Client Engagement Lead - Data Platforms

Location: Budapest, Hungary; occasional travel, typically 2–4 trips per year

Company

hirify.global is a Budapest-based data and technology consulting company with 250+ employees and offices in New York, London, and Vienna, delivering data engineering, data science, artificial intelligence, application development, BI, and analytics projects.

What you will do

• Lead international presales activities for the Data Platform Solutions business unit in partnership with Sales.
• Build relationships with prospective and existing clients and identify their business challenges and desired outcomes.
• Work with architects and delivery experts to shape solutions, define scope, estimate effort and costs, and assess delivery risks.
• Own proposal preparation and presentation, communicate business value, and represent delivery during client discussions and negotiations.
• Ensure effective handover from presales to delivery and, when needed, act as a project sponsor or project lead.
• Support business unit leadership and collaborate with Sales, Marketing, Finance, and other competence areas.

Requirements

• Strong track record delivering data or technology consulting projects.
• Experience in presales, including client discovery, solution shaping, and proposal preparation and presentation.
• Commercial understanding of client value, delivery feasibility, and profitability.
• Knowledge of modern data platforms and the ability to discuss solution options and trade-offs.
• Leadership experience and confident communication with senior client stakeholders.
• Fluent English and Hungarian are required for international and Hungarian client communication.

Culture & Benefits

• Exposure to diverse technical and business projects.
• Opportunities to work with current technologies and tools.
• Collaborative, cohesive teams focused on shared outcomes.
• Support for work-life balance and coordination with personal commitments.
• Regular team gatherings for knowledge sharing and technical discussions.
• Personal mentoring and a people-centered culture based on mutual respect.