Lead Data Strategist
Job Description
Leveraging industry and technical expertise to collaborate with client stakeholders to turn vague concepts into actionable insights, and to maximize the value of client data across the organization.
Interpreting and delivering impactful strategic plans improving data integration, data quality, and data delivery in support of business initiatives and roadmaps.
Assessing and advocating data management technologies and practices, eliminating gaps between the current state and targeted future state.
Formulating and articulating architectural trade-offs across solution options before recommending a solution, ensuring client technical requirements are met.
Motivating and developing team members through coaching, teaching, empowering, and influencing technical and consulting skills.
Partnering with portfolio team to demonstrate technical capabilities, envision valuable solutions, estimate proposed work plans, and recommend team composition talent to support delivery.
Working in a fast-paced environment, simultaneously supporting internal CapTech initiatives and leading client engagements.
Qualifications
- 14+ years of leading large technical teams and projects.
- 10+ years of experience implementing a wide variety of on-premises and cloud data management platforms and technologies.
- Proven track record of assessing traditional and modern data architectures based on business needs in a consultative approach.
- Experience with the modern data stack/platform technologies, products, and approaches.
- Delivery experience on multiple cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP).
- Deep background with integrations and transformations of numerous types of data sources, and the solution delivery of real-time data distribution (e.g., Kafka, Kinesis, Flink), NoSQL (e.g., MongoDB, DynamoDB, Firebase), and warehousing platforms.
- History of conducting/implementing strategic data assessments, data governance frameworks, and data quality measurements.
- 5+ years of scoping technical engagements within consulting services