Lead Business Strategy Consultant (Data)

At Ensono, our purpose is to be a relentless ally, disrupting the status quo and unleashing our clients to Do Great Things! We enable our clients to achieve key business outcomes that reshape how our world runs. As an expert technology adviser and managed service provider with cross-platform certifications, Ensono empowers our clients to keep up with continuous change and embrace innovation.

We help our clients think and do, delivering strategy and software engineering that gives them the confidence to take on their toughest challenges and improve the lives of their people and customers.

We have worked on a variety of projects from cloud service integrations, building Data Lake and Microservice platforms, through to building apps, voice recognition platforms and offering digital strategy consulting. We have worked across several industries, with clients including Screwfix, Next, Travel Lodge and Gym Group.

About the role and what you will be doing:

You will be joining a cross‑functional team of like‑minded individuals with shared values, and in your role as Lead Business Analyst, you will play a pivotal leadership role within complex project environments. You will take responsibility for shaping analysis approaches, facilitating strategic conversations, and providing clarity in ambiguous situations.

You will lead workshops, define and challenge business needs, and become the go‑to advisor for your client in relation to business analysis, process improvement, and strategic alignment. You will mentor and support other analysts, influence project direction, and ensure that business value is at the core of every decision.

Alongside strong core BA skills, you will bring enhanced data literacy and practical experience with analytical tools, enabling you to support data‑informed decision‑making, lightweight analysis, and emerging AI‑driven initiatives across Ensono projects.

Ensono has a diverse set of communities, in addition to your core competency, that you’ll be encouraged to contribute to and learn from. You will be a self‑starter, proactive in your delivery and career development, including identifying your training needs and using your training budget to support your growth.

In this role, you will:

• Lead discovery, requirements definition, and strategic analysis activities across complex programmes.

• Facilitate workshops and stakeholder sessions to define business needs, objectives, constraints, and success criteria.

• Guide clients through strategic decision‑making, challenging assumptions and ensuring alignment with business goals.

• Provide coaching, feedback, and support to Senior and Consultant‑level Business Analysts within your project and across the practice.

• Represent Ensono at senior‑level client forums, offering strategic insight and thought leaderships

• Inspire clients with the art of the possible, helping them see how enhanced data insight, smarter measurement and clearer KPIs can transform the way they operate and achieve their strategic goals.

• Spot indicators of data quality issues that may impact business outcomes and help clients address them.

• Create Power BI dashboards or similar lightweight analytical outputs that help the client make data-driven decisions to achieve their business outcomes.

• Shape AI/ML‑related requirements and help stakeholders frame AI/ML use cases, define success criteria, and understand risks (bias, accuracy, explainability).

• Review AI‑powered or ML‑driven outputs to ensure usability and alignment to business intent.

• Work with clients to understand their data landscapes and future aspirations, and help them to understand the potential benefits of different strategies.

What you will bring to Ensono:

We are looking for passionate Lead Business Analysts who bring strategic thinking, strong communication skills, and a proven track record of delivering value. You will need:

• Strong experience as a Business Analyst delivering across complex digital, cloud, or transformation programmes.

• Excellent communication and facilitation skills, including senior stakeholder engagement.

• Ability to structure problems, define requirements, and guide teams through discovery and delivery.

• Comfortable with relational database/data modelling concepts, and basic SQL. Understanding of APIs, data pipelines, and ETL processes.

• Understanding of data stewardship, lineage, and compliance requirements.

• Hands‑on experience producing Power BI dashboards or similar lightweight visualisations.

• Awareness of ML/AI concepts sufficient to shape requirements, evaluate business impact of potential use cases and identify where automation or predictive capability could add value.

• A proactive, growth‑oriented mindset with the ability to support and mentor other analysts, driving data literacy across the practice.

What we can offer you:

We will give you a place to strive and grow, where you will have the opportunity to work on interesting, yet challenging projects. Applying your thinking to build a better world founded on intelligent technologies.

We are a people-first business, which means people are at the heart of everything we do here. We offer our consultants a safe environment where knowledge sharing, and open communication is encouraged. Whether at one of the internal monthly events, such as Lunch & Learns, Tech Time, and internal competency meet-ups, or at one of our community groups, such as football, gaming, yoga, or wellbeing; we have strived to build a business where everyone feels welcomed, included, and valued.