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Senior Manager or Director, Data & AI Delivery Lead (Financial Services)

Baringa

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eventPublished on Aug 10, 2026 · verifiedWe confirmed on Aug 11, 2026 that it's still live

About the job

About Baringa

Baringa is a global consulting firm that partners with leaders to drive change and create value. With deep industry expertise, and enabled by advanced technology, the firm helps clients to deliver with greater confidence and certainty. With over 2,000 people across the UK, Europe, North America, Asia and Australia, the firm combines global insight with local understanding. The firm works across energy and resources, financial services, government and public sector, consumer products and retail, pharmaceuticals and life sciences, manufacturing, and technology, media and telecoms, with capabilities spanning strategy, transformation and operational excellence – all powered by advanced technology, data, AI and digital innovation. Clients value Baringa’s collaborative approach and the way its teams integrate seamlessly – all working with a shared understanding of what matters most. The firm is known for its kind, curious experts who listen closely and care deeply about client success as they help clients transform energy markets, modernise financial platforms, expand telecoms and digital networks through advanced data analytics, enable digital services in government, and unlock growth in consumer sectors. Certified as a

Great Place to Work around the world, Baringa has been recognised by the Financial Times in 22 categories of its UK Leading Management Consultants rankings, and by Forbes for four consecutive years as one of the World’s Best Management Consulting Firms. Our Data, AI, Solutions & Engineering (DAISE) practice are looking for an experienced Data & AI Delivery Lead in Financial Services to support the interlock between DAISE and the Financial Services industry sector at Baringa.

Our DAISE practice consists of over 100 UK and nearshore data professionals, with deep expertise across data strategy, data science, governance

& engineering. We focus on delivering value-adding, sustainable data and AI capabilities aligned to our clients’ needs. Our team won Data Consultancy of the Year at the British Data Awards 2025, and we're partners with Microsoft and AWS.

This senior role will sit within DAISE and work closely with Baringa’s Financial Services industry teams, helping sectors translate market priorities into data, analytics and AI opportunities, build senior client relationships, shape pipelines across key accounts, and lead the successful delivery of DAISE engagements.

What you will be doing

Y ou’ll

own

the delivery of large-scale data and AI programmes within

Financial Services , bringing together multidisciplinary DAISE teams across data strategy, analytics, AI, engineering, architecture,

governance

and industry SMEs to deliver

work that creates meaningful, lasting

outcomes for our clients You'll

be accountable for growing and delivering DAISE’s Data and AI services within Financial Services , working with the DAISE interlock parter, sector GTM and account teams to build pipeline, shape opportunities and deliver high-quality client engagements Y ou’ll

provide commercial leadership across

Financial Services , owning proposals, statements of work, delivery commercials and team shaping, while working with industry teams to originate, qualify and

build

a strong pipeline of DAISE opportunities You’ll

act

as the day-to-day interlock between DAISE and

Financial Services

teams,

connecting

sector ambition with DAISE capability

and shaping

expertise

in both directions.

You’ll

help embed

data, analytics and AI

thinking

into

sector

priorities,

propositions

and client conversations , while bringing market insight, client

needs

and delivery learnings back into DAISE to strengthen our services,

assets

and future propositions . You’ll

build trusted

relationships with senior clients across Financial Services

and within Baringa , raising DAISE’s profile through sector conversations,

client engagement,

client

events

and industry conferences, and shaping data and AI opportunities that respond to market priorities and create measurable client value. You’ll help develop sector-specific data and AI propositions, products and reusable assets that respond to market needs and strengthen how DAISE goes to market in Financial Services

Your skills and experience

You’ll have led or played a senior delivery role in engagements that use data and AI to address the priorities of banks, insurers, asset managers or market infrastructure clients, such as regulatory reporting and risk management, financial crime and fraud analytics, customer and adviser personalisation, operational resilience, pricing and profitability, cloud data platform modernisation, or AI-enabled productivity across front, middle and back-office functions.

You’ll bring 10 + years of

consulting experience

in

Financial Services , with the credibility to

build

long - term ,

trusted relationships

with senior clients

up to and including C-suite level ,

and

the

ability to align senior clients, sector leaders, account teams and multidisciplinary delivery teams around a shared agenda You'll

bring experience leading

large team s through

complex data and AI programmes, with clear ownership of delivery quality, governance, risk management, team

performance and client outcomes Y ou’ll

be a lifelong learner, able to

demonstrate

a clear drive to keep developing your skills and stay current in a fast-moving AI landscape .

You’ll

be

passiona te ,

entrepreneurial and excited by how data can solve complex client problems You ’ll

lead from the front

and role model the behaviours you expect f

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