Data Practice Director

About the role

The Data Practice Director will lead a fast‑growing cloud data consulting practice in Mexico. This senior leadership position bridges strategy, delivery, and people management, ensuring high‑quality execution across multiple client engagements.

Key responsibilities

• Oversee end‑to‑end delivery of data engineering and analytics projects, ensuring quality, timeliness, budget adherence, and client satisfaction.
• Drive operational excellence through resource planning, utilization tracking, margin management, and delivery health monitoring.
• Establish and enforce scalable delivery standards, frameworks, and best practices.
• Act as escalation point for complex delivery challenges, collaborating with delivery leads to resolve technical, scope, or client issues.
• Translate strategic priorities into execution plans, quarterly objectives, and measurable OKRs.
• Lead, mentor, and develop a distributed team of data engineers, architects, and analytics professionals.
• Oversee hiring, onboarding, performance management, and succession planning.
• Build and maintain strong client relationships, serving as a trusted advisor to senior stakeholders.
• Support business development activities, including solutioning, proposals, and account expansion.
• Contribute to practice growth, thought leadership, and reusable asset development.

Required profile

• 12+ years of consulting or professional services experience focused on data engineering, analytics, or data platforms.
• Proven ability to manage and scale teams of 20+ data professionals in a client delivery environment.
• Track record of delivering complex data solutions on AWS, including data lakes, lakehouse architectures, streaming, and analytics workloads.
• Experience managing multiple concurrent client engagements with responsibility for delivery performance and financial outcomes.

Required skills

• AWS
• Data lakes
• Lakehouse architectures
• Streaming data processing
• Analytics workloads
• Data architecture
• Data engineering