Data Technical Principal - North America

Equal Experts

100d•$220,000 - $300,000

About The Position

The Data Technical Principal role is a vital part of our business, serving as one of our most senior consultants within our North American leadership team. It requires someone who is not only an expert in technology, but who also can build relationships with clients, become a trusted advisor, and solve business problems. In summary there are 4 core aspects of the role: Technical Delivery & Leadership: Expert in architecting and building large-scale custom data & AI solutions. The ideal candidate has a background in Data Science & Data Engineering and has been working on GenAI solutions to solve real-world business problems. This role will partner directly with our top clients to architect & deliver work, lead technical teams, and mentor other team members. Client Engagement: Experienced in presales, shaping engagements, and building strong relationships with technical and non-technical stakeholders. Develop pitches and solutions for prospective customers. Experienced in shaping engagements, being the first on the ground dealing with early stage ambiguity, and then as engagements growth being instrumental in forming teams, and building relationships with the customer. Thought Leadership: Publishes thought leadership, speaks at industry events, and actively networks within the technical community. Determining a point of view with regards to modern technologies, tooling and implementation approaches - particularly around the future of AI (Agents, Computer Visioning, etc.) Collaboration & Problem-Solving: An experienced consultant, having led multiple client facing engagements, acting as a trusted technical advisor to the customer. Skilled in leading teams, with a flexible attitude in tackling a range of business problems, and breaking down complex problems into solutions. Highly collaborative with other team members and works in a visible manner. About Equal Experts Equal Experts is a unique software development consultancy that specializes in providing services which help customers to address complex technical challenges to create world class digital solutions. We are typically engaged by customers to build new digital solutions, to modernize existing solutions and to help our customers build software using modern techniques. Our focus is not only to build the right solution but also to build it in the right way. We have a distinct business model that comprises employees and associates (independent contractors) of the highest caliber, and experience levels. For example, we do not engage graduates or mid-level engineers or consultants, as our core proposition is to bring deep knowledge, experience, and skills to our customers. Our business is employee-owned, with our co-founders active and leading the business. Our founders and executive greatly believe in continuing to run the company in a way that it can last for more than 50 years, and believe that retaining it as a private business will safeguard our values. We are driven by our desire to create demonstrable value for our customers that will last well beyond our engagements. Through this lens we make decisions that do the right thing for our customers and the people that work for us. We carefully select who we work for and what we do, to ensure we can be successful for our customers, but also so that our people are working in fulfilling and psychologically safe environments. North America Equal Experts originated in the UK in 2007, which is still the largest business unit with over 2000 active consultants. Our annual global revenue is over $350M. Equal Experts North America has been running in full operational mode since 2019 and consists of approximately 70 billable consultants, 46 of which are in North America, with the remainder working from one of our other business units, mostly the UK. Our local annual revenue for 2024 - 2025 was $35M. Given our history and size, we are still very much in an early growth stage and as such this role will play a crucial part in our future growth and strategy. Our goal for 2025-26 is to gain 2-3 anchor clients. By ‘anchor client’ we refer to a client with which we can grow and deepen our relationship with over several years. We know an anchor client needs to have certain attributes including multibillion dollar revenues, investing in technology modernization or advancement, needs technical capability (not just capacity) and embraces the value of modern technologies and working practices.

Requirements

10+ years implementing and designing data solutions in a professional context
Expert in architecting and implementing enterprise-grade data & AI solutions for a variety of clients
Experience designing RAG architectures and building and deploying GenAI solutions through production
Deep expertise in Data Science, Machine Learning, and Artificial Intelligence.
Proficiency in cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) and modern data/ML Tooling (Databricks, Snowflake, etc)
Background in Data Engineering (ETL pipelines, data lakes/warehouses, etc.)
Must be able to travel frequently throughout North America.

Nice To Haves

prior hands-on experience building algorithms, models, and/or developing in Python & R

Responsibilities

Expert in architecting and building large-scale custom data & AI solutions
Partner directly with our top clients to architect & deliver work, lead technical teams, and mentor other team members
Experienced in presales, shaping engagements, and building strong relationships with technical and non-technical stakeholders
Develop pitches and solutions for prospective customers
Instrumental in forming teams, and building relationships with the customer
Publishes thought leadership, speaks at industry events, and actively networks within the technical community
Acting as a trusted technical advisor to the customer
Skilled in leading teams, with a flexible attitude in tackling a range of business problems, and breaking down complex problems into solutions
Highly collaborative with other team members and works in a visible manner