Data Services Principal Leader

Attain Partners

3d•$200,000 - $250,000

About The Position

The Data Services Principal Leader is a senior executive leadership position responsible for growing, scaling, and maturing Attain Partners' Data Services capabilities across Advisory Services, Technology Services, and Data Storage Services. The leader owns technical strategy, market-facing offerings, capability maturity, solution architecture, service quality, and leadership development across the assigned service pillars. The role connects business growth, client needs, technology partnerships, and successful solution delivery, working closely with the Data Services & Analytics Practice Leader, Domain Solution Leaders, Analytics Services leadership, and Technical Delivery Management. The position drives revenue growth, develops repeatable and commercially viable offerings, expands technology partnerships, strengthens presales and solutioning, creates recurring-revenue opportunities, improves delivery excellence, develops technical leaders, enables cross-pillar solutions, and advances AI-enabled services. It provides executive oversight for Advisory Services (Data Strategy, Data Advisory, and Data Governance), Technology Services (Data Integrations, Data Migrations, and Master Data Management), and Data Storage Services (Data Lake Advisory and Data Warehousing). The leader will build service definitions, roadmaps, methodologies, delivery approaches, quality expectations, packaged offerings, and reusable accelerators. The role leads technical solutioning and architecture for complex opportunities, establishes technical standards and governance, supports successful transitions from presales to delivery, and provides escalation leadership for significant technical risks and client situations. It also develops pillar leaders and technical capability owners, aligns talent investments with anticipated demand, and collaborates across industry domains and Analytics Services. Success is measured through growth and revenue enablement, portfolio and capability development, partnerships and market position, technical quality and delivery performance, and leadership and talent development. The position requires periodic travel based on business and client needs. Attain Partners offers a comprehensive benefits package beginning on the first day of employment. The stated base salary range is $200,000–$250,000 USD, and the role is eligible for an annual discretionary bonus.

Requirements

15+ years of experience in enterprise data services, technology consulting, systems integration, cloud data platforms, or data transformation.
Proven experience leading technical consulting teams, service lines, or multi-capability practices.
Demonstrated success developing, scaling, and commercializing data and technology services.
Strong background in enterprise data architecture, integration, migration, governance, Master Data Management, and modern data platforms.
Experience supporting enterprise sales, technical presales, complex deal shaping, and strategic client engagements.
Established relationships with enterprise technology providers and knowledge of partner-led business models.
Experience implementing delivery standards, reusable methodologies, and accelerators across consulting engagements.
Demonstrated ability to build trusted-advisor relationships with clients.
Experience supporting sales and business development.
Ability to travel periodically based on business and client needs.

Responsibilities

Partner with the Practice Leader to execute the Data Services growth strategy and achieve revenue, profitability, and market expansion objectives.
Originate, shape, and close strategic Data Services opportunities through client relationships and technical credibility.
Identify account expansion, cross-selling, follow-on project, and recurring revenue opportunities.
Develop and execute growth plans for Advisory, Technology, and Data Storage Services.
Align technical capabilities with client needs in Advancement, Education, Federal, and Nonprofit domains.
Lead technical solutioning for complex opportunities, including architecture, scope, delivery strategy, estimation, staffing assumptions, and risk assessments.
Develop commercially viable service offerings that balance client value, competitive positioning, revenue potential, and delivery margins.
Support revenue forecasting, pipeline qualification, resource investment, and service-line profitability assessments.
Serve as an executive technical sponsor for strategic clients.
Provide executive oversight for Advisory Services, Technology Services, and Data Storage Services.
Establish service definitions, capability roadmaps, methodologies, delivery approaches, and technical quality expectations.
Develop packaged offerings and repeatable accelerators that improve consistency, reduce costs, and shorten implementation timelines.
Identify emerging client demands and recommend whether to build, acquire, or partner to expand capabilities.
Establish solution architecture principles and reusable patterns across cloud, data platforms, integration technologies, and enterprise applications.
Introduce AI-driven development, automated validation, reusable frameworks, and other delivery-efficiency innovations.
Coordinate with Analytics Services leadership on integrated offerings spanning data readiness, governance, integration, storage, reporting, and AI.
Evaluate existing services and recommend investments, improvements, or retirement of underperforming offerings.
Build and maintain executive and technical relationships with strategic technology providers, including Boomi, MuleSoft, Informatica, Databricks, Snowflake, and Microsoft.
Develop joint go-to-market strategies, account plans, partner-specific solutions, demonstrations, reference architectures, and accelerators.
Create co-selling, joint marketing, industry event, client workshop, and partner-sponsored opportunities.
Maintain technical credibility through certifications, specialization programs, partner advisory participation, and demonstrated client success.
Establish technical oversight and governance for complex client engagements across assigned pillars.
Define architecture review practices, technical design standards, development methodologies, testing expectations, and quality assurance processes.
Ensure proposed solutions align with client requirements, contractual scope, available skills, timelines, and financial assumptions.
Provide escalation leadership for major technical risks, architectural decisions, and challenging client delivery situations.
Work with Technical Delivery Management to support transitions from presales through execution and provide technical resource, staffing, risk, and subject-matter expertise.
Identify recurring delivery problems and implement systematic improvements through standards, coaching, tooling, and accelerators.
Promote reuse of proven architectures and project assets while allowing appropriate flexibility for client-specific requirements.
Monitor delivery health, client feedback, and technical quality to identify service improvements.
Lead, coach, and develop assigned Pillar Leaders and technical capability owners.
Build succession plans and development opportunities for emerging technical leaders.
Develop skills matrices, competency expectations, career paths, certification plans, and technical training priorities.
Identify capability gaps and recommend hiring, training, subcontracting, or partnership actions.
Establish communities of practice and knowledge-sharing across technical teams.
Promote accountability, innovation, technical excellence, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
Support recruiting and evaluation of senior architects, technical leads, and other strategically important talent.
Translate industry-specific requirements into marketable technical solutions and delivery approaches with Domain Solution Leaders.
Provide technical guidance for Advancement, Education, Federal, and Nonprofit opportunities.
Coordinate with Analytics Services leaders on reporting, dashboards, AI/ML, advanced analytics, and unified data architecture opportunities.
Support strategic account planning and identify additional Data Services opportunities within existing engagements.
Establish regular service-pillar reviews covering growth, capability maturity, technical risks, resource needs, and strategic investments.
Develop annual and quarterly plans for assigned pillars, including offering priorities, technical roadmap milestones, and talent development.
Monitor service profitability, estimating accuracy, delivery efficiency, solution quality, and portfolio performance with the Practice Leader and Technical Delivery Management.
Recommend investments in people, partnerships, accelerators, certifications, and new service capabilities.
Report pillar performance, strategic priorities, and matters requiring executive decisions to the Practice Leader.
Travel periodically based on business and client needs.