Data Practice Director

This position is posted by Jobgether on behalf of a partner company. We are currently looking for a Data Practice Director in Canada.

This senior leadership role sits at the heart of a fast-growing cloud data consulting practice, responsible for turning strategic vision into high-impact execution across multiple client engagements. You will lead distributed teams of data engineers, architects, and analytics professionals while ensuring consistent delivery excellence across complex AWS-based projects. The role blends operational leadership, technical credibility, and client-facing advisory responsibilities in a high-growth, global environment. You will partner closely with practice leadership to shape quarterly priorities, delivery standards, and capability development. Acting as both a delivery authority and a people leader, you will ensure strong financial performance, scalable delivery models, and exceptional client outcomes. This is a highly influential position where your leadership directly shapes practice growth, team culture, and long-term customer success.

In this role, you will oversee end-to-end delivery and operational performance across a portfolio of data engineering and analytics engagements while ensuring quality, profitability, and timely execution.

• Lead delivery oversight across multiple concurrent client projects, ensuring on-time, on-budget, and high-quality outcomes aligned with contractual commitments.
• Drive operational discipline across staffing, utilization, margin tracking, engagement health, and delivery governance.
• Define and enforce best practices, reusable frameworks, and delivery standards to scale consistency across teams.
• Act as an escalation point for complex delivery challenges, resolving technical, scope, and client issues in partnership with engagement leads.
• Translate practice strategy into executable plans and quarterly objectives in collaboration with senior leadership.
• Lead client-facing engagements as a trusted advisor, supporting strategic discussions, issue resolution, and account growth opportunities.
• Support practice expansion through input into solutioning, pre-sales activities, and identification of new business opportunities.

Requirements

This role requires deep experience in data consulting, strong leadership capability, and the ability to operate across both strategic and hands-on delivery environments.

• 12+ years of experience in consulting or professional services, with a strong focus on data engineering, analytics, or data platforms.
• Proven success leading and scaling teams of 20+ data professionals in a distributed, fast-paced environment.
• Strong experience delivering complex cloud data solutions on AWS, including data lakes, lakehouse architectures, streaming, and analytics systems.
• Deep technical understanding of data engineering concepts such as ingestion, transformation (e.g., Spark, dbt), data modeling, governance, and quality.
• Strong leadership skills with experience coaching, developing, and retaining high-performing technical teams.
• Demonstrated ability to manage multiple client engagements while balancing delivery excellence and financial performance.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills with experience engaging senior (Director to C-level) client leaders.
• Ability to bridge technical depth and business strategy, with credibility in architecture and delivery discussions.

Benefits

• 100% remote work flexibility across Canada and eligible regions
• Competitive base salary: CAD $207,000 – $272,000 annually (based on experience and scope)
• Bonus, equity (phantom equity), and additional incentive opportunities
• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision insurance for employees and dependents
• Generous PTO, paid holidays, and flexible time-off policies
• Annual learning and development budget, certifications, and exam reimbursements
• Home office, equipment, and internet stipends
• Retirement savings support (where applicable)
• Peer recognition and bonus programs
• Inclusive, global team culture with strong emphasis on collaboration and growth