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1 year ago
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Principle Data Consultant | Expert Thinking | Azure / AWS | Permanent | Boutique Consultancy | remote-first | strong culture / greenfield Data Projects | Ex-AWS


For Expert Thinking - a thought leader within Cloud and Data and remote-first boutique consultancy - we’re seekingexceptional individualswho embody excellence and demonstrate an unwavering commitment to delivering transformative results. The successful candidate will be avisionary Data Consultantwho thrives in a high-performance environment, possesses an entrepreneurial spirit and has strongcommercial acumento drive pre-sales activities and stakeholder engagement.


The company - Expert Thinking

Expert Thinking is the go-to partner for greenfield Data and Cloud projects in the industry, they help clients to improve cloud & Data maturity, accelerate cloud & Data adoption and drive costs savings. Expert Thinking houses an impressive collective of knowledgeable consultants with backgrounds varying from AWS and UBS to Contino and Pax8.

It's the perfect place to accelerate your growth, enhance your leadership, and sharpen your technical acumen—all while making a meaningful impact on your clients.


Values and Mindset

  • Demonstrates arelentless pursuit of excellenceand continuous improvement
  • Takesfull ownershipof outcomes and consistently exceeds expectations
  • Exhibitsthought leadershipand drives innovation in the data platform space
  • Showsresilience and determinationin overcoming complex challenges


Professional Attributes

  • Possesses agrowth mindsetand actively seeks opportunities to expand capabilities
  • Builds and nurturesstrong relationshipswith clients and team members
  • Approaches problems withcreativity and strategic thinking
  • Maintainscomposure under pressurewhile delivering exceptional results
  • Exceptional communication and stakeholder management skills, able to engage with technical and non-technical audiences


Leadership & Commercial Qualities

  • Acts as amentor and role model, elevating the performance of those around them
  • Drivesstrategic initiativeswith clear vision and purpose
  • Demonstratescommercial acumen, identifying opportunities to deliver business value through data solutions
  • Leadspre-sales engagements, working with customers to define theirdata strategy, architecture, and implementation roadmap
  • Collaborates withsales and business development teamsto create compelling proposals and secure new projects
  • Championsorganizational goalsand inspires others to achieve excellence


Experience & Technical Skills

  • 3+ yearsof experience leadinghigh-performing engineering teamsin a customer-facing and hands-on role
  • Extensive experience buildingperformant, scalable, and secure Azure Data Platformsolutions for enterprise customers
  • Proven experience intechnical pre-sales, guiding customers through defining and implementing solutions that meet their requirements
  • Strongstakeholder engagementexperience, able totranslate complex technical concepts into business value
  • Broad knowledgeof modern data platform solutions acrossmultiple public cloudofferings
  • Expertise in cloud-native engineeringapproaches and methodologies
  • Deep technical expertise withdata models, data mining, and segmentation techniques
  • Proficiency inETL, SQL and e.g.Python, Go or Rfor data manipulation and analysis, with the ability to build, maintain, and deploy sequences of automated processes


Bonus Experience (Nice to Have)

  • Familiarity withdbt, Fivetran, Apache Airflow, Data Mesh, Data Vault 2.0, Fabric, and Apache Spark
  • Experience working withstreaming technologiessuch asApache Kafka, Apache Flink, or Google Cloud Dataflow
  • Hands-on experience withmodern data orchestration toolslikeDagster or Prefect
  • Knowledge ofdata governanceand cataloging tools likeGreat Expectations, Collibra, or Alation
  • Experience inpricing, scoping, and proposal developmentfor data engineering projects


Ready to take your career to the next level, join Expert Thinking!


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