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Practice Overview

Ankura's Digital Transformation practice helps clients modernize their organizations by leveraging data, analytics, automation, and artificial intelligence to drive measurable business outcomes. Our data engineering and data science experts design and develop enterprise data platforms that unify trusted data and provide a scalable foundation for reporting, advanced analytics, automation, and AI.

Role Overview

We are seeking a Managing Director to help lead and expand our Enterprise Data Platform capabilities. This senior leadership role combines technical vision, business development, client relationship management, delivery oversight, and team leadership. This is a USA remote based role, ideally located in the eastern time zone but central time zone could potentially work as well.

The Managing Director will serve as an executive advisor to clients, helping them define and execute enterprise data strategies and complex cloud-platform transformations. This individual will oversee a portfolio of engagements and client relationships, manage a book of business, originate and expand revenue opportunities, and ensure that solutions deliver measurable business value.

The Managing Director will also provide leadership across the practice by establishing technical direction, developing reusable capabilities and delivery standards, recruiting and developing high-performing teams, and overseeing technical execution across multiple clients and projects.

Responsibilities

Practice and Technical Leadership

• Help lead the strategy, development, and growth of Ankura's Enterprise Data Platform capabilities.

• Establish the technical vision, reference architectures, delivery methodologies, and engineering standards for cloud-based data platforms.

• Provide executive-level oversight of enterprise data platform design and development across multiple clients and engagements.

• Guide architectural decisions involving cloud infrastructure, data integration, data modeling, governance, security, analytics, automation, and AI enablement.

• Maintain current knowledge of emerging data, analytics, cloud, and AI technologies and translate relevant developments into new client offerings and practice capabilities.

• Develop reusable accelerators, methodologies, and intellectual property that improve delivery quality, speed, and scalability.

Client and Commercial Leadership

• Build and maintain trusted relationships with C-suite executives, business leaders, and senior technology stakeholders.

• Advise clients on enterprise data strategy, platform architecture, technology selection, operating models, investment priorities, and transformation roadmaps.

• Manage and grow a book of business spanning multiple clients and engagements.

• Originate new opportunities and expand existing client relationships by identifying additional needs and developing relevant solutions.

• Lead business-development activities, including opportunity qualification, solution development, proposal preparation, pricing, presentations, and contract negotiations.

• Communicate the business value of enterprise data platforms and connect technical investments to measurable financial and operational outcomes.

• Represent Ankura's Digital Transformation practice in the market through executive relationships, industry forums, strategic partnerships, and thought leadership.

Engagement and Delivery Oversight

• Provide executive sponsorship and delivery oversight across a portfolio of complex data-platform programs.

• Ensure engagements are appropriately scoped, staffed, governed, and aligned with client objectives and contractual commitments.

• Oversee large-scale data integration and platform implementations using technologies such as Databricks, Snowflake, Microsoft Fabric, and comparable platforms.

• Guide data orchestration and integration strategies using technologies such as Azure Data Factory, Airflow, Informatica, and other enterprise tools.

• Monitor engagement economics, delivery quality, resource utilization, risks, timelines, and client satisfaction.

• Ensure platforms meet expectations for scalability, reliability, security, governance, performance, maintainability, and cost efficiency.

• Intervene proactively to resolve significant technical, delivery, commercial, or client relationship issues.

• Maintain accountability for high-quality delivery and measurable client outcomes across the portfolio.

Team and Capability Development

• Build, lead, and develop multidisciplinary teams of data architects, data engineers, data scientists, technical leads, and delivery professionals.

• Recruit and retain high-performing professionals across onshore, nearshore, and offshore delivery teams.

• Establish clear roles, career paths, competency expectations, and development plans for technical team members.

• Mentor senior leaders and create opportunities for them to assume greater client, commercial, and delivery responsibility.

• Promote collaboration among data engineering, data science, analytics, automation, AI, business transformation, and change-management professionals.

• Develop scalable staffing and delivery models that support practice growth while maintaining quality and financial performance.

Qualifications

• Typically 12-15+ years of experience in data engineering, enterprise data architecture, analytics, or related technology consulting, including substantial senior leadership responsibility.

• Proven experience leading the design and delivery of enterprise-grade cloud data platforms and large-scale data transformation programs.

• Demonstrated success managing and growing a significant book of consulting business across multiple clients.

• Established record of developing executive client relationships, originating opportunities, and converting those opportunities into successful engagements.

• Deep knowledge of enterprise data architecture, integration, data modeling, governance, metadata management, data quality, security, and cloud-platform principles.

• Strong experience with data and analytics platforms such as Databricks, Snowflake, Microsoft Fabric, or comparable technologies.

• Strong understanding of ETL, ELT, and orchestration technologies such as Azure Data Factory, Airflow, Informatica, or similar platforms.

• Ability to connect data-platform investments to business strategy, operational improvement, financial performance, and measurable value realization.

• Demonstrated experience overseeing multiple concurrent engagements, delivery teams, and client relationships.

• Proven ability to recruit, organize, mentor, and develop high-performing technical and consulting teams.

• Strong commercial judgment, including experience with engagement economics, pricing, contracting, resource planning, and risk management.

• Executive-level communication, presentation, facilitation, and relationship-management skills.

• Strong business acumen, entrepreneurial orientation, and results-focused leadership style.

• Experience leading geographically distributed, multi-team, or multi-vendor delivery models is strongly preferred.

• Experience with advanced analytics, machine learning, generative AI, real-time data processing, or AI-enabled enterprise solutions is preferred.

• Relevant cloud, data-platform, or architecture certifications are beneficial.

• Willingness to travel up to 20-25% including potential international travel.

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, information systems, data science, or a related field is required; an advanced degree is preferred.

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