Data Engineering Consulting Practice Lead
Job Description
Description
Description
Badal by TELUS Business is a high-impact Google Cloud consulting team acquired by TELUS Communications in 2024. We partner with leading enterprises across banking, telco, retail, energy and other sectors to solve their most complex business challenges using the power of cloud-native technology. We lead digital transformation across data, analytics, AI/ML, and security domains—raising the bar at every engagement.
Our team and what we’ll accomplish together
You’ll join the Badal by TELUS leadership team as the Head of our Data Engineering Practice—a strategic pillar of the business. This role blends technical depth with business leadership and is ideal for someone excited to shape offerings, scale a high-performing team, and drive commercial impact across the data engineering lifecycle.
You will lead solution development, talent growth, and go-to-market execution across four focus areas:
- Data Platform Engineering
- Modern Data Stack
- Data Migration
- Applied Intelligence
This is your opportunity to define what great looks like in cloud and data consulting.
How you’ll be successful:
As the Director of Business Development and Head of our Data Engineering Practice, you’ll define and scale our offerings across Data Platform Engineering; the Modern Data Stack, Applied Intelligence, and Data Migration. You will lead high-impact client engagements from pre-sales through delivery, acting as both a technical authority and executive sponsor. Your leadership will drive innovation, delivery excellence, and team growth, while ensuring our solutions consistently exceed client expectations. Collaborating closely with sales, engineering, PMO and leadership, you will turn client challenges into scalable services—and own the practice’s performance, strategy, and capacity planning.
You’ll also provide:
- Thought leadership on data architecture, ML/AI, Cloud and modern ELT patterns
- Technical strategy for client solutions leveraging GCP, Snowflake, dbt, Kafka, and more
- People leadership by coaching high-performing technical teams in a consulting context
- Financial acumen, including management of P&L
- Sales/professional services outreach, including participation in or leading pre-sales activities and opportunity initiation
- Innovation by continuously evolving practice capabilities to stay ahead of market needs
- Standards & governance by embedding responsible AI, data privacy, lineage, and governance into solutions
- Execution excellence with a relentless focus on value, quality, and speed in delivery
Qualifications
You’re the missing piece of the puzzle:
You are likely in a similar engineering & business leadership position today, with many of the following talents and experience points:
- You bring several years of experience in data engineering or software development, with at least 3 years in a consulting leadership role
- You have effectively managed P&L, grown practices and supported go-to-market execution
- You have experience working within consulting or professional services teams, delivering enterprise solution
- You have done business development,
Company
Vector Institute
Location
, ON, Canada
Country
Canada
Salary
100.000
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