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 change at scale while maintaining hands-on technical involvement.

Support revenue growth through authentic relationships
Partner with our demand generation team on sales calls, proposal development, and relationship building that authentically represents our values. You'll help prospects understand how Test Double's approach differs from traditional consultancies while establishing trust in our capabilities.

Expand Test Double's strategic market presence
Establish our reputation in the data space through thoughtful content creation, conference presentations, and innovative tooling that demonstrates our capabilities. Your thought leadership will directly contribute to our ability to serve strategic markets and attract exceptional talent.

What you bring to Test Double

Software engineering roots
You have built and maintained production software, not only data pipelines. This is a hard requirement. 

Depth across the modern data stack
You are a generalist with opinionated, well-reasoned defaults: hands-on with dbt, Python, SQL, a major cloud warehouse such as Snowflake, Databricks, or BigQuery, and orchestration with Dagster or Airflow. You have strong views on data testing and what good looks like.

A track record of growing other engineers
You have concrete examples of developing engineers and consultants through feedback, coaching, and support. You thrive when the people around you get better.

Client consulting experience
You have earned client trust through client-facing or consulting work, and you understand how to navigate a client organization, influence stakeholders, and tie technical work to business outcomes.

Comfort building something new
You work well through ambiguity and can shape something with limited scaffolding. A practice in its early days is exactly the environment you want.

Alignment with Test Double's values
You are empathetic, humble, and committed to continuous improvement, and you do your best work in an inclusive environment where everyone's contributions are encouraged.

What we offer

Compensation:

Starting offers: $200,000 - $220,000USD

Benefits:

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  100% remote



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  Time off: 5 weeks flexible time off (vacation and sick time) + 10 Paid Holidays, 2-week sabbatical after 5 years



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  Company Ownership: ESOP Employee stock ownership program - Test Double is 100% employee-owned



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  Family Support: 8 weeks paid parental leave at 100% of salary, plus additional unpaid



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  Retirement: Company Contribution of 3% of salary to (401k)



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  Continuing Education: 1 week of conference attendance (and up to $3,000 of expenses)



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  Health: Premium health/dental/vision insurance (80-100% covered)



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  New computer hardware purchase every 3 years



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  Co-working space reimbursement (1/2 rent up to $500 monthly)



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  Company-wide in-person retreats



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  Short and Long Term Disability



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  Life Insurance

Eligibility

• Must be authorized to work in the United States without current or future visa sponsorship.


• We are not accepting submissions from recruiting agencies for this role.