Data Practice Director @Caylent
Data Analysis
Salary unspecified
Job Type full-time
Posted 3wks ago

[Hiring] Data Practice Director @Caylent

3wks ago - Caylent is hiring a remote Data Practice Director. πŸ’Έ Salary: unspecified πŸ“Location: Latin America (LATAM), USA, Canada, United Arab Emirates

Role Description

The Data Practice Director is a senior leadership role within Caylent's Cloud Data Engineering (CDE) practice, reporting directly to the Data Practice Leader. This person is responsible for operationalizing the practice strategy, leading a team of data professionals, and owning delivery excellence across a portfolio of client engagements. They are the connective tissue between strategic direction and day-to-day execution, ensuring the practice delivers consistent, high-quality outcomes while scaling to meet growth targets.

Your Assignment

  • Practice Operations and Delivery
    • Own end-to-end delivery oversight for a portfolio of data engineering and analytics engagements, ensuring on-time, on-budget, and high-quality outcomes.
    • Drive operational rigor across the practice including utilization management, staffing coordination, margin tracking, and engagement health reviews.
    • Develop and enforce delivery standards, reusable frameworks, and best practices that enable consistent, scalable execution across the team.
    • Serve as an escalation point for active engagements, helping resolve technical blockers, scope issues, and client concerns in partnership with delivery leads.
    • Partner with the Practice Leader to translate the strategic roadmap into executable quarterly priorities and team-level OKRs.
  • Team Leadership and Development
    • Directly lead and develop a team of data engineers, architects, and analytics professionals across the practice.
    • Set clear performance expectations, conduct regular reviews, and provide ongoing coaching to build a high-performing, engaged team.
    • Partner with recruiting and workforce planning to identify talent gaps, support hiring decisions, and onboard new team members effectively.
    • Foster a culture of ownership, continuous learning, and technical excellence across a globally distributed team.
    • Identify and develop emerging leaders within the practice, creating growth pathways aligned to practice needs.
  • Client Engagement
    • Build trusted advisor relationships with key client stakeholders, acting as a senior point of contact for delivery and strategic guidance.
    • Partner with the sales and GTM teams to support business development activities including scoping, proposal development, and technical solutioning for new and existing accounts.
    • Identify and pursue expansion opportunities within active client engagements, surfacing new use cases and service offerings that align with client needs.
    • Represent Caylent with credibility and professionalism in client-facing conversations at the director and VP level.
  • Practice Growth and Enablement
    • Collaborate with the Practice Leader on go-to-market positioning, service offering development, and internal capability building.
    • Contribute to thought leadership content including whitepapers, webinars, and conference presentations that elevate the practice's external profile.
    • Stay current on trends in the modern data ecosystem and work with the team to incorporate relevant innovations into our delivery approach.
    • Support the development of practice IP including accelerators, reference architectures, and reusable solution components.

Qualifications

  • 12+ years of experience in professional services or consulting, with a strong focus on data engineering, analytics, or data platform delivery.
  • Demonstrated success managing and growing a team of 20 or more data professionals in a services or consulting environment.
  • Proven track record of delivering complex data projects on AWS, including data lake, lakehouse, streaming, and analytics workloads.
  • Experience managing a portfolio of concurrent client engagements, balancing delivery quality with financial performance.
  • Hands-on background in data architecture or engineering, with the ability to engage credibly with technical teams and client stakeholders alike.
  • Strong people management skills with demonstrated ability to develop talent, drive performance, and build team culture across geographies.
  • Ability to operate effectively at multiple levels, from strategic planning conversations with the Practice Leader to hands-on engagement support with delivery teams.
  • Comfortable navigating ambiguity and complexity in a fast-paced, high-growth consulting environment.
  • Experience influencing senior client stakeholders (director, VP and C-level) in delivery and advisory contexts.
  • Deep familiarity with the AWS data ecosystem including services such as Redshift, Glue, EMR, Kinesis, Lake Formation, and Athena.
  • Working knowledge of adjacent platforms including Databricks and Snowflake, and their integration with AWS-native architectures.
  • Broad understanding of data engineering fundamentals: ingestion patterns, transformation frameworks (e.g., Spark, dbt), data modeling, governance, and quality management.
  • Familiarity with MLOps and data science workflows sufficient to support and position those capabilities in client conversations.
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Information Systems, or a related field.
  • Master's degree or MBA is a plus.
  • AWS Certified Data Analytics, AWS Certified Solutions Architect, or equivalent certifications are a plus.

Benefits

  • 100% remote work
  • Generous holidays and flexible PTO
  • Competitive phantom equity
  • Paid for exams and certifications
  • Peer bonus awards
  • State of the art laptop and tools
  • Equipment & Office Stipend
  • Individual professional development plan
  • Annual stipend for Learning and Development
  • Work with an amazing worldwide team and in an incredible corporate culture
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