Director Of Data & Analytics

A client in the Cincinnati, OH area is looking for a Remote Director of Data & Analytics to join their team. The Director of Data & Analytics role is to focus on strategic development and operations of the data & analytics practice, including managing staffing requirements, optimizing processes and technology, ensuring a high availability BI/data warehouse and Lakehouse platform, providing ongoing data integrations, and delivering insights and advanced analytics. The Director of Data & Analytics will work closely with business executives and stakeholders in other departments to identify, recommend, develop, implement, and support analytics solutions to deliver essential information to satisfy their information needs.

Responsibilities include, but not limited to:

* Govern: Envision, design, and implement a Data Governance program in partnership will all business unit stakeholders. Deliver and enable data self-serve environment with proper guardrails. Develop data standard definitions, products, catalogs. Define standards we should adopt to ensure data quality, integrity, and trustworthiness.

* Modernize: Provide thought leadership and delivery in the modernization of the Data and Analytics environments including Cloud consolidation and Master Data Management.

* Deliver: Oversee the delivery of business focused BI dashboards and data serving digital applications. Coordinate within IT and business to ensure delivery quality. Manage supply and demand of BI resources vs. Project requests.

* Operate: Ensure effective improvement, monitoring, maintenance, operation, change management, incident and problem resolution for a high availability, 24/7, North American environment. Oversee all reports, dashboards, and information artifacts. Develop, implement, and maintain all key BI and data management policies and procedures, including those for BI/EDW/Lakehouse architecture, data centers, standards, purchasing, monitoring, and service provision. Examine, refine, and develop BI metrics.

Desired Skills and Experience

* 10+ years related work experience

* Modernization - has lead a data modernization program/effort within a large enterprise level company

* Data Governance - lead a program

* AWS - Leadership experience directly overseeing designing and/or constructing and/or migrating and/or maintaining a AWS cloud native Data and Analytics environment.

* Proven experience in building and managing virtual off-shore teams.

* Strong technical knowledge of Master data management systems, data warehousing methodology, data lakehouse concepts, virtual data warehouse, data quality, data modelling, data governance, MDM, analytics, and predictive modeling.

Plusses

* MBA is an asset.

* Extensive knowledge of AWS Data and Analytics services, including S3, DMS, Glue, EMR, DynamoDB, RDS, Redshift, Kinesis, Sagemaker - the client is moving to AWS