Practice Area Lead - Data Engineering

BI : PROCSI; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading data consultancy seeks a Practice Area Lead for Data Engineering to shape the strategic oversight of analytics and AI/ML Ops. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in senior leadership roles, especially within technology or data consultancies. You will guide architectural decisions, manage C-Suite relationships, and ensure solutions meet client objectives. This role offers a full-time position with remote flexibility, requiring robust technical expertise and the ability to coach senior talent.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in a senior/practice leadership role within a technology or data consultancy.
• Proven track record shaping data analytics and AI/ML engineering strategies at enterprise scale.
• Significant experience owning and influencing C-Suite relationships.
• Deep expertise in Data Engineering, Data Warehousing, SQL, cloud-native platforms.
• Strong experience with DataOps/MLOps, pipeline orchestration, CI/CD, security.
• Experience leading presales engagements, proposals, RFP responses.
• Strong background in managing multiple delivery streams and complex portfolios.
• Ability to communicate technical concepts clearly to varied audiences.

Responsibilities

• Set technical standards across BI Data Engineering, Analytics, and AI/ML Ops.
• Lead solution architecture for proposals and major client engagements.
• Shape integration and cloud architecture across all projects.
• Own quality SLAs and technical risk across the portfolio.
• Advise C-Suite stakeholders on data analytics and AI strategy.
• Define CI/CD security and compliance standards.

Job description

Location - Remote with one day in London once every two weeks (Holborn)

Overview

We are hiring a Practice Area Lead for Data Engineering to shape and own the strategic direction of BI Data Engineering Analytics and AI / ML Ops across BI : PROCSI. You will provide both hands-on technical leadership and portfolio-level oversight ensuring our solutions scale align with client objectives and accelerate BI : PROCSIs growth.

This role blends deep technical expertise architectural leadership C-Suite engagement cross-practice alignment and responsibility for practice-wide standards frameworks and innovation.

You will own high-value client relationships lead technical strategy in presales and ensure all commitments are realistic scalable secure and commercially sound. You will guide teams in delivering resilient compliant enterprise-grade data solutions tailored to client strategic outcomes.

Key Responsibilities

• Set technical standards across BI Data Engineering Analytics and AI / ML Ops.
• Lead solution architecture for proposals RFPs and major client engagements.
• Define DataOps / MLOps best practice and ensure pipelines are scalable and secure.
• Shape integration and cloud architecture across all projects.
• Own quality SLAs and technical risk across the portfolio.
• Advise C-Suite stakeholders on data analytics and AI strategy.
• Drive cross-practice alignment and continuous improvement.
• Define CI / CD security and compliance standards.
• Lead innovation and introduce modern architectures (lakehouse mesh feature stores).
• Coach senior technical talent and shape capability growth.
• Manage partner strategy and represent BI : PROCSI externally.

Essential Experience

• Extensive experience in a senior / practice leadership role within a technology or data consultancy.
• Proven track record shaping data analytics and AI / ML engineering strategies at enterprise scale.
• Significant experience owning and influencing C-Suite relationships.
• Deep expertise in Data Engineering Data Warehousing SQL cloud-native data platforms and modern analytics architectures.
• Strong experience with DataOps / MLOps pipeline orchestration CI / CD security and compliance.
• Experience leading presales engagements proposals RFP responses and technical scoping.
• Strong background in managing multiple delivery streams and complex technical portfolios.
• Ability to challenge influence and guide cross-functional teams on architectural decisions.
• Ability to communicate technical concepts clearly to non-technical and executive audiences.

Desirable

• Experience evaluating and implementing modern architectures including lakehouse data mesh and feature stores.
• Experience representing a consultancy in industry forums or partner advisory boards.
• Experience driving practice-wide innovation or capability uplift initiatives.

Why BI : PROCSI

We started this company with a goal, a goal to be the very best. We dont just believe it; we know our team is our biggest asset. Were a group of passionate innovators (nerds) obsessed with personal growth that believes in challenging the status quo to ensure we come up with the best solutions.

We have a phenomenal culture unparalleled drive and every single person in our team is very carefully selected to make sure we maintain this. We are diverse and we celebrate that. We are whole people with families hobbies and lives outside of work and make sure we have a healthy work-life balance.

We are rapidly expanding and on a growth trajectory. We are continuously hiring at all levels across Business Intelligence Analytics Data Warehousing Data Science and Data Engineering.

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Key Skills

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Employment Type

• Full Time

Experience

• years

Vacancy

• 1