Senior Director Data Engineering

Senior Director, Data Engineering - Professional Services - Consulting (Brazil)

About phData

phData is an AI-forward engineering company focused on getting enterprise data and AI workloads in production for some of the largest and most well-known companies in the world.

We specialize in the most complex data, machine learning, and AI problems that only the best engineers can solve. From the top down, we’re built and run by hardcore data, ML, and AI engineers.

• Founders and leadership teams wrote books on databases and built key open-source tools, including Kafka, Parquet, Hive, and more.
• We are a partner to major cloud data platforms like Snowflake (6X POTY), AWS, Azure, GCP, Fivetran, dbt, OpenAI, Anthropic, and more.
• We have nearly 700 employees operating across 3 continents, and we’re growing quickly.
• We build AI and automation tools that no other consulting company has, enabling us to do more with smaller teams and without sacrificing quality.
• We are not staff aug. We are a premium provider of data and AI services and our clients pay to work with the best teams.

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About the Role

This person will act as the technical leader for phData’s most strategic clients. This is among the most challenging, highest-profile, and highest-value roles in all of phData.

Why is this one of the most challenging? This person must have a versatile arsenal of skills, technical knowledge, and communication styles. It’s more than saying the right thing. The Technical Account Lead must also be able to write code, stay up to date with the latest developments in technology, and lead and motivate a team to respond to the challenges and high expectations of our clients.

If our clients could solve these problems themselves, they would. Instead, they hire phData. We see ourselves as the client’s special forces and do what it takes to complete the mission. The Technical Account Lead doesn’t just get into the weeds—they study the entire root system.

This person needs to proactively give feedback internally and externally. They need to make sure we have the right people and the best teams. They will interface at the executive level, tackling uncomfortable conversations head-on and through a lens of respect, ownership, and integrity.

Our ultimate goal is to make our clients say “wow”. The ultimate measure of success for a Technical Account Lead is when a client chooses to extend projects with us and expand into new projects and workloads with us. The Technical Account Lead is personally accountable for converting highly strategic first-time engagements into multi-year partnerships, and growing strategic clients into $10M+ in annual value.

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