Lantern

A specialist practice within Mirador

Consultancy discipline with delivery expertise

Lantern connects strategic consultancy with practical programme delivery. Working within the Mirador governance framework, we provide experienced practitioners to support the execution of complex change initiatives across technology, data, AI, and operations. As a result, we are a delivery capability embedded within a consultancy framework.

Our focus is on demonstrable experience, structured delivery discipline, and accountable execution within regulated and high-complexity environments.

OUR PROPOSITION

Focused expertise for complex business and technology transformation

We deliver specialist capability to your firm across four key areas:

Technology

Platform change, systems integration, software engineering, infrastructure and cloud.

Data

Data engineering, governance, migration, master data and data-quality frameworks.

AI and Analytics

AI strategy, applied data science, automation, machine learning and analytics.

Transformation

Programme leadership, PMO, business analysis, testing and organisational change.

OUR CAPABILITIES

The expertise behind our delivery

Specialist delivery experience

Specialists with proven experience delivering comparable programmes within complex financial institutions.
Every practitioner is known to us through successful delivery and established working relationships.
Deep expertise across data, technology, business change and investment operations.

1 Platform and product expertise

Demonstratable experience working with the core platforms, products and technologies used across investment management organisations.
Broad capability across order management, portfolio management, investment accounting and adjacent operational systems.
Delivery experience across major change initiatives, bringing both client and vendor perspectives to transformation programmes.

2 Programme-aligned teams

Transformation, data, configuration and testing specialists.
Business analysts and project managers with buy-side delivery track records.
Individual specialists or integrated teams, aligned to each phase of the programme.

3 WHY LANTERN

Our value proposition

Experience-led delivery guided by four core principles.

Deep domain knowledge

Practitioners with hands-on experience across investment operations, technology, data and transformation. Front to back across OMS and PMS, risk, operations, data and AI.

Consultancy-led governance

Structured oversight, quality assurance and accountability through the Mirador framework. Programme governance, QA gates and a named point of contact for the duration of the engagement.

Flexible delivery

Individual practioners or specialist teams aligned to a project, a workstream or a single programme phase. Capability scales with the programme as requirements evolve.

Trusted relationships

An established community of professionals known through relevant delivery experience. You meet and approve every individual before they join your programme.

DELIVERY APPROACH

A disciplined mobilisation cycle

Transformation programmes rarely require a single mobilisation effort. As priorities evolve and new phases of work begin, additional specialist expertise is often needed to support delivery. Maintaining a consistent standard of capability throughout that lifecycle is critical.

Without a structured approach, there is a risk that requirements become less clearly defined, assessment standards vary, and valuable programme context is lost as new resources are introduced. Over time, this can affect continuity, efficiency and delivery outcomes.

Our mobilisation process applies the same rigorous standards at every stage of an engagement. By maintaining a consistent approach to assessment, selection and onboarding, we help clients preserve programme continuity and ensure that specialist capability remains aligned to delivery objectives from initial discovery through to implementation and ongoing support.

Understand

Programme objectives and capability requirements

1 Identify

Practitioners with relevant delivery experience

2 Qualify

Structured assessment against the brief

3 Deploy

Client review, onboarding and mobilisation

4 Govern

Continuity, oversight and quality assurance

5 Capability aligned to every stage of the transformation lifecycle

Strategy

Design

Build

Migration

Testing

Go live

Optimise

Programme leadership throughout. Architecture, engineering, data, business analysis, testing, change and PMO deployed when required.

WHERE LANTERN SITS

One group brand. Three services.

Mirador Solutions brings together three distinct service lines, each with its own specialism, client relationships, and delivery model. While united under the Mirador brand, each service can be engaged independently and operates as a standalone offering.

Strategic Consultancy

Strategy, roadmap, governance and operating model design across technology, data and alternatives, from advisory through to assurance and implementation.

Fractional Leadership

Named, senior, embedded leadership. A Fractional CTO or equivalent who owns strategy, governance and delivery for as long as the organisation needs it.

Lantern Technical Services

Specialist delivery capability. Experienced practitioners and programme-aligned teams who build and run the work inside your organisation.