Principal Data Architect Consultant

Who are we?

Sourced is a global cloud consultancy that helps enterprises make the most of cloud services with a focus on security, governance and compliance. With offices around the globe, we provide professional services for securing, migrating and managing the cloud infrastructure of large enterprise customers. We specialize in configuration management, automation, cloud computing, security and data management for a wide range of industries, including financial services, media, and telecommunications companies. By utilising our proven deployment frameworks, managed services, and trusted design patterns, we work with the largest and most security conscious organisations to unlock innovation through cloud computing.

As market leaders in Enterprise Cloud Transformation, we have top tier partner status with major cloud platform providers including AWS, Google and Microsoft Azure.

Sourced has recently joined the Amdocs Cloud Business Unit to accelerate innovation and amplify our delivery of professional services. Amdocs provides software and services to more than 350 communication and media providers in over 80 countries, has more than 40 years of industry experience and welcomes Sourced to its team of 30,000 employees.

In one sentence

Reporting to the Head of Consulting, our Principal Consultants are an integral part of the leadership team.   As part of this industry-leading team you define and implement cloud-based solutions that set the benchmark for best-in-class practices and enterprise architecture guidelines.

What will your job look like?

Consulting Excellence

• Builds and nurtures deep working relationships with internal and external stakeholders, as well as their counterparts in our clients and partners
• Leads a team of Sourced consulting experts, develops and implements enterprise data strategy and execution plans for strategic customer engagements with both global and regional impact, aligned to business goals
• Sets standards for good communication, sound decision making, and active problem-solving
• Reviewing business plans against the organisation's strategic mandate 
• Considers the long-term application and commercial viability of current research activities 
• Brings deep technical expertise and can consult effectively at all levels of an organisation
• Brings experience working with Enterprise architecture teams
• Comfortable presenting and defending design decisions in an Architecture Review Board and with C-level stakeholders
• Brings a forward-thinking approach towards Data, AI and Data Governance at an enterprise scale
• Ability to influence at scale 1:many
• Trusted adviser for our enterprise clients and requires the skills to excel at all aspects of business development, people management, relationship development, delivery of enterprise data solutions and program management in their accounts, following a player/coach model. 
• Driving C-level discussions and working closely with both our clients and our Sourced consulting team to tailor and define adoption and strategies for data and AI
• Providing guidance and support to business and application delivery teams to fully demonstrate the benefits of data 
• Deep experience/credibility in delivering solutions in security conscious and heavily regulated environments

Growth Strategy for Data across North America

• Support pursuit teams to land multi-year data transformation deals
• Work with leaders to ensure the implementation of data offerings and solutions within your accounts
• Be a brand evangelist and thought leader
• Write White Papers and speak at industry and partner events about data transformation.
• Presenting case studies and cloud solutions at meetups, conferences and technology events 
• Identifying opportunities to access new markets, new services and new clients and carry out pre-sales activities
• Adapting priorities and business plans in response to changing market/client demands 
• Creating and implementing work plans on a global scale for assigned projects, programs, and/or clients against established operational objectives 
• Being a thought leader externally to clients and internally to our consultants 
• Supporting customers in troubleshooting issues in their test and/or production environments and identifying root cause and solutions.  

All you need is...

• Demonstrated ability to articulate a position on a topic to influence significant global decisions within our Cloud Business Unit and clients 
• A track record of facilitating the exploration of new ideas in the Realm of data and leading innovation among teams.
• Strong facilitation skills with demonstrated experience leading scoping and design sessions, sprint planning, and managing geographically dispersed teams
• You can determine what is best for the organisation overall and create an environment for others to do the same
• Thought Leadership and evangelism experience demonstrated by presenting at an industry forums and events 
• Delivered significant outcomes at security conscious and heavily regulated organisations
• Has achieved recognition within the profession for contributions in thought leadership 
• Proven knowledge of Enterprise Architecture frameworks (TOGAF) and the ability to define designs within this framework
• Strong scripting skills (Python, Spark, R, etc.) – working with deployment and data pipeline technologies such as Airflow, dbt, etc. 
• Proven knowledge of data observability, lineage, quality and alerting 
• Proven knowledge in data transformation design
• Proven knowledge in data pipeline design
• Expert level experience with Databricks
• Additional Cloud Data warehousing experience with Snowflake, Azure Data, Redshift and other
• Strong Database experience with Oracle, SQL Server, MySQL, PostgreSQL and other 
• In addition to your strong consulting and technical skills you will be a high EQ individual that understands the value and importance of quality team relationships. This role will suit anyone who is satisfied by achieving outcomes in an environment that is collaborative and professional, with a strong one team culture
• You create trust and operate with humility
• You move with urgency and focus and take responsibility seriously
• You think rigorously. You use reasoning from first principles to get to the right answer
• Excellent verbal, presentation and written communication skills including creating usable documentation and tools
• Ability to travel to different locations within US & Canada
• Ability to travel to different locations

Pay Range for this role ($175,000 - $215,000 base) will vary based on experience in addition to full health benefits, bonus, 401K match, ESPP, unlimited vacation and more. 

Why you will love this job:

You will be challenged to strategize, direct and build a high performance organization; have the opportunity to use your forward-thinking and critical thinking to carry out regional responsibility or global responsibility based on your job; coordinate driving penetration into the existing and new opportunities and accounts to grow the overall business.