Head of Recruitment- Data Engineering

Head Talent Acquisition

Mumbai (Onsite)

Leadership Role | Data Engineering/Data Consulting

About the Organization

Our client is a mid-sized- IT Consulting firm, headquartered in Mumbai, delivering advanced solutions across Data Engineering, Analytics, Cloud, Application Development, and emerging technologies including GenAI.

The firm operates with a strong consulting-led delivery model, partnering with clients across India, Middle East, and North America to solve complex business challenges through data-driven digital solutions.

The Role

The Head Talent Acquisition will build a business-aligned, scalable hiring engine that directly supports revenue growth and consulting delivery excellence.

This role goes beyond recruitment operations. It requires a leader who understands consulting project cycles, technology talent markets, and workforce planning and can align hiring strategy with business outcomes.

Experience- 10- 15 years

Key Responsibilities

Business-Aligned Workforce Strategy

• Partner with Delivery and Practice Heads to forecast hiring needs across Cloud, Data, Data Engineering, Data Analytics- essentially, anything got to with Data
• Align hiring plans with revenue projections and project pipelines
• Build proactive pipelines for niche and emerging technology skills

Talent Acquisition Leadership

• Lead end-to-end hiring across niche, leadership, and volume mandates
• Improve hiring velocity, quality of hire, and fulfillment metrics
• Drive digital hiring tools, automation, and analytics
• Strengthen employer brand and candidate experience

Business Partnership & Market Intelligence

• Support Sales and Account teams during RFPs with workforce insights
• Provide compensation and talent market intelligence
• Act as a strategic advisor to leadership on workforce decisions

Governance & Transformation

• Establish TA dashboards and performance metrics
• Standardize recruitment processes
• Ensure compliance with hiring norms and policies
• Transform TA into a strategic business enabler

Ideal Candidate Profile

• 1215 years in Talent Acquisition within IT Consulting / Digital Services
• Experience hiring across Data, Cloud, ERP, and emerging tech domains
• Strong exposure to workforce planning and stakeholder management
• Data-driven mindset with comfort around dashboards and analytics
• Proven ability to scale hiring in a growth-stage organization

Why Consider This Opportunity

• Leadership visibility and strategic influence
• Direct impact on business growth
• Opportunity to build a future-ready talent function
• Fast-growing consulting environment with global exposure

Prefer to engage with immediate to 1 month joinees