Senior Consultant, Digital & Insights, Data Science

About the role

FTI Consulting, a global expert firm for organisations facing crisis and transformation, is looking for a data and digital communications practitioner to join its London-based Digital & Insights practice. The role sits in the firm's multi-practice team and the global Digital & Insights group, supporting the data and analytics team across EMEA and APAC. It involves working with subject matter experts to build holistic solutions for clients, using communications and reputational data, natural language processing, data engineering and AI.

Key responsibilities

• Support projects in audience and influencer insights, conversation and media analysis, campaign and message performance, and event assessment
• Lead implementation of solutions on small-scale insights projects and contribute to larger teams
• Collect and analyse data with existing platforms and tools, applying AI technology, strategy and practice
• Use qualitative, statistical and machine learning approaches to interpret data and combine information from multiple sources
• Build and support custom solutions, applications and processing pipelines with other data scientists
• Detect patterns, trends and drivers, predict developments and visualise similarities and differences
• Create compelling reports and presentations, and help develop client decks and pitches
• Evaluate analytics adoption, introduce new tools and techniques, and support new business with data-driven insights

Required profile

• Experience in data science, data engineering or decision science roles
• Proven competency with AI platforms and solutions, including algorithmic and agentic categories (e.g. AI vendor APIs, open-source tooling such as LlamaIndex, HuggingFace, Claude Code)
• Ability to turn complex data into clear insights and to create compelling visualisations
• Strong verbal and written communication and presentation skills
• Excellent English

Required skills

• Python, SQL and Excel
• GitHub collaboration
• AWS or other cloud platforms
• Preferred: data visualisation tools (Graphext, Tableau), digital listening tools (Brandwatch, Talkwalker, Meltwater), journalism/media/communications expertise, SEO/GEO/AIO, production-level Python, graph data science, web automation (Selenium), Terraform and DevOps

What we offer

• Professional development programs covering leadership, growth and certifications, with on-the-job learning and coaching sessions
• Tailored programs for key career milestones