Senior Architect, Data Engineering

West Monroe is seeking a Senior Architect to join our growing Technology & Experience. This leader will structure, lead, support, drive, and grow West Monroe's Data Engineering and Analytics discipline and associated offerings in collaboration with other leaders across the practice and firm. 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.

What you'll do:

• Serve as a delivery leader on engagements of moderate-to-high complexity and scale, communicating with client sponsors directly without oversight, and exemplifying engagement management, client relationship, client satisfaction, risk management, and delivery team management skills.
• Oversee engagement scope, budget, deliverables, profitability, work management and reporting, change management, vendor management, and team development.
• Provide guidance and platform selection advice for Databricks and/or Snowflake.
• Design data flow and processing pipelines for analysis using modern toolsets such as Spark on Scala, Storm, Flume, Sqoop.
• Design data structures for ingestion and reporting, specific to use case and technology.
• Provide data management expertise to our clients in evaluating requirements and developing data architecture and performing platform selection and design. Data management includes appropriate structuring, stewardship of data, semantics/syntax of data attributes, coding structures, and mapping schemes.
• Partner with business development teams to identify client needs, propose tailored solutions, and build long-term relationships with key stakeholders to drive revenue growth opportunities.
• Collaborate on crafting compelling proposals, presentations, and technical demonstrations that showcase innovative architecture solutions and align with client objectives to win new business.
• Manage and mentor a team of consultants, fostering their professional growth and development.
• Provide quality assurance review on junior team members' approaches and deliverables.
• Promote a collaborative and inclusive team environment that prioritizes client success.
• Represent West Monroe at industry events, conferences, and networking opportunities.
• Actively engage in recruiting, interviewing, and selecting campus and experienced new hire consultants.

What you'll bring:

• 8+ years of data engineering and analytics experience.

• 3+ years of experience working in a consulting environment.

• Deep technical knowledge of Databricks and/or Snowflake.

• Experience with LLM - Large Language Model.

• Knowledge of standard methodologies, concepts, best practices, and procedures within a Big Data environment.

• Development or architecture of modern distributed architectures using modern messaging patterns and tools.

• Strong data engineering experience with the following core competencies:

• Experience with Databricks, Snowflake, and/or Fabric.

• Experience working with relational databases (Microsoft SQL Server) and working with large unstructured data sets.

• Strong experience with ETL procedures and ideation from scratch.

• Experience using cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, GCP etc.

• Experience with reporting tools such as PowerBI and Tableau.

• Working knowledge or experience working with Azure SQL, Azure Data Lake or Azure Data Factory.

• Proven success achieving in-year revenue expectations, including identifying client needs, crafting technical solutions, contributing to proposals, and participating in pre-sales activities to drive revenue growth.

• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills including the ability to create impactful and concise executive stakeholder-ready deliverables, and polished client-facing oral communication skills.

• Demonstrated success within one or more of West Monroe's core industries including Consumer & Industrial Products, Healthcare (payer/provider), Life Sciences, High Tech & Software, Utilities, Insurance, Banking, and/or Private Equity.

• A commitment to inclusion and diversity, and openness to new ideas and perspectives.

• Ability to travel to client sites as needed (30% to 50%).