Principal Data Strategist: Finance Business Engagement Partner

Deltek is seeking an experienced Business Engagement Partner to serve as the single point of contact between Finance and Enterprise Data & Intelligence (EDI) organization. This role is responsible for owning business engagement end-to-end, deeply understanding business strategy, roadmap, priorities, and pain points, and translating them into clear, outcome-driven data and analytics demand.

Responsibilities:

• Serve as the primary data and analytics partner for the assigned business function, developing a deep understanding of business strategy, KPIs, and decision-making needs
• Own end-to-end business engagement, from intake and clarification through delivery alignment and post-delivery feedback
• Act as a trusted advisor and change leader, driving adoption of data and analytics solutions through effective communication, training, and enablement
• Champion automation and AI-ready approaches to reduce manual effort, improve scalability, and enable advanced analytics
• Represent the business function in data and analytics prioritization and roadmap discussions, providing informed input based on business context and data expertise
• Contribute to evaluating demand against delivery capacity, dependencies, and roadmap commitments
• Translate business challenges into clear, outcome-focused data, reporting, and analytics requirements
• Guide stakeholders toward effective solutions, ensuring demand is scalable, reusable, and aligned with broader data strategy
• Lead delivery of data and analytics initiatives, validating scope, outcomes, and success measures at key milestones
• Drive regular business function readouts for alignment and ensure solutions are adoption-ready
• Partner with data, analytics, and platform teams to contribute business input into critical data elements, metrics, and definitions
• Support adoption of data quality standards and governance practices, promoting reuse, standardization, and reduction of duplicative solutions

Requirements:

• Proven experience operating as a senior business partner in data, analytics, or technology-enabled transformation roles supporting finance
• Demonstrated ability to influence stakeholders and drive change across business and technical teams
• Strong experience shaping and prioritizing demand in complex, multi-stakeholder environments
• Experience engaging with global and cross-functional teams
• Ability to translate business needs into actionable data and analytics requirements
• Track record of leading delivery of cross-functional initiatives from concept through adoption
• Solid understanding of enterprise data concepts, including data quality, reporting layers, analytics, and governance
• Excellent communication, facilitation, and stakeholder management skills
• Passion for data-driven decision-making, scalable solutions, and continuous improvement
• Experience in SaaS technology B2B companies
• Experience applying automation or AI to improve data stewardship, reporting, or analytics workflows
• Strong data storytelling and visualization skills
• Background in process design, data quality, or analytics-driven transformation
• Experience in SaaS or technology-driven organizations
• Degree in business, finance, operations, information systems, or a related field