Principal Data Consultant

Improve how the world builds software by bringing craftsmanship to data

Test Double is building a data practice, and we're looking for a Principal Data Consultant to lead the technical work at its center. We believe the craftsmanship that makes software durable applies just as well to data, and we're looking for someone who can prove it on real client engagements. This is a hands-on role where you'll lead data consulting on client engagements, mentor consultants into capable data practitioners, and help shape what the practice offers as it evolves.

As a 100% employee-owned company operating remotely since 2011, we have over 120 consultants across the United States and Canada. You'll work alongside our sales and solutions teams, who carry business development, while you focus on delivery quality, technical credibility, and growing capability across the team. As the practice matures, you'll help shape its direction, lead our most complex engagements, and establish Test Double 's reputation in the data space.

Our Approach to AI
We use AI to meaningfully improve how software and data platforms are designed, built, and delivered. We exercise judgment in when and how to apply it, balancing speed, quality, reliability, and maintainability.

We produce work that meets a high bar, can explain our approach, and adapt as tools and practices evolve. We help teams adopt AI effectively by shaping patterns, practices, and standards that improve outcomes over time.

Our Team Culture
We support clients in challenging situations and foster engagement on project teams. We balance pragmatism in delivery with principled quality standards. We encourage other team members, guiding them to better solutions and approaches in ways that help those team members grow.

We are open and honest communicators, modeling that behavior with our clients and fostering a culture of interconnectedness within client teams. We establish supportive and trusting relationships with our client teams and with our fellow Double Agents.

Your mission as a Principal Data Consultant

Lead the technical work on client data engagements
Take ownership of client data work across architecture, pipelines, analytics, and orchestration. You apply a pragmatic, incremental approach that delivers the highest-leverage improvements first, rather than big-bang transformations that stall. You help clients establish scalable, observable, and durable data platforms and engineering practices they can sustain long after our engagement ends.

Drive strategic transformation on our most challenging engagements
Lead complex data initiatives that other consultancies struggle to deliver. Whether modernizing years-old data warehouses, guiding platform migrations, designing analytics and lakehouse platforms from zero to one, consolidating fragmented data ecosystems, or establishing AI-ready foundations, you'll tackle problems that haven't been solved before.

Set a high bar for trustworthy data
Bring clear, well-reasoned opinions on testing, reliability, and maintainability. The data foundations you build should hold up over time and give clients something they can actually trust their AI and their decisions to.

Develop the next generation of data practitioners
Mentor and guide our consultants through structured coaching that elevates their technical capabilities and client relationship skills.

Help shape what the practice offers
Identify patterns across engagements and turn them into reusable tooling, processes, and documented service offerings. You will help define and evolve Test Double 's data consulting practice, informed by real client work and strong opinions on architecture, governance, modeling, observability, and delivery.

Partner with clients as a strategic advisor
Provide executive-level consulting to client leadership, helping them navigate digital transformation challenges and align technology initiatives with business objectives. You'll influence organizational cha