Data SME Associate Director

Data SME

Job Description:

Customer-centric, intellectually curious, energetic person that can lead the design of data/analytics solutions for customers through the sales cycle and seamlessly transition to downstream delivery teams

·        Help customers and internal client partners better understand our services and value prop

·        In collaboration with Sales, develop project opportunities with new and existing customers

·        Lead technical solutioning and estimation for data/analytics proposals

·        Identify talent within the business unit and leverage same for proposals and POCs

·        Stay up-to-date and evangelize new trends in data/analytics with customers

·        Advance individual and Virtusa brand through meaningful publications such as blogs and articles

Skills

·        Understanding of the breadth of data and analytics solutions – data models, warehouses, MDM, data governance/quality, data integration, BI, and analytics

·        Understanding of cloud-based big data and warehouse solutions

·        Exposure to the use of statistical analysis and Machine Learning techniques towards building intelligent and/or predictive analytics solutions

·        Exposure to emerging/innovative Visualization paradigms

·        Ability to solution both as a solo contributor and a community leader

·        Customer-facing consulting and internal-facing collaboration and mentoring skills

·        Excellent communication, presentation, interpersonal, and organizational skills

·        Ability to collaborate effectively with both sales and technical teams as part of pre-sales

·        (optional) Understanding of Telco, Media, Information Services domain

Experience

·        10+ years overall experience with last 8+ years building data and analytics solutions for complex enterprises

·        5+ years of pre-sales/consulting experience in data engineering

·        Must have executed 2-3 large data engagements from inception to production as an architect

·        Experience in building/migrating to cloud-based data solutions

·        In-depth experience in building ETL solutions, data lakes, data warehouses and analytical platforms

·        Experience in non-functional/functional designs for analytics platforms

·        Working experience with Ai/ML and Data Science

·        Consulting experience with a large multi-national is a plus