Digital Data, Analytics and AI Manager (Engineering & Migration Specialism)

Succeed by shaping what matters We’re BDO, one of the UK’s largest accountancy and business advisory organisations, helping ambitious businesses, their owners and management teams navigate a changing world. With circa 8,500 people across the UK and Ireland, backed by a global network spanning 169 countries, there’s lots of knowledge, experience and different thinking to draw on here. But what matters is what you bring to it; your ideas, perspectives - the things you care about getting right. So, here’s where you come in: The team you’ll join At BDO, our Consulting practice brings together different areas of expertise to help organisations solve complex problems and make better decisions. We work across the mid-market, public sector and large enterprises, supporting clients through growth, change and new challenges.  Our multidisciplinary approach means we can bring together the right people and perspectives for the problem in front of us, whether that’s helping an organisation grow, become more resilient or work differently.  We work as one community of consultants, sharing our expertise and learning from each other as we go. Whether we’re working with scale-ups or global institutions, our approach is consistent: we listen, we challenge, and we work with our clients to find a way forward.  The role you'll have We are looking for data and analytics specialist at Manager level to join our Digital team, part of Consulting. You'll focus on data migration alongside data engineering, governance or analytics. This role is ideal for someone with experience leading data-led engagements within consulting or project environments, combining practical technical expertise with strong delivery and client management skills. We are looking for an individual who can lead migrations from source assessment and planning through transformation, testing and cutover, while helping clients build reliable data foundations and turn data into insights. The role includes ownership of project delivery, stakeholder relationships and team development, supported by strong problem-solving skills, intellectual curiosity and a practical, commercially aware approach. You'll be someone with Experience in translating business requirements into appropriate data architectures, data models and analytics solutions, including dashboards and reports that support decision-making Proven experience leading data migration projects or workstreams, from source discovery and profiling through mapping, cleansing, transformation, trial migrations, testing, reconciliation, cutover and post-migration support. Experience defining migration testing and reconciliation approaches, managing data quality issues and defects, documenting evidence and acceptance criteria, coordinating business validation/sign-off. Practical understanding of data migration patterns including full and incremental loads, change data capture, source-to-target mapping, reconciliation, cutover and performance optimisation Strong hands-on experience with modern data engineering platforms such as Databricks and/or Microsoft Fabric, Experience managing consulting engagements or multidisciplinary project teams Practical experience developing production-grade data pipelines and transformations using Python, PySpark and SQL Experience designing and implementing lakehouse or modern data platform architectures, including technologies such as Delta Lake, Azure Data Lake Storage and equivalent cloud-native services. Hands-on experience with enterprise ETL/ELT and orchestration technologies You’ll have people around you to learn from, ask questions and share thoughts with, alongside learning programmes to enhance your skillset and digital platforms to ease your work. All of this helps you succeed in achieving those big (and personal) dreams. How you’ll succeed You’ll have plenty of ways to develop at BDO; you might build deeper expertise in what you already do, take on something new or simply get better at the things that matter to you. How and where you work matters too. Our agile working framework is designed around our Better Together approach: bringing more in-person time with clients and teams, creating more opportunities to share ideas, build confidence and develop day-to-day. Whatever success looks like to you, you won’t be shaping it alone. You’ll have people around you who want you to do well, and plenty of opportunities to make it all count. That’s how we’ll all continue to succeed by shaping what matters. Apply now. At BDO, we want everyone to feel included, valued and able to succeed. We welcome people from all backgrounds and are committed to improving access to opportunities – work we've been recognised for as Company of the Year at the 2026 British Diversity Awards. Because we know different experiences and perspectives make us stronger. We’re BDO, an award-winning, 8,500-strong UK and Ireland team, working across Audit, Advisory, Tax and Business Services & Outsourcing. Our clients range from ambitious, founder-led businesses to FTSE 100 companies and international organisations. For you, this means opportunities to take on all kinds of challenges. Here, that scale comes with something more personal. Supported to grow and trusted to take ownership, you’ll be encouraged to make your contribution count from the get-go.