Senior Consultant

Job description

**Job Title: Senior Consultant** **Location: Reading, UK (Hybrid)** **Company:** **Coeo Ltd** **Please Note**: You must have a UK passport or be able to live and work in the UK without employer sponsorship. At Coeo, we believe data has the power to transform organizations. As one of the UK's leading Microsoft Data & AI consultancies, we help our clients unlock the full value of their data by combining deep technical expertise with business-focused consulting. Our mission is simple: **to help our clients predict their future**. For over 18 years, we've specialized exclusively in the Microsoft ecosystem, helping organizations modernize their data platforms, harness the power of analytics and AI, and make better decisions faster. Today, we're at the forefront of delivering solutions built on Microsoft Fabric, Azure, Databricks, Power BI and AI technologies, enabling our clients to turn data into a genuine competitive advantage. **Why Coeo?** We're more than just technology specialists. We're trusted advisors, architects, engineers and consultants who work closely with our clients to solve complex business challenges and deliver measurable outcomes. Our expertise spans: - Managed Services - Database Modernization - Data Engineering & Analytics - Data & AI Strategy - Adoption & Change Management Our consultants are encouraged to think beyond project delivery. We look for individuals who are naturally curious, commercially aware, and passionate about helping clients succeed. You'll have the opportunity to build trusted relationships, identify new opportunities, influence strategic decisions, and play a key role in shaping our clients' data journeys. **About the Role** As a Senior Consultant, you'll work alongside some of the industry's most experienced Data, Analytics & AI professionals, delivering innovative solutions for organizations across a wide range of sectors. You'll lead client engagements, design modern data platforms, solve complex technical challenges, and help organizations realize the value of their investments in Microsoft technologies. We expect our consultants to combine strong technical expertise with excellent communication and consulting skills, bringing a growth mindset to every client engagement. This is primarily a client-facing role and will involve occasional travel to client sites across the UK, and on occasion internationally. This may include overnight stays when required to support project delivery and client engagements. **Key Responsibilities** - Deliver complex Data & AI, analytics and platform modernization projects using Azure data services including **Microsoft Fabric** and **Azure Databricks.** - Lead client workshops, architecture discussions and technical engagements. - Design scalable, secure and governed data platform and analytics solutions. - Support sales and pre-sales activities, including solution design and commercial proposals. - Develop data models, semantic models and insight solutions that drive business value. - Advocate adoption, change management and data-driven decision making. - Mentor consultants and champion engineering best practice. - Produce high-quality technical and client-facing documentation. - Manage project risks, dependencies and technical delivery outcomes. **Technical Skills** - Strong experience designing and delivering modern data platforms using **Microsoft Fabric, Azure Databricks, Azure Data Factory, Azure Synapse Analytics, Azure SQL and Data Lake technologies.** - Proven experience implementing **Lakehouse, Data Warehouse and Medallion Architecture patterns, including data modelling, governance and performance optimization**. - Expertise in building scalable data ingestion, transformation and orchestration pipelines, integrating data from cloud, on-premises and third-party business systems. - Strong hands-on capability with **SQL, Python, Spark and PySpark** for data engineering, analytics and automation workloads. - Experience with**Azure Databricks and/or Microsoft Fabric engineering** workloads, including notebooks, Delta Lake, data transformation, optimization and operationalization of data solutions. - An understanding of data governance, security, lineage and data quality, using tools and frameworks such as Microsoft Purview and enterprise governance practices. - Experience developing **Power BI semantic models,** dashboards and reporting solutions that enable self-service analytics and business decision-making. - Familiarity with CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code and DevOps practices for deploying and managing modern data platforms. - Ability to engage with stakeholders to translate business requirements into scalable, secure and supportable data and analytics solutions. **Project Delivery Experience**  - 5+ years' experience delivering **Data & AI, analytics** or **data**