Tech Stack
Amazon RedshiftAWSAzureBigQueryCloudETLGoogle Cloud PlatformNumpyPandasPythonSQLTableau
About the role
- Serve as a strategic thought partner to C-suite executives on data initiatives, understanding client personas (CFO, CIO, CHRO, CAO) and advising on harnessing data to support strategic goals.
- Advise clients on establishing a technology and data strategy program that democratizes data, leverages modern cloud platforms, promotes data management, uncovers critical control needs, monitors data quality, and more.
- Enhance clients’ technology stack and serve as Solution Architect to implement, collect, store, transform, process, and analyze data in a single source of truth consistently, efficiently, and without siloes.
- Architect and design scalable, secure, and high-performance data solutions across multiple cloud platforms.
- Lead end-to-end data solution implementation, including ingestion, storage, transformation, and visualization using tools like Snowflake, Databricks, Amazon Redshift, Google BigQuery, Azure Synapse Analytics, Fivetran, Talend, PowerBI, Tableau, and Sigma Computing.
- Collaborate with business stakeholders, data engineers, and developers to define technical requirements and best practices.
- Develop and enforce data governance, security, and compliance standards across data platforms.
- Optimize data pipelines and ETL processes for performance, scalability, and cost efficiency.
- Evaluate emerging technologies and recommend solutions to improve data infrastructure and analytics capabilities.
- Provide technical guidance and mentorship to data engineers and other team members.
- Ensure seamless integration of data platforms within the enterprise architecture.
- Support clients with the design and implementation of forecasting and predictive analytics models.
- Interview clients to identify root causes of challenges; define and document business requirements.
- Conduct current state / future state gap analysis for business and data processes.
- Create executive level communications and presentations.
- Contribute to go-to-market strategy and practice-specific programs.
Requirements
- Prior experience managing client and/or internal teams by guiding performance against objectives, creating an atmosphere of trust and collaboration, and encouraging continuous improvement and innovation.
- Experience and proficiency advising clients on modernizing their data architecture and using data analytics tools for cleansing and visualization (e.g., Tableau, Power BI, Alteryx).
- Knowledge of project management methodologies (e.g., Agile, Scrum, Lean, Waterfall).
- Understanding of key finance (and other) processes like Lead to Cash / Order to Cash, Procure to Pay, Record to Report, Hire to Retire.
- Experience in supporting Large Enterprise organizations, Private Equity portfolio companies or Private Equity sponsors preferred.
- 5+ years of professional experience leading initiatives or client engagements with a focus on data strategy, data architecture, data engineering, or cloud-based analytics solutions, dealing with large data sets and interpreting data to draw meaningful insights and recommendations.
- Experience in implementation of Snowflake, Databricks, Amazon Redshift, Azure Synapse Analytics.
- Hands-on experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or GCP.
- Experience managing technical teams focused on delivering analytical products and solutions.
- Experience with ETL/ELT pipelines, data lake architectures, and real-time data processing.
- Understanding of data security best practices, compliance standards, and access control.
- Excellent problem-solving skills and ability to work in a fast-paced, agile environment.
- Strong communication skills with the ability to convey technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.
- Bachelor’s degree or higher in Business, Finance, Economics, Engineering, Information Systems, Mathematics, Data Science, or a similar discipline.
- Proficiency in SQL.
- Understanding of Python programming language (emphasis on Pandas, NumPy, matplotlib packages).
- MBA / CPA [preferred].
- Certification in Snowflake / Alteryx / PowerBI / Tableau [preferred].
- SnowPro Advanced Certification [highly preferred].
- Willingness to travel based on client preferences.