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Caylent is an AI-first cloud services company that helps organizations turn ambitious ideas into meaningful business impact. As an AWS Premier Tier Services Partner and a charter member of Anthropic’s Claude Partner Network, we combine deep expertise in AWS, artificial intelligence, and Anthropic’s Claude platform to help customers modernize their technology, build intelligent products, and move AI from experimentation into production. Our capabilities span generative and agentic AI, cloud migration and modernization, cloud-native application development, data and analytics, DevOps, managed services, security and compliance, and customer experience transformation. At Caylent, our people always come first. We are a fully remote global company with employees in Canada, the United States and Latin America. We celebrate the culture of each of our team members and foster a community of technological curiosity. Come talk to us to learn more about what it means to be a Caylien! The Role The Data Practice Director is a senior leadership role within Caylent's Cloud Data Engineering (CDE) practice, reporting directly to the Data Practice Leader. This person is responsible for operationalizing the practice strategy, leading a team of data professionals, and owning delivery excellence across a portfolio of client engagements. They are the connective tissue between strategic direction and day-to-day execution, ensuring the practice delivers consistent, high-quality outcomes while scaling to meet growth targets. Your Assignment Practice Operations and Delivery Own end-to-end delivery oversight for a portfolio of data engineering and analytics engagements, ensuring on-time, on-budget, and high-quality outcomes. Drive operational rigor across the practice including utilization management, staffing coordination, margin tracking, and engagement health reviews. Develop and enforce delivery standards, reusable frameworks, and best practices that enable consistent, scalable execution across the team. Serve as an escalation point for active engagements, helping resolve technical blockers, scope issues, and client concerns in partnership with delivery leads. Partner with the Practice Leader to translate the strategic roadmap into executable quarterly priorities and team-level OKRs. Team Leadership and Development Directly lead and develop a team of data engineers, architects, and analytics professionals across the practice. Set clear performance expectations, conduct regular reviews, and provide ongoing coaching to build a high-performing, engaged team. Partner with recruiting and workforce planning to identify talent gaps, support hiring decisions, and onboard new team members effectively. Foster a culture of ownership, continuous learning, and technical excellence across a globally distributed team. Identify and develop emerging leaders within the practice, creating growth pathways aligned to practice needs. Client Engagement Build trusted advisor relationships with key client stakeholders, acting as a senior point of contact for delivery and strategic guidance. Partner with the sales and GTM teams to support business development activities including scoping, proposal development, and technical solutioning for new and existing accounts. Identify and pursue expansion opportunities within active client engagements, surfacing new use cases and service offerings that align with client needs. Represent Caylent with credibility and professionalism in client-facing conversations at the director and VP level. Practice Growth and Enablement Collaborate with the Practice Leader on go-to-market positioning, service offering development, and internal capability building. Contribute to thought leadership content including whitepapers, webinars, and conference presentations that elevate the practice's external profile. Stay current on trends in the modern data ecosystem and work w