[Hiring] Data Services Principal Leader @Attain Partners

Role Description

The Data Services Principal Leader is a senior executive leadership position responsible for growing, scaling, and maturing Attain Partners' Data Services capabilities across Advisory Services, Technology Services, and Data Storage Services. This leader owns the technical strategy, development of market-facing offerings, capability maturity, solution architecture, service quality, and leadership development across their assigned service pillars. The position serves as a critical link between business growth, client needs, technology partnerships, and successful solution delivery.

Key Objectives

• Drive Revenue Growth: Support the growth of Data Services revenue through new service offerings, strategic pursuits, client expansion, and recurring services within assigned pillars.
• Scale Service Capabilities: Establish and expand repeatable, high-quality capabilities across Data Advisory, Data Governance, Integrations, Data Migration, Master Data Management, and Data Storage.
• Develop Market-Facing Offerings: Transform technical expertise into defined service offerings, methodologies, accelerators, and delivery models that can be consistently sold and delivered.
• Expand Technology Partnerships: Strengthen existing strategic partnerships and develop new technology alliances that generate qualified opportunities, joint solutions, and increased market visibility.
• Strengthen Solutioning and Presales: Build a consistent, high-performing solutioning organization capable of supporting increasingly complex pursuits, proposals, estimates, and enterprise architectures.
• Create Recurring Revenue Opportunities: Develop ongoing advisory, managed data services, application support, and optimization offerings that extend client relationships beyond initial implementations.
• Improve Delivery Excellence: Establish technical standards, quality controls, reusable assets, and delivery methodologies that improve predictability, client satisfaction, and profitability.
• Develop Technical Leadership: Build a strong leadership bench of pillar leaders, solution architects, technical SMEs, and emerging capability owners.
• Enable Cross-Pillar Solutions: Connect Advisory, Technology, Data Storage, and Analytics capabilities into integrated client solutions while maintaining clear ownership and accountability.
• Advance AI-Enabled Services: Identify opportunities to incorporate AI, automation, and emerging technology into Data Services offerings and internal delivery accelerators.

Core Responsibilities

• Service Line Growth & Commercial Leadership: Build and scale technically differentiated, commercially successful service capabilities.
• Service Portfolio & Capability Development: Own the technical HOW and build offerings that Attain can repeatedly sell and deliver.
• Strategic Technology Partnerships & Ecosystem Development: Turn technology partnerships into differentiated capabilities and sustainable business opportunities.
• Solution Architecture & Delivery Excellence: Ensure Attain sells solutions that can be delivered successfully, predictably, and profitably.
• Technical Leadership & Talent Development: Build the people, expertise, and leadership structure required to scale.
• Cross-Pillar & Domain Collaboration: Connect technical capabilities to industry needs and client outcomes.
• Operational Management & Performance: Establish scalable leadership, governance, and operating rhythms.

Qualifications

• 15+ years of experience in enterprise data services, technology consulting, systems integration, cloud data platforms, or data transformation.
• Proven experience leading technical consulting teams, service lines, or multi-capability practices.
• Demonstrated success developing, scaling, and commercializing data and technology services.
• Strong background in enterprise data architecture, integration, migration, governance, MDM, and modern data platforms.
• Experience supporting enterprise sales, technical presales, complex deal shaping, and strategic client engagements.
• Established relationships with enterprise technology providers and knowledge of partner-led business models.
• Experience implementing delivery standards, reusable methodologies, and accelerators across consulting engagements.

Leadership Style

• Builder Mindset: Creates new capabilities, develops offerings, and improves existing services rather than simply managing current operations.
• Commercially Oriented: Understands how technical capabilities generate revenue, expand accounts, and improve profitability.
• Hands-On Technical Leader: Provides credible architectural guidance and can directly support complex technical pursuits and escalations.
• Strategic and Execution-Focused: Translates long-term service-line strategy into measurable priorities, investments, and results.
• Collaborative Leader: Works effectively across practice, pillar, domain, and delivery management structures.
• Talent Developer: Builds strong technical leaders, encourages professional growth, and establishes accountability.
• Client-Focused: Prioritizes measurable business outcomes, client confidence, and sustainable long-term relationships.

KPIs & Success Metrics

• Revenue growth within assigned service pillars; influenced pipeline; pursuit win rate; existing-account expansion; recurring services revenue.
• New offerings launched; adoption of standardized methodologies; accelerator reuse; capability maturity and utilization.
• Partner-generated pipeline; joint solutions developed; certifications and competencies; strategic partnership engagement.
• Solution quality; technical escalation trends; estimation accuracy; project margin performance; client satisfaction.
• Leadership bench strength; skill and certification growth; retention of key technical resources; succession readiness.

Additional Requirements

• Demonstrated ability to build trusted advisor relationships with clients.
• Experience supporting sales and business development.
• Position requires flexibility to travel periodically based on business and client needs.

Benefits

• Competitive health, dental, and vision coverage, HSA and FSA accounts, life and disability insurance, fertility and family planning benefits, and employee assistance and discount programs.
• 11 paid federal holidays and flexible unlimited time off (UTO).
• Generous 401(k) matching with immediate vesting.
• Flexible career paths – our career tracks provide advancement, mobility, and flexibility as you continue to grow with us.
• A healthy environment where we value unique experiences, and care about everything that makes you, you.

Salary Range

$200,000 — $250,000 USD

Company Description

Attain Partners is an innovative consulting firm dedicated to disrupting the status quo to change the world and improve the lives of those we touch. People are at the center of all we do, and that’s why we empower career growth, provide industry-leading benefits packages, encourage a flexible work environment, and foster a culture of inclusion to support the needs of our team.