Principal Consultant Technology Job in Acrotrend Solutions

Role: Principal Consultant
Location: Anywhere in the world but available to work in the UK time zone
Travel: Wherever the client is!
Experience: 12+ Years
Remuneration: Commensurate with your experience

Acrotrend is a customer analytics consulting firm that specialises in supporting businesses to maximise the potential of the digital world. We take you from data to insight to action. We combine curiosity, questions and our love of data with:
Best of breed customer analytics technology
Machine learning and data science
Packaged solution accelerators
In 2021 Acrotrend was awarded silver rating in the Financial Times UK s Leading Management Consultancies List.
Check out our website (www.acrotrend.com) to understand what we do and how we work
We are seeking a smart, diligent, methodical consultant who will be an expert in delivering our consulting service offerings to clients.

What you ll do
On-board Acrotrend s reference architecture built for cloud platforms like AWS/Azure, Snowflake, Talend and other Data Engineering technologies
Lead the initial consulting assignments specifically pre-sales journey with the client to build the confidence in the solution offered. Lead the demos and pre-sales calls along with sales teams
Create reusable and repeatable assets with demo-able collaterals and accelerators to position with various clients and prospects. Working with sales and pre-sales teams to come up with ideas to position these collaterals and accelerators.
Architect, design & build modern data warehouse and data lakes
Envision, design & build data science and Machine Learning applications and use cases especially around customer analytics
Drive client presentations to senior stakeholders as the technology authority
Run PoCs and PoTs with clients in a short span of time like 1-2 weeks. Create quick demo-able solutions with relevant data from various industries, open data and other data sets available within Acrotrend environments.
Work in small and medium sized fast paced environments and project teams. Lead these teams and engagements to come up with demo-able solutions
Help the clients in selecting technology architecture and tools to implement the best fit solution
Bring in thought leadership around modern technology and ways of working
Collaborate with Acrotrend SME s and Delivery teams to build Proof of Concepts, Demos, and working propositions to take to market. Positioning creative solutions, relevant and contextual for problem statements of the existing clients and prospects
Participate in pre-sales activities including proposal RFP s, workshops, presentations and solution design for SOW s

You ll do it using
Excellent knowledge of data warehousing technologies and data modelling concepts (e.g. Snowflake, Amazon Redshift, Azure Synapse)
Hands-on experience with cloud-based analytics software like Snowflake, AWS Data lakes, ETL and data pipeline tools based on like Talend, Azure (ADF) and AWS (Glue), PySpark
Good understanding of marketing automation and CRM architecture & functionality (e.g. Salesforce) to integrate into data warehouse and data lakes
Hands-On experience in integration and application architectures for medium to large-scale enterprises (e.g. Data pipelines, APIs, Microservices)
Working knowledge and architectural understanding of enterprise business intelligence tools (e.g. Power BI, Looker, Tableau)
Variety of databases and programming languages, e.g. PostgreSQL, NoSQL, GraphDB, Java, R, Python, C#
Experience on Data Quality and MDM concepts
Hands-on experience of developing and managing solution within Agile/Scrum
Experience or knowledge of DevOps and DataOps
Acumen for stakeholder management at all levels; both internally and externally
Certifications in various technologies from the Acrotrend reference architecture
A good appreciation of the cost drivers in systems delivery and operations and the commercial consequences of the technical decisions

You ll fit in by
Embodying the values of Acrotrend
Thinking like an owner (Founder s Mindset)
Communicating with honesty, candour, and respect
Being resourceful and creative
Acting with empathy

You ll love it because
You will have the opportunity to work in a successful, fast-moving mission-driven company
You will have autonomy and growth opportunities
You will collaborate with other brilliant minds
You will always be surrounded by new challenges from clients, consultants and technology