Senior Director - Advanced Analytics

Role overview Lead the people, technical strategy, delivery standards, and commercial growth of an advanced analytics practice. The role sets direction across business intelligence, semantic models, self-service and embedded analytics, conversational experiences, decision support, and workflow automation. It combines executive-level client consulting with ownership of practice growth, delivery outcomes, and team development.

Responsibilities - Lead managers and teams through coaching, feedback, hiring, performance processes, development plans, and early attention to workload or staffing risks. - Set analytics architecture and experience standards across Power BI, Microsoft Fabric, Databricks, Azure AI, and related platforms. - Define reference architectures and practices for data platforms, semantic layers, analytics experiences, governance, security, privacy, responsible AI, monitoring, and human oversight. - Guide architecture reviews and delivery planning, balancing value, cost, speed, adoption, and long-term platform health. - Advise executives on analytics strategy, modernization, AI adoption, investment choices, roadmaps, and outcomes. - Build offerings and market demand with sales, account, marketing, and alliance partners; lead strategic pursuits and turn successful work into reusable proof points.

Requirements - 15+ years in analytics, BI, data products, decision intelligence, or a related field, including sustained practice leadership. - 12+ years delivering enterprise cloud, data, analytics, AI, modernization, or platform work, and 7+ years leading architecture, engineering, or multi-team delivery. - Deep expertise in modern analytics architecture, including Power BI, Microsoft Fabric, Databricks, Azure data services, semantic or metrics layers, and self-service patterns. - Experience growing a consulting practice or portfolio, with accountability for offerings, pipeline, bookings, revenue, margin, utilization, partnerships, and pursuits. - Strong executive communication, consulting judgment, stakeholder management, and ability to lead hybrid teams in complex organizations. - Bachelor’s degree in a related field preferred; relevant Azure, Fabric, Power BI, or Databricks certifications are also preferred.

Nice to have Experience with multiple cloud vendors or platforms such as Snowflake, and with scaling analytics offerings that include embedded or conversational analytics, decision support, agents, or workflow automation. Work authorization sponsorship is unavailable for this position.