UNFI · 1 day ago
Director IT Data Services-Remote
Providence, RI
Full-time
Remote
Director/Executive
10+ years exp
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Responsibilities
Lead the design, development, implementation, and maintenance of complex data solutions.
Develop conceptual, logical, and physical data models to support data analysis and business intelligence.
Create and maintain current- and target-state data architectures.
Define and manage standards, guidelines, and processes to ensure data quality.
Manage senior business stakeholders to secure strong engagement for the solution and ensure that the delivery of the project aligns to longer-term strategic roadmaps.
Experience driving reporting methodology, improvements, and technology implementations in support of customer analytics.
Strong strategic, analytical, and creative skills with a history of tackling and solving complex challenges.
Simplify the existing data architecture, delivering reusable services and cost saving opportunities in line with the policies and standards of the group.
Develop & maintain the long-term strategy to drive data quality for the enterprise.
Provide clear, continuous, and consistent data architecture leadership at a detailed level within the project.
Implements principles, policies, standards, and guidelines for data management.
Define indicators of performance and quality metrics and ensure compliance with data related policies, standards, roles and responsibilities, and adoption requirements.
Develop and maintain UNFIs Data Engineering, BI and Data Reliability teams to ensure alignment with UNFIs data vision and strategy.
Define, manage, and advance enterprise information management principles, policies and programs for stewardship, advocacy and custodianship of data and analytics, in concert with legal, information security, and corporate risk and compliance offices.
Develop, plan, direct and control strategic short and long term financial and operational goals and objectives for a broad functional area.
Manage and establish over data services goals and objectives throughout the Data Services Team.
Demonstrate the ability to form top-performing teams by empowering team members appropriately, leading through example and gaining the respect of peers and associates.
Encourage creative and innovated thought within team to sponsor team growth.
Identify and develop top talent to support the organization’s succession planning efforts.
Qualification
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Required
Bachelor’s degree in the field of data science, computer science, information systems, or software engineering, or equivalent work-related experience required.
10+ years of experience in Master Data Management, BI and Analytics, Big Data, Datalake and data warehousing development.
10+ years of experience managing data requirement analysts, data engineers, data architects, and analytics/reporting teams.
5+ years of experience in Agile Development Methodology
5+ years of experience in Advanced Analytics, Predictive Modeling, Data Mining, and Machine Learning.
5 years of experience implementing BI and data management platforms and strategies (such as Informatica, Databricks, Snowflake, ML/AI, etc.) Experience with Power BI or other similar reporting tools.
Proven experience as a thought leader and track record for driving a data management practice in complex organizations.
In-depth technical knowledge in building and deploying data analytics, business intelligence, and data solutions leveraging cloud-based platforms in AWS.
Strong knowledge of curating large, complex datasets to derive KPIs, metrics, and analytics that transform empirical data into insightful, strategic decision-making visualizations.
Strong knowledge of data governance and master data management.
Strong leadership and agile project and product management skills; experience organizing, planning, and executing large-scale projects from vision through implementation, involving internal and external resources.
Strong business acumen and ability to translate complex data and analytical concepts into actionable insights for non-technical stakeholders.
Highly flexible and adaptable to work in a fast-paced, continuously changing environment.
Strong ability to navigate ambiguous situations and deliver high-quality results.
Highly motivated and self-driven, ability to prioritize and manage competing priorities.
Strong teamwork and interpersonal skills; ability to communicate and influence at all management levels and with both technical and non-technical individuals and successfully manage in a cross-functional environment.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills, strong customer focus and demonstrated ability to work in geographically dispersed teams.
Flexible and adaptable to learning and understanding new technologies.
Good judgment is required for this position as there may be times when direct supervision may not be immediately available.
Preferred
Advanced degree/MBA preferred.
Experience leading digital transformation is strongly preferred.
Company
UNFI
UNFI is North America’s Premier Food Wholesaler.
10001+ employees
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Current Stage
Late StageLeadership Team
Andre Persaud
President and Chief Executive Officer Retail, UNFI
Santhosh Kumar
Senior Vice President, Chief Technology Officer
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