•  The role of a Practice Delivery Head - DATA and ANALYTICS will focus on customer success, delivery management, people management and drive growth by cultivating deep customer relationships through the implementations of Data Science and Analytics related solutions.

• Should be an expert in Designing, implementing & supporting Enterprise Data Platforms / Data Warehouse / Big Data (Data Lake) solutions including ETL data pipeline, BI Reporting, analytics and AI/ Machine Learning.

• Experience working across all pillars/capabilities in Data & Analytics involving Data Integration, Data Management, Data Governance & Data Exploration

• In-Depth expertise in Data engineering tools & solutions covering traditional RDBMS/ NoSQL databases, Data Warehousing ETL & BI / Reporting tools

• Experience working within a large, complex and geographically spread teams in a matrix structure including managing medium to large teams both directly as well as dotted line reporting

• End-to-end project management experience covering project planning, estimation, scheduling, monitoring of progress & project delivery as per quality and time norms

• Strong stakeholder management capabilities with an ability to engage, influence and collaborate with stakeholders across organizational boundaries enabling high standards of outcome

• Leveraging Technology – Knowledge of current and upcoming technology (automation, tools and systems) to build efficiencies and effectiveness in own function/ Client organization

• Program Management – Execute projects with end-outcome and process focus, along with understanding of delivery processes and its governance

• Solution Focus – Apply design thinking to bring about new and novel solutions or changes in processes, products or the way business is conducted

• Technical knowledge – architecture design principles, framework and documentation.

• Oversee the Collaboration with offshore team to design, develop and configure the product to customer specifications.

• Support the Pre-Sales process

• Oversee the Liaison with the operations, sales, marketing, and product management team to ensure the best experience for the customer and that customer requirements are considered for product evolution.

Required

• Effective communication & people skills

• Exceptional leadership, verbal & written communication and problem-solving skills; ability to drive change

• Analytics: The candidate should be proficient in the workings of data technologies/languages.

Experience

• Should have an experience of overall 15+ years’ in IT industry.

• At least 5 years of experience and a proven track record of spearheading large-scale data and analytics transformation projects, including setting up and operationalization of a Data warehouse / Business Intelligence (DW/BI) platform.

• Experience of setting up, managing and leading an in-house technology team of analytics experts, data scientists, data integration experts etc.

• Experience in delivering analytics led projects for CPG leading to the development of useful insights and the improvement of a business’s performance and driving top-line growth.

• Experienced in senior stakeholder, internal & external partner management