Principal Consultant

An opportunity is available to join DAS42 as Principal Consultant. The Principal Consultant will lead the strategic direction of client engagements, including analysis, architecture, design, and development of best practices for cloud data solutions. This person will be a key member of our consulting staff and will mentor technical Analytics Managers. This position reports to the Practice Lead of the BI and Data Warehousing Department.

Client Project Work

• Lead the strategic direction of up to 8 projects concurrently
• Responsible for designing solutions and best practices to solve client pain points using a data-driven business strategy and best in class technology toolset
• Partner deeply with clients throughout the project lifecycle to:
• Understand clients’ business objectives and how DAS42 can deliver against them with our capabilities and technology partners
• Build a vision for each client and project to provide them with a clear roadmap to build a data driven culture and mature analytics capabilities
• Articulate the value that DAS42 brings to our clients
• Collaborate with the Sales Team to identify opportunities to expand engagements based on client needs and feedback
• Serve as the escalation point for client technical issues and requests
• Drive alignment with partner account teams (such as Snowflake and Looker) to ensure our joint customers’ success
• Understand client’s industry and related news, trends, pain points and challenges, to ensure our strategic guidance and solution are based not only in domain expertise but industry expertise and perspective
• Guide project Analytics Manager responsible for leading the technical execution of client projects
• Ensure delivery excellence in partnership with our Project Management and account management teams

Internal Non-Project Work

• • Manage and mentor 2-4 Analytics Managers
    • Provide performance feedback, reviews, and coaching
  • Help build and lead a world-class technical delivery team focused on analytics and data engineering
  • Institutionalize DAS42 best practices, based on project experiences, to create repeatable delivery processes and effective training materials.  
  • Be an industry thought leader utilizing blog posts, articles, speaking opportunities, and others that help expand the brand and expertise of DAS42

• A passion for technology and for helping companies solve business problems with data
• 5-8 years of client-facing experience in a consulting or services environment
• Proven ability to solve client pain points using data and analytics
• Deep experience managing several teams and leading multiple complex projects simultaneously
• Proven ability to build trusted client relationships with business and technical stakeholders
• Excellent written and oral communication skills
• Experience with, and/or experience managing technical teams who use data analytics programming languages such as SQL, Python, or R
• Experience with, and/or experience managing technical teams who use BI platforms such as Looker, Tableau, or Thoughtspot
• Experience with, and/or willingness to learn, data pipeline and cloud warehousing tools such as Apache Airflow and Snowflake
• BA/BS degree required, ideally in a quantitatively oriented degree (e.g. Computer Science, Math, Statistics, Economics). Advanced degree a plus.

• Anticipated Travel: 25%-50%
• Location Options: Remote within the U.S., or Hybrid work options from any office hub. 
• Base Salary Range: $140K-$165K