Principal Project Director, Data Apps Mgt

NCS is a leading technology services firm that operates across the Asia Pacific region in over 20 cities, providing consulting, digital services, technology solutions, and more. We believe in harnessing the power of technology to achieve extraordinary things, creating lasting value and impact for our communities, partners, and people. Our diverse workforce of 13,000 has delivered large-scale, mission-critical, and multi-platform projects for governments and enterprises in Singapore and the APAC region. 

As a Project Director, you will identify and translate market and business opportunities for our clients into actionable recommendations for the organisation. You will provide stewardship over the design, development and delivery of complex digital analytics projects from initiation to closure. To achieve this, you will need to be a leader who can articulate a compelling vision to your client and team, and sure that this vision is delivered through all stages of the project.

You should also have a healthy appetite for exploring new technology and developing business cases to support enterprise-wide data analytics solutions.

What will you do?

• Oversee the implementation of data analytics strategy for a client organisation, and develop new service offerings, by providing guidance and coaching to a team of project managers
• Client-facing interaction including providing analyses, recommendations, presentations and advice to clients
• Lead interdisciplinary teams that combine technical, business and data science competencies that deliver work in waterfall or agile software development lifecycle methodologies
• Understands the strategic direction set by senior management as it relates to team goals
• Uses considerable judgment to determine solution and seeks guidance on complex problems
• Engage senior client and partner stakeholders for regular monitoring and sharing of project progress, and provide guidance to the project team on key project risks and issues
• Oversee team management including budgets, forecasting, work allocations and staffing
• Drive effective performance management practices within the department in accordance with organisation policies and procedures
• Demonstrate an acute ability in project risks and issue management, and provide guidance on key project and design decisions in project steering committee meetings
• Build a team of high performing, motivated and committed data analytics professionals as part of practice-building and centre management leadership role

The Ideal Candidate Should Possess:

• Possess good communications skills to understand our customers' core business objectives and build end-to-end data centric solutions to address them
• A data analytics professional should have a deep passion for analysing and resolving complex problems through a systematic approach to deliver business outcomes. He displays an intellectual curiosity as well as the capability to engage with stakeholders to understand business issues.
• Good critical thinking and problem-solving abilities, with curiosity to ask why and tenacity to find the root causes
• Stay up to date with evolving analytics concepts and techniques including team management and project management processes
• Ability to work independently and manage multiple tasks and projects

Must Have:

• Minimum of Bachelor's Degree required in related field; strong preference for fields of study in the engineering, computer science, statistics or analytics
• The successful candidate needs to have either
• More than 10 years of experience implementing a broad range of Analytics/Business Intelligence projects such as:
• The right candidate will need to have hands-on experience with one or more of the following Analytics technology stacks as well as familiarity with a broad range of solutions for visualization, advanced analytics, data ingestion/transformation, storage and hosting and willingness to learn new ones on the job.
• Project management certifications such as PMP, Agile, ITIL
• Proven track record in program management around integration, scope, cost, time, resource, quality, risk, procurement, communication and stakeholder management
• more than 7 years of experience leading an Analytics consulting team OR
• experience with leading one or more MNCs through the journey to becoming a datadriven organization OR
• Data Governance and Management
• visualizing KPIs on business dashboards
• applying advanced analytics/data science techniques to rea ize business values
• Data Management & Storage: Informatica, Oracle Data Warehousing, IBM InfoSphere, Microsoft SQL Server, Hortonworks Data Platform, Cloudera, SAS
• Data Visualisation: Tableau, Qlik, Microsoft PowerBI, Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise, IBM Cognos, MicroStrategy, SAS et
• Statistical/Data Science Tools: SPSS, R, Python, Anaconda distributions, Jupyter

Nice To Have:

• Knowledge in database modelling and data warehousing concepts
• Appreciation of software engineering tools such as Java, .NET, or higher-level programming languages
• Exposure in artificial intelligence – machine learning, deep learning, reinforcement learning
• Experience working with Singaporean clients, the Singapore government, familiarity with GDPR in Europe, PDPA in Singapore will be an advantage
• Certification and applied experience in cloud-based analytics platforms such as:
• Microsoft Azure Analytics 
• Amazon Web Services Analytics
• Google Cloud Platform Analytics

We are driven by our AEIOU beliefs—Adventure, Excellence, Integrity, Ownership, and Unity—and we seek individuals who embody these values in both their professional and personal lives. We are committed to our Impact: Valuing our clients, Growing our people, and Creating our future.  

Together, we make the extraordinary happen.  

Learn more about us at ncs.co and visit our LinkedIn career site.