USA Remote (Global) Full-time USD 190,000 – 250,000 / year

Caylent is hiring a Data Practice Director

Responsibilities

  • Oversee full lifecycle delivery of multiple data engineering and analytics projects, ensuring adherence to timelines, budgets, and quality benchmarks
  • Enforce operational discipline through utilization tracking, staffing alignment, margin oversight, and regular engagement reviews
  • Establish and maintain delivery standards, reusable frameworks, and best practices to ensure consistent and scalable project execution
  • Act as primary escalation contact for active projects, resolving technical challenges, scope deviations, and client issues alongside delivery leads
  • Collaborate with leadership to convert strategic goals into actionable quarterly objectives and team-level OKRs
  • Directly manage and grow a team of data engineers, architects, and analytics specialists across the practice
  • Define performance expectations, conduct evaluations, and deliver continuous coaching to cultivate a high-achieving team
  • Work with recruiting and workforce planning to identify skill gaps, guide hiring, and integrate new hires effectively
  • Promote a culture of accountability, technical mastery, and ongoing development within a globally distributed team
  • Identify and nurture future leaders, aligning career development with organizational needs
  • Build and maintain trusted advisor relationships with key client stakeholders at senior levels
  • Support sales and go-to-market efforts by contributing to scoping, proposals, and technical solution design for new and existing clients
  • Uncover expansion opportunities within current engagements by identifying new use cases and relevant service offerings
  • Represent the organization professionally in client discussions at director and VP levels
  • Partner with leadership on market positioning, service development, and internal capability enhancement
  • Develop thought leadership through whitepapers, webinars, and speaking engagements to strengthen external visibility
  • Stay informed on advancements in the modern data landscape and guide the team in integrating relevant innovations
  • Contribute to the creation of practice-owned intellectual property such as accelerators, reference architectures, and reusable components

Benefits

  • Medical insurance coverage for employees and eligible dependents
  • 401k plan with 4% company match and immediate vesting
  • Competitive phantom equity program
  • Company-provided laptop
  • Dental and vision insurance options
  • Term disability and life insurance
  • Flexible Spending Account (FSA) availability
  • Stipend for equipment and office setup
  • Annual allowance for learning and professional development
  • Unlimited paid time off policy
  • 10 paid company holidays annually

Compensation

Base salary range of $190,000 - $250,000 annually, with additional compensation components including bonuses, commissions, equity, and performance-based incentives

Work Arrangement

Not specified

Base Salary Range

The expected base salary range for this position is $190,000 - $250,000 per year, commensurate with experience and qualifications

Additional Compensation Components

In addition to the base salary, the compensation package may include bonuses, commissions, equity, and other incentives. The specific components will vary depending on the role and individual and/or company performance

Not specified

About company
Caylent

Caylent is a next-generation cloud services company that helps organizations adapt with speed and drive intelligent growth by leveraging AI and AWS expertise.

As an AWS Premier Tier Services Partner, Caylent delivers innovative, scalable, and secure cloud solutions tailored to business needs, with deep collaboration across AWS technologies.

The company specializes in cloud migration, modernization, data analytics, AI and MLOps, application development, and managed services, helping enterprises transform legacy systems and accelerate innovation.

Through its Caylent Accelerate™ portfolio, the company uses an agentic, AI-powered delivery approach to modernize applications, databases, and infrastructure efficiently and at scale.

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Department Cloud Data Engineering (CDE) practice
Posted 2 hours ago