Data Analytics Consultant

Mutually Human; Michigan; On-site; USD 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Mutually Human is seeking a Data Analytics Consultant to join our Data & Analytics practice. You will be embedded on client engagements, shaping the analytical direction of projects, executing across the data stack, and translating technical findings into business value for stakeholders.

You will lead discovery sessions, define analytical scope, and deliver actionable insights across data engineering, BI, and data science, while communicating with both technical teams and executives to drive

Qualifications

• Experience in data analytics, data science, or a related consulting or delivery role.
• Demonstrated ability to lead client-facing engagements: discovery, scoping, roadmapping, and requirements definition.
• Proven ability to translate technical findings into executive-ready narratives and recommendations.
• Broad hands-on execution capability across data engineering, business intelligence, and data science.
• Independently frames, scopes, and leads analytical and modeling problems from ambiguous business questions.
• Selects, trains, and evaluates models using appropriate validation techniques.
• Strong grasp of statistical foundations: hypothesis testing, experimental design, regression, probability theory.
• Applied experience with MLOps concepts: model serving, monitoring, and explainability.
• Track record of managing multiple workstreams and client relationships in a project-based delivery environment.
• Comfortable navigating ambiguous client briefs, working with limited information, and scoping work iteratively.

Responsibilities

• Lead client-facing discovery sessions to understand business problems, define analytical scope, and align on delivery approach.
• Translate ambiguous client needs into structured delivery requirements, project plans, and executable workstreams.
• Serve as a trusted advisor to client stakeholders on data strategy, analytical approach, and solution tradeoffs.
• Own and lead analytical and modeling initiatives from problem definition through delivery with minimal oversight.
• Execute hands-on across data engineering, business intelligence, and data science disciplines as project needs demand.
• Communicate results, insights, and recommendations clearly to both technical and executive audiences.
• Design and interpret analyses involving ambiguous or noisy data; explain tradeoffs between accuracy, interpretability, and business impact.
• Review teammates’ work for correctness, clarity, and best practices; mentor less experienced team members.
• Contribute to project scoping, estimation, and delivery planning with project leadership.
• Ask clarifying questions before diving in, flag blockers early, and proactively manage stakeholder expectations.

Skills

Client leadership

Data analytics

Data science

Data engineering

Business intelligence

Experimentation

MLOps basics

Stakeholder mgmt

Communication

Project scoping

Tools

Git

Jupyter

Spark / PySpark

MLflow

DVC

Job description

We are a consulting and engineering firm that helps clients solve complex data, analytics, and technology challenges. We are growing our Data & Analytics practice and looking for a Data Analytics Consultant who thrives where business thinking meets technical execution.

The right candidate is as comfortable leading a client discovery session as they are building a data pipeline or analytical model. You translate ambiguous business problems into clear delivery requirements, execute across data engineering, business intelligence, and data science, and communicate results in ways that drive real decisions.

About the Role

As a Data Analytics Consultant, you will be embedded on client engagements where you shape the analytical direction of a project, execute across the data stack, and translate technical findings into business value. You serve as a trusted advisor to client stakeholders while maintaining the hands-on technical credibility to deliver.

Responsibilities

• Lead client-facing discovery sessions to understand business problems, define analytical scope, and align on delivery approach
• Translate ambiguous client needs into structured delivery requirements, project plans, and executable workstreams
• Serve as a trusted advisor to client stakeholders on data strategy, analytical approach, and solution tradeoffs
• Own and lead analytical and modeling initiatives from problem definition through delivery with minimal oversight
• Execute hands-on across data engineering, business intelligence, and data science disciplines as project needs demand
• Communicate results, insights, and recommendations clearly to both technical and executive audiences
• Design and interpret analyses involving ambiguous or noisy data; explain tradeoffs between accuracy, interpretability, and business impact
• Review teammates’ work for correctness, clarity, and best practices; mentor less experienced team members
• Contribute to project scoping, estimation, and delivery planning with project leadership
• Ask clarifying questions before diving in, flag blockers early, and proactively manage stakeholder expectations

Skills & Experience

• Experience in data analytics, data science, or a related consulting or delivery role
• Demonstrated ability to lead client-facing engagements: discovery, scoping, roadmapping, and requirements definition
• Proven ability to translate technical findings into executive-ready narratives and recommendations
• Broad hands-on execution capability across data engineering (pipelines, ELT/ETL), business intelligence (reporting, dashboards), and data science (modeling, experimentation)
• Independently frames, scopes, and leads analytical and modeling problems from ambiguous business questions
• Selects, trains, and evaluates models using appropriate validation techniques
• Strong grasp of statistical foundations: hypothesis testing, experimental design, regression, probability theory
• Applied experience with MLOps concepts: model serving, monitoring, and explainability
• Track record of managing multiple workstreams and client relationships in a project-based delivery environment
• Comfortable navigating ambiguous client briefs, working with limited information, and scoping work iteratively

Tools & Technologies

CORE STACK

• Version control: Git
• Notebooks & exploration: Jupyter

PLATFORMS & CLOUD

• Distributed processing: Spark, PySpark
• Pipeline & MLOps tooling: MLflow, DVC

ML APPROACHES

• Supervised and unsupervised learning; regression, classification, clustering
• Experimental design, A/B testing, and causal inference
• Applied NLP or LLM integration experience a plus
• Familiarity with deep learning concepts

Nice to Have

AI TOOLING & APPLIED PROJECTS

The analytics landscape is shifting fast. We value candidates who have rolled up their sleeves with AI tools - not theoretical familiarity, but things actually built or experimented with:

• Hands-on experience integrating LLMs into analytical workflows - prompt engineering, RAG, or AI-assisted data exploration
• Built or contributed to a project using AI APIs (OpenAI, Anthropic, Hugging Face, etc.)
• Experience using AI-assisted coding tools (GitHub Copilot, Cursor, etc.) to accelerate analysis or pipeline development
• Portfolio, GitHub repo, or write-up demonstrating curiosity and initiative with AI tooling
• Awareness of responsible AI principles (bias, fairness, and explainability) especially in client-facing contexts

What Great Looks Like

• You walk into an ambiguous client situation and leave with a clear path forward
• You ask clarifying questions before diving in and flag blockers early
• You care about the business outcome, not just the model metric
• You communicate uncertainty honestly - not just the answer, but your confidence in it
• You build reproducible, well-documented analyses that others can build on
• You leave codebases, teammates, and client relationships better than you found them