Data Engineering Director

West Monroe has an opportunity for a strategic Data Engineering Director to join our Technology practice. This leader will structure, lead, support, drive, and grow West Monroe's Technology Data Engineering practice and associated offerings in collaboration with other leaders across the company. This role will focus on delivering transformational modern data platforms, data strategy, and cloud solutions as well as providing clients with thought-leadership on applying new technologies to innovate their business. This leader will be responsible for key client account ownership, scoping, selling, and acting as the engagement lead for large scale data projects.

Directors within West Monroe have three main responsibilities:

Business Development:

• Drive opportunity origination at existing clients, qualify leads and collaborate on pursuits for new work and build deep relationships
• Hunt new strategic clients - using relationships and other proven business development skills
• Collaborate with industry and multidisciplinary teams to identify sales opportunities
• Initiate and lead business development meetings with prospective clients
• Understand client needs and requirements and help turn those goals into concrete engagements and detailed proposals that highlight quantifiable value creation
• Create work plans, pricing estimates, and risk assessments for prospects
• Attend networking events and actively build and leverage a professional network and affiliate network in the local community

Client Delivery:

• Support and lead teams serving clients across industries while demonstrating executive presence with high level client counterparts.
• Manage and influence multi-disciplinary teams to translate client business objectives into data and analytics solutions; collaborate with data engineering, industry, and product teams to deliver impactful results for our clients
• Provide quality assurance and conduct frequent touch bases with client executives to ensure value is realized and understood from our engagements
• Understand and support the underlying business processes and technologies being used within an organization to be able to make recommendations on how to achieve long-term scalability, reduce operational cost, or better support business processes
• Ensure proper management of project economics including: project budgets, invoicing, and the collection process

Practice Development:

• Collaborate with national and local leadership within Data Engineering & Analytics practice and across West Monroe industry and functional practices, to develop and deliver multi-disciplinary, data-driven offerings
• Develop knowledge of emerging modern data platforms, Databricks, Snowflake, cloud (GCP, AWS, and/or Azure), data strategy, data governance, and data visualization (Tableau, PowerBI, Looker, etc.)
• Lead, mentor and grow data engineering consultants and actively participate in the career advisory and performance management process
• Actively participate in recruiting and retaining top quality data engineers
• Collaborate in growth around strategy, approach, offerings, staffing, skill development, methodology, and new account development
• Collaborate with local office leadership to ensure alignment with the office culture, define the strategic direction of the Technology team, and actively lead entrepreneurial activities to expand offerings and the skills of the team.
• Coach and manage other consultants and actively participate in the performance management process

Qualifications:

• 10+ years participating in team-based, client-facing business and technology consulting services
• 8+ years of experience leading teams of data professionals doing hand-on design, build, configure, implement work
• Requisite depth in one or more key data platform technologies - Databricks, GCP, and / or Snowflake
• Entrepreneurial spirit and willingness to innovate on new and emerging solutions
• Demonstrated success within one or more of West Monroe's core industries including Healthcare (payer/provider, life sciences), Utilities, Insurance, Banking, and/or Private Equity
• A commitment to inclusion and diversity, and openness to new ideas and perspectives
• Ability to Travel, as required based on client and practice demands (expected30%)