Practice Director, AI and Analytics

Practice Director, AI and Analytics

Full Time

Job Code : T-80987

Santa Clara, CA, USA

1 position

Required Experience

8 - 12 Years

Skills

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Data platforms, machine learning (ML) and AI are major focus areas for our AI and Analytics Practice, and we’re

looking for a Practice Director to lead the way. Do you have both technical and business skills? This is a chance to

set strategy, define product and service offerings, work with our sales team to win deals, and work with our

engineers to build reusable assets and custom solutions.

Responsibilities include :

Leading the Practice strategy by defining the IP and custom service offerings, target markets, and

lead generation approach

Taking ownership for Practice sales targets (supporting the efforts of the salespeople who are

primary owners of the quota)

Ensuring that we pitch our offerings to all applicable existing customers and prospects by

educating the sales team and helping them identify the best targets within their territories

Providing sales support in the form of collateral and RFP responses and pitching our expertise at

sales meetings and conferences

Working with the engineering team to build IP that can be used across solutions for multiple

clients

Ensuring the success of analytics projects by helping our engineering team on occasion; this

could be by kick starting new projects or troubleshooting them if something isn’t going well

Requirements :

Bachelors degree in Computer Science, or demonstration of equivalent conceptual knowledge

through self-study and prior experience

2+ years of experience in a business development, practice leadership, or pre-sales focused on

analytics solutions

5+ years designing and developing data platforms at significant scale, including

o Large scale distributed computing and big data technologies, such as Spark

o Stream processing technologies, such as Spark Streaming, Storm, Kinesis

o Massively-parallel cloud datawarehouse engines and distributed query engines, such as

Redshift, Synapse, BigQuery, Snowflake, and Presto

o NoSQL data stores such as MongoDB, Cassandra

o Data modeling of relational and dimensional databases

o Performance measurement and tuning

o Programming languages including Python, Scala, Java

Some understanding of modern AI techniques, sufficient to know what’s possible and practical

and have conversations with clients on how to use it to drive business impact

Understanding of cloud and distributed systems principles, including load balancing, networks,

scaling, and in-memory vs disk operations

Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, and GCP; container and orchestration

technologies

Communication skills : the bar is much higher than usual engineering roles - both written and oral.

Travel : required frequently to meet clients; perhaps 2-3 trips per month for 1-2 days each.

Work location : the person should work from the Santa Clara office couple days a week when not traveling.

About Company

With 21+ years of experience building innovative digital products and solutions, Tavant provides impactful results to its customers.

It has been the frontrunner in driving digital innovation and tech-enabled transformation across a wide range of industries such as Fintech, Manufacturing, Agtech, Media & Entertainment, and Retail in North America, Europe, and Asia-Pacific.

IDC MarketScape has recognized Tavant as a leader in the global warranty and service contract management applications market.