Data Practice Director

Job summary

Cay*** is a cloud native services company that helps organizations bring the best out of their people and technology using Amazon Web Services (AWS). We provide a full-range of AWS services including workload migrations and modernization, cloud native application development, DevOps, data engineering, security and compliance, and everything in between. At Cay***, our people always come first.

Benefits

Qualifications

• Experience
• 12+ years of experience in professional services or consulting, with a strong focus on data engineering, analytics, or data platform delivery.
• Demonstrated success managing and growing a team of 20 or more data professionals in a services or consulting environment.
• Proven track record of delivering complex data projects on AWS, including data lake, lakehouse, streaming, and analytics workloads.
• Experience managing a portfolio of concurrent client engagements, balancing delivery quality with financial performance.
• Hands-on background in data architecture or engineering, with the ability to engage credibly with technical teams and client stakeholders alike.
• Leadership
• Strong people management
• Execution-Oriented: Skilled at translating strategy into structured plans and holding teams accountable to outcomes.
• Client-First Mindset: Genuinely invested in client success and capable of building durable, trust-based relationships.
• Collaborative Partner: Works effectively across sales, delivery, and practice leadership functions without siloed thinking.
• Clear Communicator: Able to convey complex technical and business concepts to diverse audiences with clarity and confidence.

Responsibilities

• This person is responsible for operationalizing the practice strategy, leading a team of data professionals, and owning delivery excellence across a portfolio of client engagements.

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Security clearance