Data Practice Director

📋 Description

• • The Data Practice Director is a senior leadership role within Caylent’s Cloud Data Engineering (CDE) practice, responsible for operationalizing practice strategy, leading a team of data professionals, and owning delivery excellence across client engagements. This role bridges strategic direction and day-to-day execution to ensure consistent, high-quality outcomes while scaling to meet growth targets.
• • Day to day, the role involves owning end-to-end delivery oversight for data engineering and analytics engagements, driving operational rigor (utilization, staffing, margin tracking), developing delivery standards, serving as an escalation point for technical and client issues, translating strategy into quarterly priorities and OKRs, leading and developing a distributed team of data engineers and architects, building trusted advisor relationships with client stakeholders, partnering with sales on business development, identifying expansion opportunities, and contributing to thought leadership and practice IP development.
• • Caylent is a cloud-native services company specializing in AWS solutions, operating fully remote with teams across Canada, the United States, and Latin America. The company prioritizes people, fosters a culture of technological curiosity, and values diversity and inclusion as core to its identity as an equal opportunity employer.
• • In this role, the individual can develop senior leadership and strategic influence within a high-growth consulting environment, deepen expertise in AWS data services and modern data ecosystems, build and scale a high-performing global team, drive practice growth through innovation and go-to-market initiatives, and establish themselves as a trusted advisor to executive-level clients while advancing Caylent’s market presence in cloud data engineering.