Manager, Data + AI

Valorem Reply is an award-winning digital transformation firm focused on delivering data-driven enterprise, IT modernization, customer experience, product transformation and digital workplace. Through the expertise of their people and power of Microsoft technologies, they provide hyper-scale and agile delivery of unique digital business services, strategic business models and design-led user experiences.  Their innovative strategies and solutions securely and rapidly transform the way their clients do business. 
At Valorem Reply, we are hiring a Manager for the Data & AI team. The person will mainly focus on building modern data platforms using Microsoft cloud technologies and Databricks for our customers. Consulting with senior technical leaders on strategy is crucial. Experience with ML/AI is strongly preferred but not required. The candidate will have previous manager experience and actively work alongside our delivery teams. 
As a technical leader, the person will assist with setting the technical direction of the practice and keep up to date with current trends in data-focused technology. The ideal candidate will have strong communication skills and serve as a trusted partner to our customers. This is an exciting role for people that like collaborating across a team, enjoying flexibility/autonomy in completing work, and solving challenging problems.

Responsibilities

• Business development: Assist in new business development and technical sales through development of proposals, estimation, statements of work, and requests for proposals
• Project delivery: Contributing to and overseeing the successful delivery of data platform, analytics, and data science projects while liaising with clients to meet their needs
• Team management: Providing leadership, coaching, and mentorship to team members and supporting their professional development
• Thought leadership: Staying current on latest trends and technologies, while sharing expertise with colleagues, clients, and industry peers through speaking engagements, publications, and workshops
• Knowledge sharing: Technical evangelism, provide training, and establishing a learning culture within the team

Minimum Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related field
• 12 years of industry experience, with 4 most recent years as a hands-on manager leading a team on enterprise scale data platform projects
• Expertise with Microsoft Azure infrastructure and data resources, including Fabric, Azure Data Factory, Synapse Data Analytics, Power BI, Azure SQL, Azure Cosmos DB, and Azure Database for PostgreSQL
• Deep expertise with Databricks, specifically the ability to design enterprise-level strategy and architecture including Unity Catalog, data warehousing, data sharing, and Mosaic AI
• Experience setting end-to-end modern data platforms in Azure including architecture/design, ingestion, storage strategies, analytics & reporting, Apache Spark, and networking requirements
• Experience establishing data management strategy for customers, including data governance, data security, master data management, and familiarity with different industry security requirements
• Ability to create working environments for data engineers and scientists, and general knowledge of ML, AI, LLMs, and MLOps
• Excellent communication skills, ability to clearly explain concepts to teammates and customers, and quickly learn new concepts and technologies

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in a consulting role working directly with customers
• Knowledge and familiarity with Microsoft Purview
• DevOps for data, GitHub, automated testing, and working with containers (AKS, Docker, registries, etc.)
• Broad experience with data/reporting tools, architectures, cloud vendors, and data/AI concepts other than Microsoft

About Reply
Reply specializes in the design and implementation of solutions based on new communication channels and digital media. Reply is a network of highly specialized companies supporting global industrial groups operating in the telecom and media, industry and services, banking, insurance and public administration sectors in the definition and development of business models enabled for the new paradigms of AI, cloud computing, digital media and the Internet of Things. Reply services include Consulting, System Integration and Digital Services.
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