Director of Data Services Greensboro, NC

Director of Data Services

 

 

Job ID: Job-2762

location:       Greensboro, NC

Jobtype:        Permanent

Rate:   $150K - $200K +bonus

       

Responsibilities:

•    Lead Data Governance activities to advance the knowledge of business terms and uses through the entire enterprise and establish business ownership of data.  Responsible for the enterprise data model, including the physical and logical models, business semantic layer, and establish best practice development standards.

•    Advise business partners on technology alternatives and technology implications of business directions.  Consult and advise business and technology subject-matter experts, ultimately translating business requirements into technology solution approaches.  Responsible for Business Intelligence capabilities and developing and implementing strategies to support business requirements.

•    Own the data environment including ETL/ELT strategy, ETL/ELT code, data quality, metadata management, data stewardship, and strategy.  Responsible for setting direction on reporting and analytic tools and providing expert guidance to our business partners.

•    Responsible for the operations of the data environment, including quality of data, triaging and resolving critical issues, communication with the organization concerning the operational readiness of the data warehouse components, capacity planning, and tuning.  Promote the use of a shared infrastructure and application/services roadmap to reduce costs and improve information flows.  Ensure all functions are properly documented, with a primary owner and trained secondary owner

•    Encourage employee growth and realization of potential through mentoring, coaching, encouraging and recognizing employee accomplishments.  Provide employees with career path counseling and assignment opportunities to realize career objectives. Responsible for administering corporate human resource policies on an equitable basis.  Assists in development and achievement of employee goals.

 

Qualifications:

Education:  Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience preferred. 

10+ years related Data Services or equivalent experience

Demonstrated ability to design and maintain the data integration platform and framework in support of the Corporate Information Life Cycle Management framework

•    5+ years of experience in the architect, design and support Big Data analytic systems like Hadoop or Netezza and/or traditional data warehousing solutions and architecture

•    Successful experience working as a lead/architect on systems with complex data flow, high transaction rates and processing and with large transactional and reporting databases.

•    Extensive knowledge of ROLAP, OLAP, and/or BI tools experience like Cognos, SAS, R, Business Objects, Tableau, Microstrategy, and/or Microsoft Excel and implementing BI strategies.

•    Strong leadership skills with business and technical groups having demonstrated increased levels of responsibility and delivery.

•    Excellent verbal and written communication skills especially in conveying highly technical information to executives and business leaders in easy to understand formats.

•    Strong organizational skills

 

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