Director of Enterprise Data

POSITION SUMMARY: The Director of Enterprise Data will spearhead the organization's data management, analytics, and master data management initiatives. The incumbent will shape and lead enterprise-wide data efforts, ensuring data is leveraged effectively to generate insights, enhance operational efficiency, and support strategic decision-making. The Director of Enterprise Data involves advancing data platforms, data management practices, data literacy, data governance, and self-service analytics capabilities.

The ideal candidate will possess a blend of technical expertise, business acumen, and leadership skills. Responsibilities encompass overseeing all business intelligence efforts, including ETL data warehousing and data lake implementation, governance, quality assurance, and reporting. Additionally, the Director will play a key role in defining the strategic vision and guiding the organization towards a more modern data architecture.

PRINCIPAL RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Oversees the design, build, implementation, and optimization of BI solutions/technologies including: ETL, Data Warehouse, Data Lake, Data Marts, Data Base Administration, Reporting/Visualization.
• Develops a robust Data Governance/Quality program with rules defined and enforced through Master Data Management.
• Leads the organization’s current journey towards Modern Data Architecture leveraging: Expanded self-service capabilities within functional teams, Ability to harvest insights from both structured and unstructured data, Big Data Ecosystem solutions, optimize private and public cloud utilization, Enhance Data Science capabilities.
• Strategically leads, develops, and articulates technically oriented strategies and roadmaps, which support the corporate business vision.
• Partners with functional teams in the discovery, design and implementation of Data Analytics solutions.
• Engages and fosters a collaborative team environment through effective leadership: Inspires and motivates team to higher performance, continually communicates the highest-priority strategic initiatives to keep the team focused on the right things. Articulates how the team’s work contributes to broader business objectives, Maintains a culture of trust and respect within the team, within IT and in all interactions with the business. Provides development to direct reporting leaders as well as other employees in the organization.
• Plans and manages budgets, forecasts, projects and associated staffing requirements.
• Prioritizes and manages overall schedule and portfolio of projects.
• Performs other job-related duties as assigned.
• Coaches and develops a team of professionals to assist in their development and attainment of necessary skills to lift performance. Monitors staff performance and drives performance improvement initiatives and ensures that service levels meet or exceed agreed upon standards.

QUALIFICATIONS:

• Experience working with onshore/offshore teams and managing vendor relationships.
• Proven ability to work with cross-functional teams.
• Strong business acumen and understanding of data-driven decision-making.
• Excellent leadership skills including team motivation, coaching, regular feedback and development.
• Demonstrated success in driving change, managing priorities, and delivering results in a fast-paced, multi-project environment.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:

• 10 years of experience in enterprise-level IT operations and support.
• 7 years of experience in managing large Business Intelligence initiatives.

7 years of experience of supervisory or management experience.