Data, Analytics & Insights – Executive Advisor
Role Purpose
As an Executive Advisor, you will lead work winning and executive-level delivery across Data, Analytics & Insights engagements, with a particular focus on defining data strategies and establishing strong data management practices. You will act as a trusted advisor to senior stakeholders, shaping data-driven transformation programs, building repeatable offerings aligned to core engineering services, and setting the commercial and delivery rhythm required for sustainable growth.
Preferred Offices
Include Houston, Philadelphia, Atlanta, Boston, Rosemont
Hybrid Work Model
Join us in the office three days a week to contribute, connect and excel in our vibrant environment. Working with an energetic and high performing team, this position offers a variety of work and will see you involved in:
- Client Leadership & Stakeholder Management
- Position GHD as a trusted advisor for data strategy, data governance, and digital transformation in infrastructure
- Lead conversations on how data is structured, governed, and leveraged to drive better outcomes
- Translate complex data, technical, and commercial concepts into clear executive decisions
- Work Winning, Market Development & Offer Leadership
- Shape opportunities in data strategy, data management, and analytics transformation across priority sectors
- Develop and scale offerings spanning data governance, architecture, and information management
- Align market demand with GHD’s engineering and advisory capabilities
- Delivery Leadership & Executive Technical Oversight
- Lead large-scale engagements spanning data strategy, data architecture, and data management frameworks
- Define end-to-end solutions—from data foundations and integration through to analytics and AI
- Ensure solutions are scalable, secure, governed, and aligned with client operating models
- Capability Building
- Build and scale teams with strengths in data strategy, governance, and enterprise data management
- Mentor teams on best practices across data lifecycle, quality, and controls
- Strengthen GHD’s data-led advisory capability
- Core Capability Areas
- Data Strategy & Operating Models: vision, roadmaps, business cases
- Data Management & Governance: ownership, standards, quality, lineage, compliance
- Data Foundations: architecture, platforms, security, lifecycle management
- Data Integration: ingestion, transformation, interoperability, data quality
- Decision Intelligence: BI, self-serve analytics, ML, AI & GenAI
What You Will Bring to the Team
- 12+ years of experience in data strategy and enterprise data management
- Strong track record in data-driven transformation, including governance, architecture, and analytics
- Experience building and leading high-performing teams
- Prominent ability to engage executive stakeholders and convert relationships into work
- Clear communication of complex data and technical concepts at senior levels
- To oversee high-quality deliverables including reports, dashboards, and strategic roadmaps
- Commercially minded, pragmatic, and outcomes-focused
- A strong advocate for data-led decision-making and governance discipline
- Collaborative and inclusive leadership style
- Comfortable operating in ambiguity and shaping emerging opportunities
About Us
Take on some of the world’s toughest challenges - with GHD supporting you every step of the way. We'll give you control over your career, empower you to find innovative solutions and help you create a lasting impact. See where your commitment could take you with GHD. Our Pledge to You At GHD, we don’t just believe in the power of commitment, we live and breathe it every day. That’s why we pledge to empower our people to make a positive impact. Combining our deep technical expertise with the capabilities of our clients and partners, we respond to some of the most complex challenges facing our planet today. See where your commitment could take you. That’s the #PowerOfCommitment
Who We Are
GHD is a global professional services company that leads through engineering, architecture, and construction expertise. We are an employee-owned company with over 11,000 diverse and skilled individuals, across more than 200 offices spanning five continents. The Power of Commitment is our brand promise. It’s what makes us different. We are bound to our stated vision and determination to address humanity’s most urgent needs: to make water, energy and urbanization sustainable for generations to come.