Exavalu
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exavalu.com
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About Exavalu
Founded in 2018 and headquartered in Newport Beach, California, Exavalu is built by former CIOs, CXOs, and Big 5 consulting leaders. We specialize in delivering enterprise-scale digital transformation solutions across Insurance, Banking & Financial Services, and Healthcare industries.
With delivery centers across India, Canada and the US, Exavalu is recognized for its agile culture, innovation mindset, and employee-first environment. We are committed to building modern, scalable, and business-driven technology solutions for global enterprise clients.
Why Exavalu?
• Opportunity to work with global enterprise customers
• Exposure to modern technology stacks and enterprise transformation projects
• Strong learning, growth, and innovation-driven culture
• Collaborative engineering environment with high-impact project exposure
Position: Data & Analytics Practice Leader
Experience: 18 years -28 years
Location: India
Employment Type: Full-Time
Role Overview
We are looking for an experienced and strategic Data & Analytics Practice Leader to lead and grow our Data & Analytics practice. The ideal candidate will have a strong blend of technology leadership, business development, delivery excellence, client relationship management, and practice-building experience.
The role requires a proven leader who can define the practice vision, drive revenue growth, build high-performing teams, develop strategic client relationships, and deliver innovative data-driven solutions aligned with business objectives.
Key Responsibilities
1. Practice Leadership & Strategy
- Define and execute the overall vision, strategy, and growth roadmap for the Data & Analytics practice.
- Build and scale the practice by identifying emerging market opportunities, industry trends, and new service offerings.
- Establish the practice's value proposition, go-to-market strategy, and competitive positioning.
- Drive operational excellence, profitability, revenue growth, and utilization across the practice.
2. Business Development & Client Engagement
- Partner with sales and business development teams to identify, qualify, and pursue new business opportunities.
- Lead client conversations, executive-level discussions, solution presentations, and strategic engagements.
- Drive large deal pursuits, proposals, RFP/RFI responses, and solution estimations.
- Build and maintain strong relationships with key clients and strategic partners.
- Identify opportunities for account expansion, cross-selling, and upselling Data & Analytics services.
3. Data & Analytics Technical Leadership
- Provide strategic and technical direction across Data Engineering, Data Warehousing, Business Intelligence, Advanced Analytics, and AI/ML initiatives.
- Drive the adoption of modern data platforms and cloud ecosystems, including AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud.
- Oversee data architecture, data integration, data modernization, and enterprise data platform implementations.
- Promote best practices in data governance, data quality, security, metadata management, and regulatory compliance.
- Evaluate emerging technologies and incorporate relevant innovations into the practice's service portfolio.
4. Delivery Excellence
- Oversee end-to-end delivery of complex data and analytics engagements across multiple clients and projects.
- Ensure delivery quality, timelines, budgets, customer satisfaction, and business outcomes.
- Establish delivery governance, performance metrics, risk management, and continuous improvement frameworks.
- Work closely with delivery leaders to ensure effective resource planning, project execution, and operational efficiency.
5. Team Building & Leadership
- Build, mentor, and lead a high-performing team of data architects, engineers, analytics professionals, and delivery leaders.
- Develop leadership capabilities, succession plans, and technical competency frameworks.
- Drive recruitment, talent development, retention, and workforce planning.
- Foster a culture of innovation, collaboration, accountability, and continuous learning.
6. Innovation & Market Development
- Drive the development of reusable frameworks, accelerators, industry solutions, and intellectual property.
- Identify opportunities to integrate Generative AI, advanced analytics, and intelligent automation into data solutions.
- Collaborate with technology partners and hyperscalers to strengthen capabilities and market presence.
- Represent the organization in client forums, industry events, and strategic technology discussions.
Required Skills & Qualifications
- 20+ years of overall experience in IT services, Data & Analytics, consulting, or technology-led organizations.
- Significant experience leading and scaling a Data & Analytics practice, business unit, or large technology delivery organization.
- Strong expertise in data engineering, modern data platforms, cloud data ecosystems, BI, and analytics solutions.
- Demonstrated experience in business development, pre-sales, solutioning, and large deal pursuits.
- Proven track record of managing senior client relationships and delivering complex, enterprise-scale engagements.
- Strong understanding of practice P&L, revenue growth, profitability, utilization, and commercial governance.
- Experience building and managing large, multi-disciplinary teams across distributed delivery environments.
- Excellent executive communication, stakeholder management, negotiation, and leadership skills.
- Ability to translate business challenges into scalable data and analytics solutions.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience in a global IT services or consulting organization.
- Exposure to industry-specific data solutions, including insurance, financial services, healthcare, or other enterprise sectors.
- Experience with Snowflake, Databricks, Microsoft Fabric, cloud-native data platforms, and modern data architecture.
- Familiarity with Generative AI, data science, machine learning, and AI-enabled analytics.
- Experience developing strategic technology partnerships and expanding offshore delivery capabilities.
Key Success Metrics
- Practice revenue growth and profitability.
- New business acquisition and expansion of existing accounts.
- Pipeline development and conversion of strategic opportunities.
- Delivery quality, customer satisfaction, and operational efficiency.
- Growth in team capability, leadership depth, and talent retention.
- Development of differentiated service offerings, reusable assets, and strategic partnerships.
Benefits
Diversity Inclusion:
At Exavalu, we are committed to building a diverse and inclusive workforce. We welcome applications for employment from all qualified candidates, regardless of race, color, gender, national or ethnic origin, age, disability, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity or any other status protected by applicable law. We nurture a culture that embraces all individuals and promotes diverse perspectives, where you can make an impact and grow your career. Exavalu also promotes flexibility depending on the needs of employees, customers and the business. It might be part-time work, working outside normal 9-5 business hours or working remotely. We also have a welcome back program to help people get back to the mainstream after a long break due to health or family reasons.
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