Practice Leader/Data Practice Lead - Data Engineering

Data Engineering Practice leader

The Data Practice Lead will be accountable for driving the next level of growth, strategic positioning, and P&L management of the Data Engineering practice.

Key Responsibilities :

- Work with Executive Leadership on formulating differentiated partnership, co-selling, GTM, business development and account management / account growth strategies for the practice, driven by differentiated solutions & services offerings

- Growing the Data Engineering business by helping customers identify opportunities to deliver improved business outcomes, designing and driving the implementation of those solutions

- Growing & retaining the Data Engineering team with appropriate skills and experience to deliver high quality services to our customers

- Supporting and developing our people, including learning & development, certification & career development plans

- Providing technical governance and oversight for solution design and implementation

- Leading team in the definition of best practices & repeatable methodologies in Data Engineering, including Data Storage, ETL, Data Integration & Migration, Data Warehousing and Data Governance

- Contributing to Sales & Pre-sales activities including proposals, pursuits, demonstrations and proof of concept initiatives

- Evangelizing the Data Engineering service offerings to both internal and external stakeholders

- Development of Whitepapers, blogs, webinars and other though leadership material

- Development of Go-to-Market and Service Offering definitions for Data Engineering

- Working with Learning & Development teams to establish appropriate learning & certification paths for their domain

- Expand the business within existing accounts and help clients, by building and sustaining strategic executive relationships, doubling up as their trusted business technology advisor

- Position differentiated and custom solutions to clients, based on the market trends, specific needs of the clients and the supporting business cases

- Build new Data capabilities, solutions, assets, accelerators and team competencies

- Manage multiple opportunities through the entire business cycle simultaneously, working with cross-functional teams as necessary

Requirements:

- Bachelor's Degree in engineering with 15+ years of experience in delivering data solutions using Agile Methodologies

- Proven relevant experience as a delivery head or practice head building Data engineering capabilities and services

- Prior experience of playing a leadership role in Data transformation programs

- Experience working with a matrix organization of sales, delivery and marketing teams across the globe

- Proven business partnering and relationships skills

- Experience in working on proposals, presales activities and business development

- Results driven, digital native, with extensive experience in data technologies

- Resilient and resourceful, not afraid to roll up your sleeves when needed

- Thriving in a multicultural and multi-locations environment

- Excellent presentation skills to be able to accommodate conduct meetings with C-level clients

- Excellent leadership skills including influencing people, problem-solving skills, people management and visioning

- Build relationships with stakeholders within customers and build lasting relationships