Data Delivery & Practice Senior Manager / Director

Singtel

  • Singapore
  • Permanent
  • Full-time
  • 2 months ago
NCS is a leading technology services firm that operates across the Asia Pacific region in over 20 cities, providing consulting, digital services, technology solutions, and more. We believe in harnessing the power of technology to achieve extraordinary things, creating lasting value and impact for our communities, partners, and people. Our diverse workforce of 13,000 has delivered large-scale, mission-critical, and multi-platform projects for governments and enterprises in Singapore and the APAC region.As a Data Delivery & Practice Senior Manager / Director, you will lead a team to oversee the implementation of data analytics strategy for a client organisation, build capabilities and develop new service offerings.What will you do?
  • Client-facing interaction including providing analyses, recommendations, presentations and advice to clients
  • Lead the day-to-day activities of the delivery teams through the developing, establishing and maintaining project management standards and procedures.
  • Adapts existing methods and procedures to create possible alternative solutions to moderately complex problems
  • Lead interdisciplinary teams that combine technical, business and data science competencies that deliver work in waterfall or agile software development lifecycle methodologies
  • Understands the strategic direction set by senior management as it relates to team goals
  • Uses considerable judgment to determine solution and seeks guidance on complex problems
  • Manage the timely reporting of data analysis outcomes and effectively communicates findings, insights and recommendations to business leaders using data metrics on top of standard project management measures such as data quality and model accuracy
  • Oversee team management including budgets, forecasting, work allocations and staffing
  • Drive presales initiatives, develop solutions and engage with customer to convert the opportunities
  • Drive data delivery capability building and practice leadership including data engineering, data platform management, project / service delivery
  • Drive effective performance management practices within the department in accordance with organisation policies and procedures
The ideal candidate should possess:
  • More than 10 years of relevant experience including :
  • at least 2 years of experience leading an Analytics consulting team with experience with leading one or more MNCs through the journey to becoming a datadriven organization;
  • and / or at least 5 years of experience implementing a broad range of Analytics / Business Intelligence projects such as Data Engineering, Data Governance and Management; visualizing KPIs on business dashboards or applying advanced analytics/ data science techniques to realize business values
  • Hands-on experience with one or more of the following Analytics technology stacks as well as familiarity with a broad range of solutions for visualization, advanced analytics, data ingestion/transformation, storage and hosting and willingness to learn new ones on the job.
  • Data Management & Storage: Informatica, Microsoft SQL Server, Big Data Platform, Talend, Cloudera, SAS
  • Data Visualisation: Tableau, Qlik, Microsoft PowerBI, Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise, IBM Cognos, MicroStrategy, SAS etc
  • Statistical/Data Science Tools: SPSS, R, Python, Anaconda distributions, Jupyter
  • Experience working with Singaporean clients, the Singapore government, familiarity with GDPR in Europe, PDPA in Singapore will be an advantage
  • Project management certifications such as PMP, Agile, ITIL
  • Bachelor's Degree in related field; strong preference for fields of study in the engineering, computer science, statistics or analytics
We are driven by our AEIOU beliefs—Adventure, Excellence, Integrity, Ownership, and Unity—and we seek individuals who embody these values in both their professional and personal lives. We are committed to our Impact: Valuing our clients, Growing our people, and Creating our future.Together, we make the extraordinary happen.Learn more about us at ncs.co and visit our LinkedIn career site.

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