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Data Steward Consultant

£500-550pd Inside IR35

Remote in UK.

emagine is a high-end professional services consultancy and solutions firm Specialising in providing business and technology services to the financial services sector, we power progress, solve challenges and deliver real results through tailored high-end consulting services and solutions.

We have created a culture of openness and integrity by building genuine and strong relationships and partnerships, enabling us to be uncompromising in our dedication in delivering the optimal service for our clients.

Our commitment is not just towards our clients but we aim to foster a positive and equitable working environment with our consultants and colleagues which stems from our core values: Confident, Dedicated, Responsible, Genuine.

The primary objective of the Data Steward / Data Scientist role is to ensure effective data management, investigation, and quality assurance within the financial services industry — with a specific focus on KYC (Know Your Customer) and financial crime compliance. While tools like Pega provide workflow capabilities, this role dives into what the data is actually showing — or could be showing — to uncover risk, enhance detection, and enable better-informed compliance decisions.

Main Responsibilities

  • Lead and support data investigations related to KYC and financial crime, interpreting signals and anomalies in the data to guide compliance teams.
  • Use tools like SQL and programming languages (Python, R, Java, Scala) to identify data gaps, inconsistencies, and opportunities for improved risk detection.
  • Evaluate what data is available through systems like Pega and recommend how it can be better structured, enriched, or visualized for real insight.
  • Build small data models to support hypothesis-driven investigations and improve understanding of customer risk profiles.
  • Apply data taxonomy and standards to ensure consistent categorization and interpretation across the business.
  • Develop and share reports/dashboards via Power BI to surface insights to key internal stakeholders.
  • Work closely with compliance, legal, architecture, and IT teams to ensure alignment and secure, compliant data practices.
  • Participate in data migrations and integrations, ensuring data accuracy and readiness for use in regulatory processes.
  • Operate within an Agile team, contributing to planning, sprint reviews, and retrospectives.

Key Requirements

  • Strong experience in data management, investigation, and quality within financial services or compliance functions.
  • Advanced SQL skills; ability to code and manipulate data in Python, R, Java, or Scala.
  • Proven experience with KYC, AML/CTF, Sanctions, and Transaction Monitoring, particularly from a data-driven lens.
  • Comfort with interpreting and improving what systems like Pega present — bridging the gap between workflow automation and meaningful insights.
  • Proficiency in building clear, actionable reports in Power BI.
  • Strong communication and stakeholder engagement skills
  • Experience with data governance frameworks and regulatory data requirements.
  • Exposure to SAFe or Agile delivery environments.
  • Knowledge of data privacy and risk controls.
  • Ability to challenge the status quo and translate regulatory requirements into actionable data improvements.

Our people

In the role of a SME Consultant, you will be a pillar in the engagement effort for assignments, all the way from business process consulting and problem definition to solution design, development and deployment. You will be pivotal to problem definition and discovery of the overall solution and guide teams on project processes and deliverables.

You will anchor business pursuit initiatives, client training and in-house capability building. You will have the opportunity to shape value-adding consulting solutions that enable our clients to meet the changing needs of the global landscape.

The ideal consultants will share our values and be aligned with our ways of working and as your career progresses, you can expect to work across all areas of the project lifecycle, from strategy to implementation.

We pride ourselves on;

  • Providing our people with a supportive culture, rooted in our values and driven by our purpose.
  • Promoting a culture of inclusion, collaboration, well-being, and learning and development.
  • Providing increased agility and flexibility within our hybrid working model
  • Investing in employees’ growth through ongoing training and development
  • Autonomy to take ownership of projects, making decisions and demonstrating individual expertise
  • Providing an transparent performance and career management experience.

Our consultants are integral to delivering successful consulting engagements, addressing our clients’ most pressing business challenges, and build lasting value in disciplines such as:

  • Solve sophisticated, ambiguous business, change and technology problems, bringing structure and meticulous analysis and planning, acting, and taking decisions with little strategic direction
  • Build, develop and sustain trusted senior client relationships in the C-suite by remaining highly attuned to client needs
  • Drive, enable and support the business, partnering with our leaders, clients, and consultants across our practices to take the best of emagine to our clients through opportunity identification/qualification, solution development/presentation

As an employee of emagine, you will experience a close-knit culture in which people stand side by side and where there is an emphasis on building close relationships.

We offer:

  • A commitment to an accelerated career pathway, development, learning and networking
  • Excellent compensation package
  • Hybrid Working
  • Enhanced Family Friendly Policies
  • Professional growth within a diverse and global environment

Interested?

At emagine, we are committed to building an international and diverse team by embracing our different backgrounds.

If you are up to the challenge and would like to find out more, get in touch with us immediately, our internal recruitment team is always keen to hear from dynamic individuals that are looking to further their career and explore their full potential.

“emagine is an equal opportunity employer, and employment practices are based strictly on merit. It is the policy of the Company to give equal opportunity in employment regardless of sex, sexual orientation, marital status, race, age, disability, gender reassignment, pregnancy and maternity, religion or ethnic origin”Seniority level

  • Seniority levelMid-Senior level

Employment type

  • Employment typeFull-time

Job function

  • Job functionInformation Technology
  • IndustriesIT Services and IT Consulting

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