Principal Consultant - Data & Analytics

About the Role – Principal Consultant, Data & Analytics
As a Principal Consultant – Data & Analytics at Innovior, you'll play a key role in transforming how our clients harness data to enhance performance, spark innovation, and make strategic decisions.

This is an exciting, hands-on, client-facing leadership position where you'll guide organizations in designing and delivering modern, scalable data platforms. You'll work across a variety of industries, architecting impactful data solutions using cutting-edge technologies and frameworks like Azure, Snowflake, Databricks, dbt, and Spark.

You will be instrumental in shaping end-to-end engagements—from the initial discovery and strategic planning phases to the technical design and delivery of robust data ecosystems. With your deep technical expertise and strong consulting skills, you'll become a trusted advisor to senior stakeholders, helping to drive meaningful and measurable outcomes.

What You'll Be Doing

• Lead Data Engineering Delivery: Architect and implement modular, scalable pipelines using Medallion architecture principles across batch and streaming workloads. Apply best practices in orchestration, CI/CD, and reusable component design.

• Client Advisory & Strategy: Collaborate with senior stakeholders to understand business goals and craft tailored data strategies. Lead discovery sessions and executive briefings, translating business challenges into actionable data roadmaps.

• Solution Ownership: Drive the end-to-end design of enterprise-grade data solutions, ensuring alignment with data governance, maturity, and enterprise architecture.

• Technical Leadership: Provide mentorship and quality assurance across delivery teams. Guide the implementation of Data Mesh principles and ensure engineering excellence.

• Thought Leadership: Stay ahead of data trends and emerging technologies to inform internal capability growth and client recommendations. Contribute to Innovior’s reputation as a trusted leader in Data & AI.

• Pre-sales & Practice Growth: Work alongside Sales and Consulting teams to shape proposals, estimates, and prototypes. Contribute to go-to-market assets and delivery accelerators.

• Team Development: Coach and develop consultants and engineers across technical and consulting capabilities. Foster a high-performance, collaborative team culture.

• Commercial Focus: Identify new opportunities within engagements, support the design of commercial models, and ensure value is delivered in line with business and profitability goals.

What We’re Looking For

• Proven experience in leading the design and delivery of large-scale data engineering or analytics initiatives.

• Deep knowledge of modern data platforms (e.g., Azure, Snowflake, Databricks) and tools (e.g., dbt, Airflow, Spark).

• Strong consulting skills with the ability to engage senior stakeholders and shape strategic conversations.

• Understanding of data governance, data architecture, and cloud-native solution design.

• A passion for mentoring, enabling teams, and contributing to a high-performance culture.

• Ability to drive delivery outcomes while identifying and nurturing commercial opportunities.