Client Principal: Data, Analytics & AI Strategy

Presidio; United States; On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Presidio is seeking a Client Principal, Digital Data, Analytics and AI to lead executive discovery, strategy, and solution shaping for enterprise data and AI engagements.

The role partners with account teams, architects, and delivery leaders to turn complex challenges into viable solutions and ensure successful delivery with less than 25% travel. You will advise across Snowflake, Databricks, and Fabric and drive modernization roadmaps.

Qualifications

• 15+ years in data, analytics, software engineering, cloud architecture, consulting, or related field.
• Significant client-facing technical presales experience as architect, principal consultant, or senior solution leader.
• Delivery leadership: customer implementation and technical delivery leadership experience.
• Workshop & proposal skills: ability to lead executive workshops, define solutions, write proposals and SOWs, and estimate delivery.
• Data engineering: ETL/ELT patterns across batch, streaming, event-driven pipelines; lakehouse and modern warehouse concepts.

Responsibilities

• Lead executive discovery, envisioning, assessments, and workshops; translate ambiguous problems into prioritized use cases, data products, and measurable outcomes.
• Build trusted relationships across business, data, application, security, and cloud teams; partner with account teams on opportunity qualification and strategy.
• Define end-to-end architectures across ingestion, integration, storage, transformation, governance, analytics, ML, and GenAI with depth in modern data platforms.
• Create proposals and SOWs with clear scope, staffing, estimates, risks, and dependencies.
• Provide architectural leadership through discovery, proof-of-value, pilot, and early implementation; mitigate technical risk.

Skills

Executive presence

Data & AI strategy

Presales leadership

Delivery leadership

Data engineering

Data modeling

GenAI fluency

Cloud breadth

Tools

Snowflake

Databricks

Microsoft Fabric

Job description

Presidio is seeking a Client Principal, Digital Data, Analytics and AI to lead executive discovery, strategy, and solution shaping for enterprise data and AI engagements.

The role partners with account teams, architects, and delivery leaders to turn complex challenges into viable solutions and ensure successful delivery with less than 25% travel. You will advise across Snowflake, Databricks, and Fabric and drive modernization roadmaps.