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Zensar Technologies

Principal Market Leader – DATA ENGINEERING & ANALYTICS & AI (South Africa)

December 3, 2024

As a DEA market leader at Zensar takes up end to end ownerships of pre-sales, solution design, service offerings, external & internal communications, projects and provide valuable inputs to define strategies.
Here is how you will contribute:
  • Responding to client RFI, RFP documents with proper solution design including cost estimates.
  • Proactive demand/pipeline generation in working with vertical/sales leader/partners and customers in the market
  • Understanding customer requirements and create technical proposition.
  • Creating proactive proposals by understanding customer business priorities, and technology landscape.
  • Contributing to So Ws, technical project roadmaps, etc required for successful execution of projects leveraging Technical Scoping & Solutioning approach.
  • Building Solution roadmap & strategy for internal DE&A platform.
  • Leading analyst briefings and presentations
  • Managing all aspects of technical solutions development and ensure successful project deliveries.
  • Developing best practises as & when needed.
  • Estimating effort, identifying risk and providing technical support whenever needed.
  • Demonstrating the ability to multitask and re prioritizing responsibility based on dynamic requirements.
  • Leading and mentoring various practice competency practice teams as needed.
Deliver (as a lead) on key strategic or consulting engagements for a period of time.

Skills required to contribute:
15-20 Years of Data and Analytics experience with minimum 5+ years in one of cloud platforms like Azure, AWS or GCP Cloud native data services

  • Ability to engage and create rapport and relationship with CIO/CDO/CDAO/CTO at a technical Data SME level.
  • Excellent presentation and communication skills. This role will require regular/frequent client presentations, presales discussions with group of client stakeholders and influence them with our solutions.
  • Experience working on cloud data platforms (AWS/Azure/Google Cloud)
  • Expertise in Snowflake, Databricks, Big Query, Synapse
  • Good understanding of Gen AI/AI, ML implementation life cycle, latest tools and offerings.
  • Working experience with ETL (Extract-Transform-Load) tools (e.g., Informatica, Talend, Ab Initio, Pentaho)
  • Experience working with various data visualization tools (e.g., Tableau, Power BI, Oracle Analytics Cloud etc.)
  • Analytical and consulting skills
  • Strong written, verbal, and presentation communication skills
  • Be able to work with customers independently.
  • Excellent communication skills interviewing, preparation and delivery of presentations and reports
  • Working within a project management/agile delivery methodology in a leading role as part of a wider team.
Ability to consult/advise customers on data architecture, MDM, data migration, data lake, data lake house, data governance, visualisation and analytics etc. This role requires breadth of capability in data rather than a deep in a particular area (e.g. data science)

KPI for this role:
  • Pipeline
  • Revenue
  • Influencing in conversion of the opportunity (conversion rate)
Market Impact/Brand (subjective)


Advantage Zensar

We are a technology consulting and services company with 11, 800+ associates in 33 global locations. More than 130 leading enterprises depend on our expertise to be more disruptive, agile, and competitive. Our success in South Africa for 24 years comes from our people-first focus that emphasizes empowerment from the ground up.

Zensar is recognized as proudly South African in 2022 and are the Top Employer in 2024,2023 and 2022 in South Africa by the Top Employer Institute. Zensar is a certified B-BBEE Level 2 contributor and partners with MICT, SETA, Education Africa, and Tomorrow Trust. We strongly believe in the power of communities and leveraging diversity to solve problems together.

Zensar is a place where you are free to express yourself in an environment that values individuality, nurtures development and is mindful of wellbeing. We put our people and customers at the center of everything that we do. Our core values include:

  • Putting people first
  • Client-centricity
  • Collaboration
Grow. Own. Achieve. Learn. with Zensar. To know more about our Employee Value Proposition, please click here .
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