[Hiring] Head of Data Practitioner @Crosslake Technologies

Role Description

Crosslake is looking for a Head of Data to lead data engagements. In this role, you will work with private equity investors and portfolio company leadership teams to turn data opportunities into measurable business outcomes.

• Own senior client relationships on complex data engagements, building credibility with CDOs, CTOs, and other executive stakeholders while leading the work from strategic diagnosis through to practical delivery.
• Shape the problem, develop the data strategy, lead complex transformations, manage senior stakeholders, drive the storyline, and own delivery.
• Move confidently between business, technology, and data conversations, connecting strategic ambition to the required data capabilities, operating-model changes, investment choices, and delivery roadmap.

Role Responsibilities

• Own client relationships on data engagements, establishing trusted partnerships with senior business and technology leaders and acting as a credible advisor to CDOs, CTOs, and executive teams.
• Lead the development of data strategies that align business priorities, value-creation opportunities, target data capabilities, technology choices, operating model, and delivery roadmap.
• Lead complex data transformations from diagnosis through to implementation planning, including data platform modernization, data governance, data quality, data product, and analytics initiatives.
• Bring structure to ambiguous data challenges, defining key questions, building the workplan, managing workstreams, and keeping the team focused on the issues that matter most to the client.
• Develop compelling executive-level narratives that synthesize analysis, client input, and specialist perspectives into practical recommendations and clear decisions.
• Translate effectively between commercial and technical audiences, ensuring recommendations reflect business priorities, data realities, architecture implications, delivery feasibility, and execution risk.
• Link data initiatives to value creation economics, including opportunity sizing, business cases, investment requirements, benefits, trade-offs, and dependencies.
• Challenge assumptions, pressure-test recommendations, and identify where deeper expertise is needed across data engineering, architecture, governance, analytics, AI, or transformation.
• Drive engagements beyond analysis towards prioritized actions, accountable delivery plans, and a pragmatic path from recommendation to execution.

Qualifications

• Experience operating at a level comparable to a high-performing consulting Director, Associate Director, or Senior Consultant, with a track record of leading complex data engagements and senior client relationships.
• A strong consulting toolkit, ideally developed in a leading strategy, digital, data, or transformation consultancy, or through comparable experience in high-stakes advisory or transformation environments.
• Deep expertise in data strategy and data transformation, with practical experience across areas such as modern data platforms, data architecture, governance, quality, data products, analytics, or AI enablement.
• Proven ability to take ambiguous business and data problems, impose structure, develop hypotheses, lead rigorous analysis, manage teams, and translate findings into a clear executive storyline.
• Credibility with senior executives and functional leaders, including CDOs, CTOs, CIOs, CEOs, and leaders across data, technology, product, and transformation.
• Strong commercial and financial acumen, including the ability to size opportunities, build business cases, quantify benefits, understand investment needs, and evaluate strategic trade-offs.
• Experience leading complex data programs or transformations, with sufficient technical depth to challenge decisions on data architecture, platforms, governance, operating models, and delivery approaches.
• A hands-on leadership style: senior enough to build confidence with executives, while close enough to the work to guide analysis, challenge team thinking, and personally shape the strategy and storyline.
• A practical, action-oriented mindset aligned with Crosslake’s values of service, curiosity, credibility, commitment, and creativity.