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.

We are looking for a highly driven and motivated Presales Analytics Lead to join our passionate NEXT Data team in delivering valuable insights to our clients. As a Presales Analytics Lead, you are first and foremost an engineer at heart that loves to build solutions with data and establish sound data engineering practices. You are comfortable translating clients’ business strategy and requirements into solutions underpinned by Data & Analytics, where Artificial Intelligence/ Machine Learning (AI/ML) and Business Intelligence play an integral part in our clients’ success. You are also passionate about technology, with a keen eye for data architecture and delivery approach to achieve the right business outcomes. 

What will you do?

Leadership & Team Development

• Coaching and growing a team of Data & AI engineers, guiding them in their work to deliver impactful insights and best practices to deliver data-driven solutions.

Standards & Best Practices

• Developing and promoting best practices in analysis, information hierarchy and ML engineering techniques.
• Curating playbooks, standardized frameworks, practice guides, and other artefacts that enable practitioners to perform their work in a structured, consistent manner.

Strategic Communication & Insight Delivery

• Creating and delivering narratives that are rich in insights, data rigor, and recommendations tailored to any data customer up to and including C-suite executives.

Business Development & Client Engagement

• Identifying opportunities to engage prospective and existing clients on enhancing or integrating AI/ML into new or existing solutions.

Project Leadership & Delivery

• Leading Analytics workstreams in large-scale projects to design, develop, and deploy AI/ML and BI use cases.

The ideal candidate should possess:

• 8+ years of end-to-end project implementation experience in delivering enterprise-level analytics solutions, ideally with a university degree in Computer Science or equivalent.
• Presales experience developing proposals and closing deals above SGD1 million, where analytics platforms, Model-as-a-Service and data engineering form a significant portion of the solution.
• Extensive experience in managing scope and risks in the SDLC of delivery application enhanced with AI/ML and/or BI capabilities.
• Strong detail-orientation and a keen sense of technology trends that could lead to business opportunities.
• Strong hands-on experience in python coding, MLOps and an enterprise BI tool such as Qlik, Tableau or Power BI.
• Strong design and implementation skills in logical and physical data models for analytics applications.
• Advanced knowledge of performance optimization in AI/ML models and computations.
• Delivering AI/ML solutions in an Agile approach with clear approaches for risk mitigation.
• Enterprise analytics solutions such as Databricks, or coding languages such as R or PySpark.
• Leveraging on various data & analytics toolkits within cloud services like AWS or Azure.
• Data Management, Data Governance or real-time streaming technologies.

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.