Senior Technical Consultant, Data

Expectations:

Senior Technical Consultants are expected to consistently demonstrate strong technical execution, structured thinking, consultative behavior, ownership, proactive communication, and emerging technical leadership. They should independently drive complex technical work while helping less-experienced team members succeed and maintaining alignment with the broader architecture and delivery strategy.

Leadership and Ownership

• Take end-to-end ownership of assigned technical workstreams and outcomes, not just individual development tasks.

• Plan and prioritize technical work, anticipate dependencies, identify risks early, and drive routine next steps without requiring step-by-step direction.

• Bring problems with analysis, options, and a recommended path forward; escalate early when decisions or risks exceed workstream authority.

• Maintain accountability for the quality, completeness, timeliness, and production readiness of technical deliverables within assigned scope.

Consulting and Client Effectiveness

• Clearly define technical problems, impacts, assumptions, constraints, and success criteria before moving into execution.

• Connect technical decisions to client business objectives, operational outcomes, delivery feasibility, and long-term maintainability.

• Communicate in a structured, concise, audience-appropriate manner and participate confidently in client-facing workshops and technical decision-making.

• Provide insights and recommendations rather than only status updates or technical findings.

Technical Excellence

• Demonstrate deep hands-on capability in one or more modern data, cloud, analytics, AI, governance, or integration disciplines and sufficient breadth to understand adjacent components.

• Design and implement solutions that are scalable, secure, testable, maintainable, observable, performant, and supportable.

• Apply architecture and engineering standards consistently and use design/code reviews to improve quality across the team.

• Balance technical quality with delivery constraints, client priorities, implementation effort, and operational realities.

Team Leadership and Practice Contribution

• Provide clear technical guidance, constructive peer review, and practical coaching to less-experienced technical consultants.

• Help teams operate with ownership, structured problem solving, engineering discipline, and proactive communication.

• Contribute reusable assets and lessons learned that improve delivery quality, scalability, and consistency across the practice.

• Demonstrate readiness for progression by increasingly shaping technical direction while recognizing that enterprise architecture governance and overall technical accountability sit with the Principal Technical Consultant.

Roles and Responsibilities:

Technical Delivery and Workstream Leadership

• Own and lead complex technical workstreams or major solution components from discovery and design through build, test, deployment, and stabilization.

• Lead technical working sessions, design discussions, demonstrations, troubleshooting sessions, and implementation planning with client and AHEAD teams.

• Translate business requirements, source-system knowledge, architecture direction, and acceptance criteria into practical, scalable, secure, and maintainable technical solutions.

• Design, build, operationalize, secure, monitor, and optimize modern data solutions, including ingestion, transformation, orchestration, curated data layers, integrations, APIs, semantic artifacts, and data products.

• Develop robust automated pipelines for structured and unstructured data using batch, streaming, and cloud-native patterns as appropriate.

• Modernize legacy SQL, ETL/ELT, data warehouse, data lake, integration, and orchestration workloads; support dependency mapping, reverse engineering, migration, cutover, and stabilization.