Principal Data Consultant

SourcingXPress; Bengaluru; Hybrid; INR 1,500,000 - 2,500,000; Full time

Job summary

SourcingXPress, located in Bengaluru, India, is seeking a Principal Data Excellence Consultant to enhance our Data Quality and Governance initiatives. This hybrid role involves client-facing projects, internal implementations, and collaboration with our talented Data Excellence team.

The ideal candidate will have 10 to 14 years of data engineering experience, strong commercial acumen, and a proactive approach to problem-solving. Join us to make a significant impact in a growing consultancy with a varied client base.

Qualifications

• 10 to 14 years of professional data engineering experience.
• Proactive, dynamic, and innovative individual.
• Excellent communication skills to convey complex ideas.

Responsibilities

• Put together compelling customer propositions.
• Grow internal and external product offerings.
• Conduct hands-on work with partner technologies.

Skills

Data architecture within transformation projects

Business data modelling

Data Quality

Data Cataloguing

Metadata management

MDM

Data governance

Data Migration

Data analysis

Client issue diagnosis

Job description

Overview

We are looking for an experienced Principal Data Excellence Consultant to join a growing consultancy and work in its talented teams with specific accountability around Data Quality to support and increase our Data Governance focus.

This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced professional that would sit within our Data Excellence pillar to evolve and make their mark within an established team of consultants, with opportunities to develop a strong career path within an ambitious consultancy across a varied client base and ultimately form trust in provision of data to all consumers.

You’ll sit within our Data Excellence division and report into our Data Excellence Practice Director. In terms of data skills, Data Excellence spans multiple disciplines, including data architecture, data modelling, data quality, metadata management, data governance, data literacy, and data responsibility. Above all, we care about encouraging a cultural shift in the way businesses view data and ensuring we instil trust in data throughout its whole lifecycle providing that ultimate kitemark / stamp on data to consume with confidence. The Data Excellence goal is to implement required and desired business capabilities, treating data as an asset.

We are looking for hands‑on data talent, as well as growing business development mentality. The Data Excellence focus at is entrepreneurial in nature, which is why we seek a good measure of commercial acumen too. This is a hybrid role, covering client facing projects and internal implementations.

Your Typical Week Will Include

• Putting together compelling customers propositions
• Growing our internal and external product offerings along with our Data Excellence team
• Hands‑on with partner technologies including Data Cataloguing and associated tools
• Creating reusable material for marketing, internal and external facing
• Producing PoC & testing for our solution proposals for clients as well as marketable value propositions
• Contributing to internal data excellence implementation and growth
• Contributing towards publications and socialisation of our service offering
• Identifying opportunities and creating awareness with potential clients

Skills

• Data architecture within transformation projects
• Business data modelling
• Data Quality
• Data Cataloguing
• Metadata management
• MDM
• Data governance: policies, roles, and responsibilities
• Data Migration
• Data analysis
• Capable of diagnosing client issues whilst identifying opportunities as well as providing compelling practical solutions
• Good understanding of organisation core functions: Sales & Marketing, Finance, Human resources, Learning, Risk and Legal, Supply Chain
• Ideally, technology experience within the capabilities of Data Quality Management, Cataloguing and Metadata Management

A bit about you

• Has 10 to 14 years of professional data engineering experience.
• Proactive, dynamic and innovative individual, driven by delivering quality work, with a great eye for detail
• Takes accountability and ownership of tasks, and finds the best way to solve problems
• An excellent communicator who can make sense of and communicate complex ideas
• Ability to quickly understand client context and demonstrate expertise in their business
• A relationship builder, with the ability to motivate and engage effectively to build trust with clients and colleagues
• An interest in industry trends, emerging technologies, and client’s businesses