Practice Head - Security Big Data Lake Solutions

We are looking for energetic, curious and self-driven leader to drive the security big data lake solution portfolio using open source solutions such as ELK / Hadoop as well as licenses stacks such as Hortonworks/Cloudera

This position focuses on consulting and delivering advanced data management & analytical solutions in the context of Cyber Security with focus on big data technologies and hybrid data management - such as developing a security big data lake and advance analytics for our customers.

The role involves complete accountability for solution evangelization, development and driving go-to-market strategies and driving them and finally supporting the execution of the engagements.

In this role you will be responsible for:

- Practice growth and identify new growth segments of the business.

- Drive practice strategy and roadmap in collaboration with marketing team, senior members of the team and executive team.

- Constantly explore opportunities to solve challenging security problems using machine learning, data science capabilities to help drive actionable insights and anomaly detection solutions.

- Participate in customer facing situations and user conferences as a practice expert, and work with sales team to provide pre-sales support activities such as RFP response, doing practice use case demonstrations, engaging with sales and participating in the customer calls to sell solutions

- Demonstrate flexibility and the ability to adapt to change

- Create industry partnerships and work with partners in co-marketing and co-sales activities.

- Hire best talent and retain the good talent.

- Be responsible for practice profit and loss including optimizing the bench resources.

Key skills:

- Fast learner, detail oriented and must enjoy fast paced work environments 12 years of experience in practice management, with at least 5 years in the Big Data & Analytics industry.

- Proven experience in the big data analytics industry including the fields of Data Science, Machine learning, and API.

- Strong track record of leading a cross-functional team to deliver a complex solution.

- To excel in the role, the candidate must combine deep design thinking, customer empathy, market understanding, data-driven execution and cross-functional collaboration.

- The ideal candidate possesses a unique blend of business and technical savvy, strategic thinking and tactical execution.

- Must understand the importance of P&L and bench management.

- Have at least 3 years of experience in managing a practice P&L and bench management.

- The ideal candidate must have proven experience in working with multiple technologies such as JAVA, Python, R, and Scala. HDP, CDH, Spark, Kafka, Flume, nifi

- Building data lakes and data life-cycle management including managing data security. Must have experience in at least one business domain.

- Domestic and international travel (30%) is required.