Manager, Data Strategy And Services

The Manager, Data Strategy and Services is responsible for Eversource’s Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) data and governance.

At Eversource, data is considered a strategic asset that unlocks new insights and drives meaningful actions. This role will act as the data champion driving data-driven mindset and providing the data expertise on metering data

Essential Functions:

• Enforce data governance processes and tools to continue to simplify data access while ensuring data quality, literacy, and security.
• Provide subject matter expertise on data management and analytics, championing enterprise-wide data practices to ensure data assets align with the enterprise strategy while being developed and delivered to meet business needs.
• Responsible for Eversource’s advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) data from ingestion to analytics.
• Collaborate with Data Governance Lead, business Data Managers from other data domains. And collaborate with the architecture teams to ensure consistency and alignment on governance practices and principles.
• Lead data architecture design and enable industry leading data engineering solutions and tools to help democratize data access across Eversource and enable AI/ML for business.
• Own the data model from a technical perspective, working directly with business stakeholders to ensure accurate business definitions and logic is applied to the data.
• Develop and maintain data catalogs in the data platform, ensuring that they are up-to-date, accurate, and easily accessible to stakeholders across the organization.
• Championing and living the data as an asset mindset
• Provide oversight to the data engineering teams ensuring that data pipelines, transformations, and integrations are executed to align with the overall data architecture and governance framework.
• Hire, coach, and mentor the talent required to build and maintain a best-in-class Customer data team; drive ongoing learning to stay ahead of latest trends.
• Partnering with business leaders to understand data needs and use cases, prioritizing those needs and driving the availability of data for analytics while protecting it and reducing risks related to it.

Required Skills

• Familiarity with cloud-based data management and analytics platforms, with a preference for experience working with Azure cloud services such as Azure Purview and Azure Data Factory.
• 10+ years of experience in the Information Technology field with a focus on data strategy and governance.
• 3+ years of experience building, managing and leading teams.
• Familiarity with architectural design patterns, including centralized, decentralized, and distributed approaches, and the ability to apply this knowledge to optimize data management and analytics operations.
• Strong data management and data governance experience, including expertise in cataloging, data classifications, compliance, access control, and other related areas.
• Intermediate proficiency in standardized data analysis and analytics programming languages such as SQL, Python, PySpark, and Scala, with a focus on their application in data management and analytics workflows.
• Distributed delivery experience on large programs.

Education:

• Bachelor’s degree in information technology or services, related discipline, or equivalent experience in leu of having a degree.
• Master’s degree a plus but not required.

Licenses & Certifications:

• Certification in Agile practices is a plus (SAFe® Agilist / Leading SAFe).
• Certification in one or more cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP).

Compensation and Benefits

Eversource offers a competitive total rewards program. The salary range for this position starts at $156,550.00 and the market rate is $170,700.00, plus incentive. Salary is commensurate with your experience. Check out the career site for an overview of our benefits.

Working Conditions:

• Must be available to work emergency restoration assignment as required.
• Must be available to travel between MA/CT/NH as necessary.