and analysis.
• Experience with complex data modelling, ETL design (AWS Glue, Talend, Azure Data Factory), and using large databases in a business environment.
• Experience with deploying compute and orchestrating workloads directly in Azure or AWS, or platforms such as Databricks.
• Knowledge of data warehousing concepts and experience with cloud data platforms like Snowflake, Azure Synapse or AWS Redshift.
• Experience with object-oriented programming (OOP) languages like Python, Ruby, Java, or similar language preferred.
• Understanding of financial technology vendors and data elements similar to Bloomberg, Blackrock, Simcorp or Charles River.
• Experience with the following would as an advantage:
  • Data handling with AI/ML: Python, R
  • ETL: Talend, Boomi, Databricks, Azure Data Factory
  • Low Code platforms: MS PowerApps, Mendix, Outsystems
  • CRM: Salesforce, MS Dynamics
  • Workflow: Unqork, Appian, Boomi Flow
• Marketing Automation: Pardot, Marketing Cloud, Marketo, Eloqua
• CMS: Adobe Experience Manager, Optimizely, Kurtosys

At Alpha, diversity, equity and inclusion are critical to our success. Our priorities show a focus on fostering an inclusive, equitable workplace where individuals are treated fairly regardless of gender or background. We welcome applications from disabled people and are committed to making our recruitment process and workplace accessible and inclusive for everyone.