We're building a team and looking for pioneers to join our mission to create a better future with data. The role is leading a team with a mix of high level technological and business consultancy for a variety of clients to drive change and improvement by using data. Understanding Data is expert level in data strategy & analytics FOR organizations that drive society.

In this role you will lead a team of (currently) 3 including yourself in consultancy projects at our clients. Your goal is to identify the macro level picture & planning and delegate.

To be succesful in this role you must have experience in 7 or more data related projects in the past 5 years, and have the desire to learn, and coach and mentor young talent.

• We are looking for someone with technical mastery on one or more data related topics and the ability to explain it.
• We are looking for someone that can see the bigger picture and break it up into smaller tangeable pieces that we can deliver on in the given timeframe.
• We are looking for a curious personality with relentless focus on client needs.
• We are looking for someone that wants to learn.
• We are looking for someone that fits our culture.

Please apply if you have demonstrated your technical skill and looking to transition to a managerial role, or already have experience in a managerial role. The team will expand and there are lots of opportunities to grow. If you are not able to delegate and give ownership to individuals, please do not apply.

Responsibilities

• You are responsible for managing, planning and delivering several consultancy projects in parallel.
• You listen and identify the client needs, and translate these to specific execution packages for our team members.
• You present and let your team members present high level content to high level stakeholders, including C-level.
• You architect the desired system and/or are technical lead for the execution. The system probably contains a combo of
• Data integration: integrate a variety of datasources with for example apache camel, apache pulsar or kafka, dlt, python, airbyte
• Analytics Engineering: model datawarehouses both batch and real-time with for example clickhouse and dbt or sqlmesh
• Business intelligence: build visuals that answer critical business questions in for example metabase, databricks or powerbi.
• ML / AI: use modern tools to predict or use llm’s to facilitate the insights hidden in unstructured data.
• You are not responsible for single handedly building the system, rather delegate subtasks to the team members and contribute where needed. Some technical work, e.g. modelling a complex integration or dimensional model will be needed.
• You report to the founder of understanding data in weekly sessions with team.
• After the first 6 months, you have the option to become a competence lead in one of the subfields: consultancy, platform, integration, analytics, business intelligence, ML, people, or domain-specific knowledge for one of our verticals

Learning opportunities

• Lead, learn, design and build data systems, for example using hypervisors, linux, distributed systems, data integration, analytics engineering and business intelligence in batch and real-time on k8s
• Translate business logic to available data, for example creating insights for a wholesale client with data warehousing using an azure, aws, gcp or on-premise architecture including apache kafka / pulsar, sqlmesh / dbt, clickhouse / databend and metabase / superset.
• Build state-of-the-art systems that solve client-specific challenges, for example building agentic LLM’s with RAG (retrieval-augmented generation) using ollama, local-ai and openwebui.
• You learn about several sectors at the same time, building domain knowledge as you go.
• There are many learning opportunities. We are experts, we expect you to be or become an expert.

Qualifications

• 3-5y experience
• Master level education in a quantitative field, e.g. engineering, or equivalent in experience
• Excellent communication skills
• Strong presentation skills
• C2 Dutch or willing to build a path towards C2 in the coming 6 months
• Experience with data-related programming languages and patterns, such as SQL and python and building analytics infrastructure
• Experience with complex data systems
• Desire to learn and become expert. This is critical. We give all the room for individuals to grow and learn.

Nice to have

• Experience in managing a small team
• Experience in listening
• Experience in failing and growing as a result (tell us your story :))

What we offer

• Amazing personal development
• Kick-ass company mission
• A highway of opportunities

Reach out to know more.

Industry

• Data Infrastructure and Analytics