Principal Research Director, Data and Analytics

Position Purpose

Are you passionate about developing new insights into how to deliver better IT services and helping organizations find better ways of working? Do you want to work for a rapidly growing company that understands the importance of supporting employees through flexibility, inclusiveness, learning & development, options for internal career mobility, measurement of the Employee Experience, building strong relationships? If so, you could be Info-Tech’s next Director on the Applications Research team.

As a Principal Research Director (Data and Analytics), you create and deliver client-driven, project-based, practical research and advisory services that helps Info-Tech Members drive measurable results in their organizations. In this role, your primary focus is within the domain of Data & Analytics and related domains (ex. AI), with potential for some cross-over into Enterprise Architecture

What you will do, includes, but not limited to:

Research (Primary)

• Interviewing Subject Matter Experts, finding and reading relevant literature in your assigned topic, and using the information gathered to generate insights.
• Cultivating insights into a framework or methodology and building supporting tools and resources for publish on our website and use by Info-Tech Members.
• Keep a pulse on what’s happening in the industry around your areas of expertise including upcoming trends and best practices, in part, to assist in your contribution of ideas to the research agenda.  

Advisory Calls with Clients (Secondary)

• Leading calls with Members to provide an overview of Info-Tech’s published research.
• Listening to the information provided by Members and recommending ways they can use the research to work through a challenge or project.
• Assist to scope member concerns and direct them to relevant research as well as identify gaps in research products.

Facilitate Workshops

• Using Info-Tech’s published research to facilitate a series of activities with Members and their teams.
• Throughout the workshop, collecting activity outputs from participants and compiling them into a polished final deliverable for the Member at the end of the engagement.

Cross-Departmental Collaboration & Support

• Provide subject matter expertise to Sales, Workshop Delivery, Consulting, Public Relations & Marketing teams as needed. 
• Design and build of high-quality keynote/other presentations, and successful delivery of presentations as needed.

To be successful, you will need:

 Education and Experience

• Undergraduate degree required (business or technology preferred). An MA, MBA, or MSc beneficial.
• Practical experience (5-10+ years) working in Data & Analytics, or similar domain (Infrastructure, Applications and Product Delivery, Data, Integration, Security), with exposure to Enterprise Architecture being valuable
• Preference will be given to candidates that have experience delivering / working with:
  • Modern Data platforms (AWS, Google, MSFT, Databricks, Snowflake),
  • Data Governance and Data Governance tools (Alation, Collibra, MSFT Purview or similar),
  • Data Warehousing/Lake (Redshift, S3 Buckets, Synapse),
  • ETL and Data Engineering (Data Factory, AWS Glue, etc),
  • Consumer-based tools: BI Tools (PowerBI, Tableau, ThoughtSpot etc.) or ML Delivery (Vertex, Tensorflow, Azure AutoML, Sagemaker).
• Given the research that we write combined with our members’ needs, the following experience will be an asset:
  • Managing cost center and budgets for a Data Team,
  • Managing Exec Committee's and Board presenting,
  • Ability to demonstrate robust prioritization based on tangible goals/deliverables,
  • Building and balancing a team of technical experts with business functional experts
  • Has a Service mindset (either product experience, data or otherwise)
  • Ability to build service catalogues and run to SLAs
  • History of gaining and maintaining trusted advisor status with management.
• While the role is not a people management role, experience in leading teams is highly desired given the nature of advisory services offered.
• Presentation and facilitation experience demonstrated through prior client-facing engagements important.
• Travel Requirement: Must be flexible and have ability to travel periodically to deliver workshops onsite at client locations both within and outside of North America.
• Visa Requirement: Must be eligible to obtain appropriate work Visa for cross-border work within North America and globally. 
• Work Hours Requirements: Must be available for after-hours work periodically to service APAC clients.

 Skills & Attributes

• Inclusion
• Client Interaction and Facilitation
• Event Speaking
• Knowledge Application, Problem Solving & Decision Making
• Project Management
• Writing Ability
• Business Development
• Research
• Managing Through Change & Uncertainty
• Dynamic Learning Mindset

Info-Tech Research Group of companies is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity and inclusion and does not discriminate on the basis of any legally protected status or characteristic including Minority/Female/Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity/Disability/Veteran and are pleased to consider all qualified applicants. To that end, upon request, ITRG will ensure, to the extent possible, that accommodation be made available to applicants throughout the recruitment and hiring process.