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Data Engineering DirectorWest Monroe • Chicago, IL, United States
Data Engineering Director

Data Engineering Director

West Monroe • Chicago, IL, United States
17 days ago
Job type
  • Full-time
Job description

Are you ready to make an impact?

West Monroe has an opportunity for a strategic Data Engineering Director to join our Technology practice. This leader will structure, lead, support, drive, and grow West Monroe's Technology Data Engineering practice and associated offerings in collaboration with other leaders across the company. This role will focus on delivering transformational modern data platforms, 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.

Directors within West Monroe have three main responsibilities :

Business Development :

  • Drive opportunity origination at existing clients, qualify leads and collaborate on pursuits for new work and build deep relationships
  • Hunt new strategic clients - using relationships and other proven business development skills
  • Collaborate with industry and multidisciplinary teams to identify sales opportunities
  • Initiate and lead business development meetings with prospective clients
  • Understand client needs and requirements and help turn those goals into concrete engagements and detailed proposals that highlight quantifiable value creation
  • Create work plans, pricing estimates, and risk assessments for prospects
  • Attend networking events and actively build and leverage a professional network and affiliate network in the local community

Client Delivery :

  • 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
  • Practice Development :

  • Collaborate with national and local leadership within Data Engineering & Analytics practice and across West Monroe industry and functional practices, to develop and deliver multi-disciplinary, data-driven offerings
  • Develop knowledge of emerging modern data platforms, Databricks, Snowflake, cloud (GCP, AWS, and / or Azure), data strategy, data governance, 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
  • Qualifications :

  • 10+ years participating in team-based, client-facing business and technology consulting services
  • 8+ years of experience leading teams of data professionals doing hand-on design, build, configure, implement work
  • Requisite depth in one or more key data platform technologies - Databricks, GCP, and / or Snowflake
  • Entrepreneurial spirit and willingness to innovate on new and emerging solutions
  • Demonstrated success within one or more of West Monroe's core industries including Healthcare (payer / provider, life sciences), Utilities, Insurance, Banking, and / or Private Equity
  • A commitment to inclusion and diversity, and openness to new ideas and perspectives
  • Ability to Travel, as required based on client and practice demands (expected 30%)
  • Based on pay transparency guidelines, a reasonable expectation for the salary range for this role is listed below. Information on our competitive total rewards package, including our bonus structure and benefits is here. Individual salaries are determined by evaluating a variety of factors including geography, experience, skills, education, and internal equity. Employees in proximity of our Seattle, Washington DC, Los Angeles, New York, and San Francisco offices will have a geographic premium applied to this salary scale.

    Employees (and their families) are covered by medical, dental, vision, and basic life insurance. Employees are able to enroll in our company's 401k plan, purchase shares from our employee stock ownership program and be eligible to receive annual bonuses. Employees will also receive unlimited flexible time off and ten paid holidays throughout the calendar year. Eligibility for ten weeks of paid parental leave will also be available upon hire date.

    National

    $200,000-$250,000 USD

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    At West Monroe, we work with you.

    We're a global business and technology consulting firm passionate about creating measurable value for our clients, delivering real-world solutions.

    The combination of business and technology is not new, but how we bring them together is unique. We're fluent in both. We know that technology alone is not the answer, but how we apply it is. We rely on data to constantly adapt and solve new challenges. Actions that work today with outcomes that generate value for years to come.

    At West Monroe, we zero in on the heart of the opportunity, getting to results faster and preparing people for what's next.

    You'll feel the difference in how we work. We show up personally. We're right there in the room with you, co-creating through the challenges. With West Monroe, collaboration isn't a lofty promise, but a daily action. We work together with you to turn vision into clear action with lasting impact.

    West Monroe is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer

    We believe in treating each employee and applicant for employment fairly and with dignity. We base our employment decisions on merit, experience, and potential, without regard to race, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, age, religion, disability, veteran status, or any other characteristic prohibited by federal, state or local law. To learn more about diversity, equity and inclusion at West Monroe, visit www.westmonroe.com / inclusion. If you require a reasonable accommodation to participate in our recruiting process, please inquire by sending an email to recruiting@westmonroe.com.

    Please review our current policy regarding use of generative artificial intelligence during the application process.

    If you are based in California, we encourage you to read West Monroe's Notice at Collection for California residents, provided pursuant to the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) and linked here.

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