Technical D&A Consultant

Responsibilities

• Create, execute, and manage implementation and project plans for multiple customers, including scope, milestones, dependencies, risks, testing, acceptance, and handoff activities.
• Translate client business, reporting, analytics, and AI use cases into clear technical requirements, data requirements, integration designs, and implementation deliverables.
• Guide clients through data dictionaries, field definitions, business rules, metadata, data lineage, file layouts, refresh expectations, and related documentation.
• Partner with technical implementation teams to configure and validate connectors, data feeds, APIs, exports, permissions, network requirements, and related integration components.
• Help clients connect RealPage data to customer-owned data warehouses and platforms such as Power BI, Tableau, Looker, Qlik, Snowflake, Databricks, Azure Synapse, or other reporting and analytics solutions.
• Perform or oversee data validation, reconciliation, testing, and acceptance; identify data quality issues, missing data, defects, and integration problems and drive resolution.
• Troubleshoot customer data, integration, network, permissions, SQL/Postgres, and configuration issues, escalating appropriately to Product, Engineering, Support, or other internal teams.
• Provide consultative guidance, training, and enablement to technical and business stakeholders so clients can sustain and expand their data solution after implementation.

Qualifications

• Strong consultative, project management, and client relationship skills; ability to manage multiple priorities, dependencies, and deadlines simultaneously.
• Expertise in data concepts including data dictionaries, schemas, field definitions, source-to-target mappings, data lineage, refresh cycles, data quality, and reconciliation.
• Working knowledge of Google Cloud Platform, BigQuery, Data Lakes, Data Warehouses, Data Lakehouses, etc.
• Working knowledge of data integration patterns, connectors, APIs, file-based feeds, authentication, network permissions, and customer-owned data warehouse environments.
• Working knowledge of SQL and relational data concepts, including joins, aggregates, filtering, core functions, and the ability to investigate customer data issues.
• Ability to understand how data is consumed by reporting and analytics platforms, including Power BI and other customer BI tools.
• Familiarity with RealPage solutions a plus, including Business Intelligence, Performance Analytics, Lumina Ascent, and BI Exchange.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving ability, with attention to detail and the ability to translate complicated technical information into practical recommendations.
• Executive-level written, verbal, and presentation skills, with the ability to facilitate discovery sessions, technical workshops, status meetings, testing reviews, and decision-making discussions.
• Ability to work independently while collaborating effectively with D&A Consulting, Technical Implementations, Product, Engineering, Support, Sales, and Account Management.
• Experience creating reusable documentation, automated or long-term solutions, implementation standards, and processes that improve quality and reduce cycle time.
• Experience with Microsoft Office products, Salesforce, SharePoint, and collaboration tools such as Teams.