Data Consultant

Apollo Solutions; United Kingdom; Remote; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

An innovative boutique consultancy is seeking a visionary Data Consultant to join their remote-first team. This role offers the opportunity to work on greenfield Data and Cloud projects, driving transformative results for clients. Ideal candidates will possess a growth mindset, exceptional communication skills, and a strong commercial acumen. With a focus on continuous improvement and excellence, you will lead pre-sales activities, engage with stakeholders, and help shape data strategies for enterprise customers. Join a collective of knowledgeable consultants and accelerate your career while making a meaningful impact in the industry.

Qualifications

• 3+ years leading engineering teams in a customer-facing role.
• Extensive experience with Azure Data Platform solutions.

Responsibilities

• Lead pre-sales engagements to define data strategy and architecture.
• Collaborate with sales teams to secure new projects and proposals.

Skills

Stakeholder Engagement

Commercial Acumen

Cloud-Native Engineering

Data Mining

Strategic Thinking

Exceptional Communication

Problem Solving

Growth Mindset

Tools

Azure

AWS

SQL

Python

Go

R

dbt

Apache Airflow

Apache Kafka

Dagster

Job description

This range is provided by Apollo Solutions. Your actual pay will be based on your skills and experience — talk with your recruiter to learn more.

Base pay range

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Principle Data Consultant | Expert Thinking | Azure / AWS | Permanent | Boutique Consultancy | remote-first | strong culture / greenfield Data Projects | Ex-AWS

For Expert Thinking - a thought leader within Cloud and Data and remote-first boutique consultancy - we’re seeking exceptional individuals who embody excellence and demonstrate an unwavering commitment to delivering transformative results. The successful candidate will be a visionary Data Consultant who thrives in a high-performance environment, possesses an entrepreneurial spirit and has strong commercial acumen to drive pre-sales activities and stakeholder engagement.

The company - Expert Thinking

Expert Thinking is the go-to partner for greenfield Data and Cloud projects in the industry, they help clients to improve cloud & Data maturity, accelerate cloud & Data adoption and drive costs savings. Expert Thinking houses an impressive collective of knowledgeable consultants with backgrounds varying from AWS and UBS to Contino and Pax8.

It's the perfect place to accelerate your growth, enhance your leadership, and sharpen your technical acumen—all while making a meaningful impact on your clients.

Values and Mindset

• Demonstrates a relentless pursuit of excellence and continuous improvement
• Takes full ownership of outcomes and consistently exceeds expectations
• Exhibits thought leadership and drives innovation in the data platform space
• Shows resilience and determination in overcoming complex challenges

Professional Attributes

• Possesses a growth mindset and actively seeks opportunities to expand capabilities
• Builds and nurtures strong relationships with clients and team members
• Approaches problems with creativity and strategic thinking
• Maintains composure under pressure while delivering exceptional results
• Exceptional communication and stakeholder management skills, able to engage with technical and non-technical audiences

Leadership & Commercial Qualities

• Acts as a mentor and role model, elevating the performance of those around them
• Drives strategic initiatives with clear vision and purpose
• Demonstrates commercial acumen, identifying opportunities to deliver business value through data solutions
• Leads pre-sales engagements, working with customers to define their data strategy, architecture, and implementation roadmap
• Collaborates with sales and business development teams to create compelling proposals and secure new projects
• Champions organizational goals and inspires others to achieve excellence

Experience & Technical Skills

• 3+ years of experience leading high-performing engineering teams in a customer-facing and hands-on role
• Extensive experience building performant, scalable, and secure Azure Data Platform solutions for enterprise customers
• Proven experience in technical pre-sales, guiding customers through defining and implementing solutions that meet their requirements
• Strong stakeholder engagement experience, able to translate complex technical concepts into business value
• Broad knowledge of modern data platform solutions across multiple public cloud offerings
• Expertise in cloud-native engineering approaches and methodologies
• Deep technical expertise with data models, data mining, and segmentation techniques
• Proficiency in ETL, SQL and e.g. Python, Go or R for data manipulation and analysis, with the ability to build, maintain, and deploy sequences of automated processes

Bonus Experience (Nice to Have)

• Familiarity with dbt, Fivetran, Apache Airflow, Data Mesh, Data Vault 2.0, Fabric, and Apache Spark
• Experience working with streaming technologies such as Apache Kafka, Apache Flink, or Google Cloud Dataflow
• Hands-on experience with modern data orchestration tools like Dagster or Prefect
• Knowledge of data governance and cataloging tools like Great Expectations, Collibra, or Alation
• Experience in pricing, scoping, and proposal development for data engineering projects

Ready to take your career to the next level, join Expert Thinking!

Apply now!

Seniority level

• Director

Employment type

• Full-time

Job function

• Industries

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