Principal Data Consultant

Role Overview

We are looking for a Principal Data Consultant to lead the design and delivery of enterprise-scale data platforms across healthcare, retail, education, and enterprise domains. The ideal candidate brings 12+ years of hands-on experience spanning data architecture, ETL/ELT engineering, cloud migration, and advanced analytics — combined with a track record of translating complex business requirements into scalable, governed data solutions. This is a senior, client-facing role that blends architecture leadership, technical mentorship, and hands-on engineering across AWS and GCP ecosystems.

Position Identification

• Working time: Monday to Friday, 14:00-23:00

• Start date: ASAP

• Engagement: Long-term

• Language: English professional mandatory

• Salary: Negotiable

• Locals & Expats are welcome

Key Responsibilities

• Architect end-to-end data platforms — conceptual, logical, and physical models — aligned to business and analytics needs.

• Design and deliver lakehouse, data warehouse, and cloud-native analytics solutions on AWS and GCP.

• Engineer scalable ETL/ELT pipelines using Informatica, SSIS, Apache Spark (PySpark/Scala), AWS Glue, Apache Airflow, and Cloud Composer.

• Lead large-scale data and platform modernization initiatives, including on-premises-to-cloud migrations with zero data loss.

• Define and enforce data governance, quality, and standards across multi-source data feeds.

• Build advanced analytics solutions — including graph-based models (Neo4j), demand forecasting, recommendation engines, and near-real-time streaming pipelines.

• Partner with product, BI, and business teams to deliver dashboards and analytics that drive measurable outcomes.

• Provide technical leadership: architecture reviews, code reviews, mentorship, and knowledge transfer across engineering teams.

• Engage with senior client stakeholders to translate strategic objectives into actionable data roadmaps.

• Stay current with emerging data, ML, and cloud technologies and apply them to client problems.

• Improve reliability, performance, and maintainability of existing processes.

• Develop logging, monitoring, and operational support mechanisms.

• Support deployment and operation of data workflows within AWS — working with Amazon S3, AWS Lambda, Amazon RDS, Amazon SQS, and Amazon CloudWatch.

• Participate in automation and cloud-based operational improvements.

Required Skills & Qualifications

• 12+ years of experience in data engineering, data architecture, and analytics platform delivery.

• Deep expertise in enterprise data modeling — dimensional, normalized, and star schema designs.

• Hands-on mastery of ETL/ELT tooling: Informatica, SSIS, Apache Spark (PySpark and Scala), AWS Glue, Apache Airflow, Cloud Composer.

• Strong proficiency with AWS services: S3, EMR, Lambda, Redshift, Kinesis, Step Functions, Glue, SageMaker.

• Strong proficiency with GCP services: BigQuery, Cloud Composer, Dataflow, Cloud Functions, Pub/Sub, GKE, Cloud SQL.

• Expertise across databases: Amazon Redshift, Google BigQuery, Oracle, MS SQL Server, PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, Neo4j, Teradata.

• Strong programming skills in Python, SQL, Scala, HiveQL, and SparkSQL.

• Experience designing BI and visualization solutions with Power BI, Tableau, OBIEE, BI Publisher, MicroStrategy, SSRS, or Crystal Reports.

• Demonstrated experience leading teams, mentoring engineers, and managing senior stakeholders.

Preferred Qualifications

• Applied experience in machine learning, predictive modeling, and advanced analytics.

• Experience in healthcare or pharmaceutical data (e.g., IQVIA, Symphony Health, KOMODO Health, Veeva).

• Background in retail analytics, customer 360, or demand forecasting solutions.

• Cloud certifications (AWS, GCP) or Oracle BI Foundation Suite certification.

• Experience speaking at workshops, conferences, or contributing to thought leadership in data.

Education

• MS in Data Science, Computer Science, or a related discipline (preferred).

• BS in Computer Science or equivalent (required).

About Vinashore – Serdao Group

Serdao is a French IT services company with delivery teams in Vietnam.

We support international clients across multiple industries on complex and long-term software projects. Our strength is to combine strong technical expertise with reliable long-term delivery.

Why Join Vinashore – Serdao Group

• Join a French tech company in Vietnam, combining European standards with local agility

• Work in a truly international environment, with 13+ nationalities collaborating daily

• Contribute to projects serving clients in 32 countries worldwide

• Be part of long term, meaningful SaaS projects with real business impact

• Grow your skills through mentoring, code reviews, and collaboration with experienced teams

• Enjoy a professional, supportive, and people focused work culture

• Visa, resident card, and work permit provided for expat profiles working in Vietnam