Head of Data Practice

Who we are looking for We are looking for a seasoned leader with a strong consulting, data technology, and data management background, who will shape Lingaro’s Data Platform Practice. The position will drive the aforesaid practice with a mission to supporting our customers to maximize the ROI of all data related investments through optimization of existing or migration to modernized data platforms promising a robust architecture, better data management and improved performance. This is a high growth area and a high visibility role with plenty of opportunities to enhance your skillset and build your career working for Fortune Global 500 companies. The role will report to the Head of Data Technology Consulting and will be part of the Data Technology Consulting leadership team. We are looking for an experienced leader with a hands-on technical background and a proven track record in the same or similar Head level role in a well-established consulting company**Responsibilities**:- Creating a long-term strategy to develop the Data Platform Practice with the respective team, capabilities and client offering portfolio to meet current and new unmet demand from customers and market.- Support in the generation of leads through thought leadership: articles, analysis, white papers, public presentations, webinars etc.- Gather outside-in perspective, generation/adoption/implementation of innovative ideas, and development of accelerators.- Advising and working with senior client executives on how to govern, process and manage data more effectively, and implement modern and innovative technology solutions, becoming the “trusted advisor”.- Lead technology assessments to help clients improve capabilities from current state to the target state of maturity by creating technology roadmaps and implementation plans together with quantified value realization measures.- Lead the effective collaboration with sales and account management to cater to needs of both new and existing customers.- Provide technical pre-sales services to customers and participate in the creation of customer proposals, statement of work (SOWs) and project scoping calls.- Collection of lessons learnt from delivery engagements to continuously improve the consulting services and Lingaro’s knowledgebase.- Support knowledge and skills capacity enablement in Delivery teams.- Collaborate with Lingaro’s technology Partners to evolve existing frameworks, methodologies, and best practices in the delivery of data technology engagements and creation of joined consulting delivery plans.- Lead, mentor, support and coach data platform technology consultants and help them in identifying and creating repeatable methodologies and templates for effectively delivering data platform solutions.- Keep the practice at the forefront of the Data Technology Consulting (by interacting with the ecosystem, attending conferences, getting certifications, interactions with external advisors, reading articles )- Participate and develop personal branding in knowledge sharing communities - internally and externally. Information Sensitivity: General\Internal**Required Skills, Knowledge and Experience**- Must have proven experience on GCP based data management ecosystems. One or more the below certifications needed: - GCP Certified Professional Cloud Architect. - GCP Certified Associate Cloud Engineer. - GCP Certified Professional Data Engineer.- Experience in building data management solutions on at least another cloud platform such as Azure and AWS- 15+ years hands-on experience in multiple data management areas such as data architecture, data platform solution architecture, data modeling, data quality and observability, data stewardship, master data management, metadata management, data operations, data security etc.- Excellent command over implementation of modern data architectures such as Data Fabric, Data Mesh, and Data Lakehouse.- Experience in implementation of solutions leveraging commercial or open-source products in data cataloging, data quality, and/or observability.- 7+ years in a consulting role leading Data Platform development initiative. Experience leading technology consulting practices.- Experienced in building relationships with directors and C-levels stakeholders by developing a deep understanding of the customer business and driving data-driven insights.- Hands-on experience in running customer workshops and other collaboration sessions to discover customer priorities, understand current state, and determine maturity/readiness to execute data platform modernizations.- Deep understanding of modern technology trends and data stacks in data management and governance.- Experience in definition and development of new consulting service offerings as well as developing white papers and best practices. - Ability to deliver consulting services to:- Help our customers better leverage native services on cloud to deliver a highly efficient data