Principal Consultant – Data Lead

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⚔️ Virginia – Remote

⚔️ Virginia – Remote

💵 $160k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

📊 Data Scientist

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ON Partners

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 2006

💼 Consulting

🏥 Healthcare

📦 Logistics

Consulting • Healthcare • Logistics

ON Partners is a pure-play retained executive search firm that specializes in building C-level and board leadership teams across various sectors. Since its inception in 2006, the company has focused on crafting tailored solutions for executive placements, ensuring a seamless experience for both clients and candidates. With expertise spanning technology, consumer products, professional services, life sciences, and industrial sectors, ON Partners is committed to innovative and diversity-focused recruiting practices.

📋 Description

• Serve as the senior data leader for Higher Education transformation engagements • Serve as the primary data and technical point of contact for client leadership and key stakeholders • Build trusted client relationships and ensure satisfaction, retention, and value realization • Oversee project scope, schedule, budget, risks, quality, and deliverables • Lead and mentor consultants, business analysts, developers, and other project team members • Facilitate executive and working-team discussions, resolve issues, and align delivery with client objectives • Identify risks, dependencies, and decisions requiring leadership attention • Translate technical delivery activities into business outcomes and executive communication • Advise on Ascend CRM data migration, conversion, reconciliation, integration, and data quality strategies • Partner with Advancement teams to translate business requirements into data and technical solutions • Write and troubleshoot complex SQL queries • Analyze datasets and support mapping, migration, cleansing, normalization, deduplication, transformation, and integration troubleshooting • Develop data strategies, architectures, roadmaps, governance frameworks, standards, definitions, ownership structures, and quality controls • Design integration architectures and blueprints, map end-to-end data flows, and define integration patterns and technical requirements • Provide technical leadership across design, development, testing, deployment, and stabilization • Analyze integration failures, logs, data issues, and system errors; coordinate root-cause analysis and incident resolution • Establish integration standards, security requirements, monitoring practices, and documentation expectations • Advise on APIs, batch/file processing, ETL/ELT, event-driven, real-time, and near-real-time integrations • Provide guidance on MuleSoft, Boomi, Informatica, Workato, Azure, AWS, and similar technologies

🎯 Requirements

• Significant consulting experience leading complex enterprise data initiatives • Experience within Higher Education, preferably Advancement, fundraising, alumni relations, or constituent data • Experience with Ascend CRM strongly preferred • Strong hands-on SQL development capabilities • Experience with data migration, source-to-target mapping, transformation, data quality, integration, and reconciliation • Demonstrated ability to lead client engagements and communicate effectively with executive stakeholders • Experience leading cross-functional technical and functional teams • Strong understanding of enterprise data architecture, data governance, integration architecture, and data management principles • Experience designing or advising on APIs, ETL/ELT, batch, real-time, and event-driven integration patterns • Ability to move between executive strategy discussions and detailed technical problem solving • Excellent written, verbal, presentation, and facilitation skills • Demonstrated ability to build trusted advisor relationships with clients • Experience supporting sales and business development • Flexibility to travel periodically based on business and client needs

🏖️ Benefits

• Competitive health, dental, and vision coverage • HSA and FSA accounts • Life and disability insurance • Fertility and family planning benefits • Employee assistance and discount programs • 11 paid federal holidays • Flexible unlimited time off (UTO) • Generous 401(k) matching with immediate vesting • Flexible career paths providing advancement, mobility, and flexibility • Flexible work environment • Career growth opportunities • Annual discretionary bonus • Healthy, inclusive environment valuing unique experiences