Director - Data Engineering

About the Company:

Headquartered in California, U.S.A., GSPANN provides consulting and IT services to global clients. We help clients transform how they deliver business value by helping them optimize their IT capabilities, practices, and operations with our experience in retail, high-technology, and manufacturing. With five global delivery centers and 1900+ employees, we provide the intimacy of a boutique consultancy with the capabilities of a large IT services firm.

Role: Director - Data Engineering

Experience: 16+ Yrs

Work Location: Hyderabad

Required Experience:

• A proven modern Data engineering & Analytics leader with 15 - 20 years of overall experience in leading distributed teams (Min -100+ Team Size)
• Experience in managing execution of Data Engineering & Analytics programs, in a technical hands-on capacity on leading cloud data platforms
• Demonstrable leadership in building and managing & motivating high performing teams for data engineering, analytics & Data Science
• 3-4 years experience in leading and managing practice level operations at a large tier 1 services organization
• Experience managing delivery & operations of an organization/portfolio of at least 150 people
• Experience in Client Management - Exposure in an onsite client facing role is desired
• Experience working with globally distributed team and stake holders
• Experience leading Pre-sales activities from offshore for new opportunities and proposals
• Experience in handling escalations and taking complete responsibility and ownership on all critical/major issues related to delivery
• Possess top-notch consulting skills on data and analytics related domain & technology
• Excellent communication skills
• Familiarity with retail, hi-tech & manufacturing domain

Roles & Responsibilities:

Delivery Management:

• Develop, review & manage critical solutions, review health of projects and accounts
• Partner and collaborate with other technology practices within the organization
• Develop relevant solutions and capabilities to provide compelling differentiation in the markets that we operate in
• Contribute to account/practice growth by pro-actively working with Client Partners in identifying the new opportunities and identify resource needs
• Performance management:
• Experience leading performance management cycles define goals and measurement for the goals
• Conducting appraisal cycles for the practice
• Managing feedback and building recommendations for compensation & benefits

Unit Operations:

• P&L management through effective resource utilization.
• Planning and executing day to day operations for the practice
• Capability to manage changing operational goals and demands
• Work with HR and Hiring teams in attracting and retaining the right talent and timely fulfillment of resource needs
• Strategize, Build and Streamline operations and processes in co-ordination with sales and delivery teams