Senior Data & Analytics Leader - Principal Consultant

Datacom; Tauranga; Hybrid; NZD 160,000 - 220,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Paid parental leave

Employee Assistance Programme

Learning & development

Career development

Industry-leading platforms

Employee discounts

Meaningful work

Job summary

Datacom, orng Well-placed Hybrid Data & Analytics team, seeks a Principal Consultant to lead the delivery of robust Data Platform solutions and guide client engagements. You will design, implement and own end-to-end data platform components while communicating effectively with stakeholders and teams.

The role emphasises strategic thinking, leadership, and a strong focus on data analytics, AI considerations, and enablement across projects within a progressive Professional Services group.

Qualifications

• Minimum 8+ years’ experience in EDW design and implementation.
• Minimum 8+ years’ experience in ETL architecting and design.
• Minimum 8+ years’ experience in data modelling.
• Minimum 5+ years’ experience in semantic layer development.
• Minimum 3+ years’ experience in Power BI architectures.
• Minimum 3+ years’ experience in pre-sales solutioning, commercial proposal development, and client solution presentations.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with sales and account teams to shape proposals and solution designs during pre-sales engagements.
• Lead client presentations and solution walkthroughs to articulate value and differentiation.
• Identify opportunities for upselling and expanding service offerings within existing accounts.
• Facilitate stakeholder workshops to gather and clarify business requirements.
• Lead the technical architecture, design and delivery for new Modern Data Platform solutions.
• Provide overall thought leadership to clients regarding data analytics and integration recommendations.
• Provide thought leadership around the effective use of AI in the data platform landscape.
• Perform performance tuning/optimisation, and feature audits on data platform solutions.
• Provide detailed documentation, end user training and knowledge-transfer services to clients, and internal teams.
• Mentor developers, acting as an SME in data platform/warehouse architectures and data modelling

Skills

Stakeholder engagement

Pre-sales solutioning

Business value alignment

Client management

Cloud architecture

Data platforms (Fabric, Snowflake, Dat

ETL/ELT design

Python development

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Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science or related discipline

Tools

Azure

AWS

GCP

Fabric

Snowflake

Databricks

Synapse Analytics

Data Factory

dbt

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Job description

Datacom, orng Well-placed Hybrid Data & Analytics team, seeks a Principal Consultant to lead the delivery of robust Data Platform solutions and guide client engagements. You will design, implement and own end-to-end data platform components while communicating effectively with stakeholders and teams.

The role emphasises strategic thinking, leadership, and a strong focus on data analytics, AI considerations, and enablement across projects within a progressive Professional Services group.