Principal Consultant - DACH

About the Position

Principal Consultant - DACH

Germany

Our Client, a Data & AI strategy and implementation firm, is looking for a Senior/Principal Consultant to join their team. This role is key in the technical delivery of high-quality data management solutions for our customers. The Senior Consultant will work directly with clients, leading them through discovery, supporting design and implementation of scalable solutions. This position represents a combination of technical expertise and the ability to interact with customers, ensuring that solutions meet business requirements and deliver strategic value. Expertise in Master Data Management, Data Quality, and Data Governance best practices from architectural and functional perspectives is of key importance for this role, as well as hands-on experience in configuration of data management products, educating and providing guidance to clients.

Responsibilities

Advisory

• Communicate with business and technical stakeholders to gather requirements, business needs, and strategic objectives
• Educate stakeholders on technical and functional capabilities of the implemented software platforms, share best practices, and drive decision-making processes
• Prepare and conduct discovery workshops on specific topics to business and technical stakeholders
• Map business requirements to technical capabilities, help to adjust customer expectations, and support them with recommendations
• Translate technical information appropriately to different levels of the client organization

Solution Design and Documentation

• Document requirements, user stories, and test plans
• Develop and document design for solution features including data models, quality, data access rules, workflows, user interfaces, and data integration mappings

Development and Configuration Leadership

• Configure the most critical components of the solution
• Validate development done by other team members, develop testing and deployment plans
• Provide oversight during development/configuration activities, testing, and production deployment to the rest of the project team, developers, and consultants

Pre-Sales Support

• Prepare customer presentations, proofs of concept, visual materials, and other tools for client presentations for business development purposes
• Contribute to proposal and statement of work documentation by defining and defending the needed scope of work, project approach, and effort

Requirements

• Advanced German and English speaker
• Highly focused on detail and results, with the ability to work with minimal supervision
• Demonstrated ability to build relationships with multinational technical team members
• Advise and guide customers, demonstrate technical expertise and functional knowledge
• Proactive identifier and communicator of technical risks
• Demonstrated interest and ability to identify and assist in the sale of new project opportunities
• Confident to tackle new business or technical challenges
• Disciplined curiosity: interest in asking "why" and synthesizing important findings into alternatives and recommendations
• Excellent oral and written communicator
• Able to travel to customer locations as needed

Skills

Core Skills

• German
• English
• Master Data Management
• Data Quality
• Data Governance
• SQL
• JavaScript
• REST API
• Data Modeling
• Data Platforms
• Data Governance Principles
• SAP ERP Integration/Migration

Secondary Skills

• Communication
• Relationship Building
• Proactive Risk Identification
• New Project Opportunity Identification
• Disciplined Curiosity
• Travel

We Offer

• Fast Track to Solution Architect / Managing Consultant in a growing regional organization
• Customers are Fortune 500 corporate environments, and project work can occur in groups at customer sites or remotely in small teams

About the Company

Our Client is a leading Data & AI strategy and implementation firm, dedicated to delivering high-quality data management solutions to clients across various industries.