Practice Delivery Principal Data Strategy & Architecture
Location: Onsite in Nashville TN (some flexibility light travel possible)
Type: FullTime
Compensation: $160K$180K base excellent benefits PTO
Utilization Target: 75% billable
Overview:
A leading consulting firm is hiring a Practice Delivery Principal to help scale their Data & Analytics practice in Nashville. This is a clientfacing highimpact leadership role focused on enterprise data strategy consulting delivery and presales. The firm works with Fortune 500 clients in industries like healthcare financial services and logistics.
This is a newly created role not a backfill. The ideal candidate brings 810 years of experience spanning data consulting client leadership and technical delivery. Must be capable of leading teams guiding enterprise clients through ambiguity and shaping strategic data solutions with a consultative mindset.
Key Responsibilities:
- Act as a data strategy advisor to enterprise clients aligning technical initiatives with business value.
- Lead delivery of complex data programs including data warehousing ETL modernization governance and cloud migration.
- Serve as the lead point of contact and trusted advisor for clients especially in presales and solution architecture discussions.
- Coach and mentor internal consultants to elevate team performance and technical maturity.
- Drive utilization delivery excellence and client satisfaction across multiple active engagements.
Top Skills Required:
- Strong consulting and business acumen ability to advise stakeholders and drive outcomes not just deliver code.
- Leadership experience running clientfacing technical teams.
- Handson background with data architecture ETL pipelines and cloud platforms.
- Experience with AWS and/or Azure (GCP is a bonus).
- Knowledge of tools like Snowflake Databricks Azure Data Factory Python APIs SSIS or other modern data stack tools.
- Comfortable navigating presales SOW creation and delivery planning in enterprise environments.
Ideal Candidate:
- Has worked in professional services or consulting firms.
- Brings a blend of technical credibility and clientfacing polish.
- Can confidently own a room steer conversations and guide highstakes decisions.
- Wants to help build something this is a growthoriented role on a growing team.
Nice to Have:
- Data governance or strategy frameworks.
- Experience in regulated industries like healthcare or financial services.
- Local to Nashville and open to regular inoffice presence.