Location: London (UK)
Department: Engineering
Hours: Full-time
YLD is a software engineering and product design consultancy, founded in 2013, headquartered in London, with delivery teams in Lisbon and Porto.
We work with engineering and product leaders who know what good looks like and are frustrated by the gap between strategy and execution
We embed senior engineers and designers inside client teams, working in their codebase, their tooling, their delivery rhythm.
AI runs through how our teams work, and we help clients adopt it into their own workflows too.We're building out data as a first-class practice at YLD, and we need someone in London who can be the credible technical voice in front of clients and prospects, not just describing what we could do, but backing it with real delivery experience.
This is a senior role, reporting to our Head of Engineering
You'll sit alongside our commercial and client services leadership in meetings where technical credibility matters, help shape and win new engagements, and stay close enough to client work to guide it and step in yourself when an engagement needs you.
Alongside, we expect you to build our external reputation in data through events, writing, and the wider community.You've been a strong data engineer or data lead for years, and you're comfortable in front of a client as well as in a pull request
You know what good data work looks like well enough to spot it, or its absence, in the first ten minutes of a client conversation.
You've probably led a team before.
Consultancy background is a strong plus, but not essential if you've got real client or stakeholder exposure elsewhere.
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