Director, Data & AI Consulting (Hybrid London)

Breakthrough Talent; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 120,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Performance bonus

Pension matched

Private health

Life insurance

Wellbeing plan

25 days holiday

Hybrid work

Job summary

Breakthrough Talent partners with a data and technology consultancy in London to hire a senior leader to own and grow their commercial data platforms practice. The role is client-facing, guiding from discovery and POC through to delivery, with potential to step into a Director-level role.

You will own the platform proposition built on Snowflake, Databricks and cloud, lead presales, design scalable data platforms for analytics, AI and marketing activation, and build a multidisciplinary delivery

Qualifications

• Experience in a senior client-facing role in a consultancy or technology services business.
• Strong presales record: shaping deals, writing proposals and presenting to executives.
• Credibility across modern cloud data platforms, especially Snowflake and Databricks.
• Experience delivering platforms for customer data, personalisation or marketing activation (CDP).

Responsibilities

• Own the commercial data platform proposition built on Snowflake, Databricks and modern cloud.
• Lead presales on strategic opportunities: shaping solutions, proposals and pitches to executives.
• Run client discovery and fast POCs to prove value and drive full builds.
• Design data platforms powering analytics, AI, customer intelligence and marketing activation.
• Advise clients on data governance and operating models for adoption and scale.
• Build relationships with Snowflake, Databricks and cloud partners for joint pipeline.
• Lead a multidisciplinary team of engineers, architects and delivery leads.

Skills

Pre-sales expertise

Snowflake & Databricks

Team leadership

CDP/Marketing activation

Tools

Snowflake

Databricks

Salesforce Marketing Cloud

Job description

Breakthrough Talent partners with a data and technology consultancy in London to hire a senior leader to own and grow their commercial data platforms practice. The role is client-facing, guiding from discovery and POC through to delivery, with potential to step into a Director-level role.

You will own the platform proposition built on Snowflake, Databricks and cloud, lead presales, design scalable data platforms for analytics, AI and marketing activation, and build a multidisciplinary delivery