Managing Director, Data Engineering

West Monroe•New York, NY

1d•$280,000 - $378,000•Hybrid

About The Position

West Monroe has an exciting new opportunity for a strategic Data Engineering Managing Director/Partner to join our growing Technology & Experience practice within our Data & Analytics discipline. This leader will structure, lead, support, drive, and grow West Monroe’s Data & Analytics discipline and associated offerings in collaboration with other leaders across the company. This role will focus on delivering transformational modern data platform, data strategy, and cloud solutions as well as providing clients with thought-leadership on applying new technologies to innovate their business. This leader will be responsible for key client account ownership, scoping, selling, and acting as the engagement lead for large scale data projects. This role blends market-facing leadership, client delivery excellence, and firm stewardship, with accountability for building and scaling differentiated data, analytics, AI, and cloud-enabled offerings.

Requirements

13+ years participating in team-based, client-facing business and technology consulting services
10+ years of experience leading teams of data professionals doing hand-on design, build, configure, implement work
10+ years of technical experience in data platform development related work
5+ years of experience managing data engineering teams
Experience building and scaling a data engineering consulting group or practice
Strong business development and an active professional network of contacts in the local market
Entrepreneurial spirit and willingness to innovate on new and emerging solutions
Experience farming new business from existing clients and managing client relationships
Strong project management methodology background, including schedule, scope, issue and risk management experience, change management, strategic planning and analysis
Proven leader with extensive ability to build solid and collaborative relationships with team members, foster a productive team environment, and coach staff with timely meaningful written and verbal feedback
Ability to Travel, as required based on client and practice demands (expected to be 40-50%)

Responsibilities

Support and lead teams serving clients across industries while demonstrating executive presence with high level client counterparts.
Manage and influence multi-disciplinary teams to translate client business objectives into data and analytics solutions; collaborate with data engineering, industry, and product teams to deliver impactful results for our clients.
Provide quality assurance and conduct frequent touch bases with client executives to ensure value is realized and understood from our engagements.
Understand and support the underlying business processes and technologies being used within an organization to be able to make recommendations on how to achieve long-term scalability, reduce operational cost, or better support business processes.
Ensure proper management of project economics including: project budgets, invoicing, and the collection process.
Collaborate with national and local leadership within Data Engineering & Analytics practice and across West Monroe (WM) industry and functional practices, to develop and deliver multi-disciplinary, data-driven offerings.
Develop knowledge of emerging modern data platforms, Databricks, Snowflake, cloud (AWS, Azure, and/or GCP), data strategy (monetization, governance, etc.), and data visualization (Tableau, PowerBI, Looker, etc.).
Lead, mentor and grow data engineering consultants and actively participate in the career advisory and performance management process.
Actively participate in recruiting and retaining top quality data engineers.
Collaborate in growth around strategy, approach, offerings, staffing, skill development, methodology, and new account development.
Collaborate with local office leadership to ensure alignment with the office culture, define the strategic direction of the Technology team, and actively lead entrepreneurial activities to expand offerings and the skills of the team.
Coach and manage other consultants and actively participate in the performance management process.
Identify emerging trends in data, analytics, AI, and digital transformation.
Understand client needs to translate challenges and objectives into proposals.
Hunt new strategic clients – using relationships and other proven business development skills.
Initiate and lead business development meetings with prospective and existing clients aligned to one or more core West Monroe industries.
Create work plans, pricing estimates, and risk assessments for prospects.