Ross Stores, Inc. · 19 hours ago
Senior Director, IT - Data Technologies
Dublin, CA
Full-time
Hybrid
Director/Executive
$152K/yr - $286K/yr
15+ years expRoss Stores, Inc. is a leading off-price retail chain with over 2,200 stores, committed to providing an inclusive work environment. The Sr. Director, IT Data Technologies will lead the data technology portfolio, focusing on business intelligence and analytics platform management while fostering a customer-centric culture and guiding a team of data professionals.
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Responsibilities
Sets the mission and vision of the Data Technologies organization to foster a customer-centric culture and mindset driven by a future state data vision for the company and adding business value
Be a trusted advisor, that builds and maintains relationships with other technical leaders and business executives to develop a keen understanding of business needs; ensures efficient delivery of IT services to meet those needs
Build & manage a multi-year roadmap to modernize data & analytics platforms and enable new, strategic business capabilities
Help evolve the data technology organization to adopt Agile methods & DevOps
Determine the future skills needed in the data technologies space and build a team to realize that future. Resources will need to have the appropriate mix of strong technical knowledge, business knowledge and competencies that balance between growing agility and ensuring that core IT functions are reliable, stable and efficient
Foster a culture of trusted partnership, service, and continuous improvement
Build a deep bench of team leadership and technical talent to deliver results and support future growth and mentor the team to their full potential
Qualification
Required
At least 15 years of relevant technical experience, including 10+ years in a leadership role, 5-10 years working in IT Data & Analytics progressive gaining leadership responsibilities, building diverse teams with collaborative and innovative cultures with deep familiarity in data engineering and analytics, delivering analytics solutions
2+ years of implementation & production experience with cloud-native data & analytics platforms (Snowflake or equivalent)
Knowledge and expertise with selecting, implementing, modernizing & scaling all aspects of a data & analytics technology ecosystem: BI Analytics & Data Science/ML, Data Governance & self-service catalog, Data Pipelines and Data Lake-House & ETL
Experience working with Enterprise Architecture to ensure that the Data Technologies portfolio strategy and vision is consistent with the overall strategy and vision for IT
Knowledge of data modeling & curation for a variety of analytics use cases ranging from historical analysis to intra-day operational, predictive, statistical analysis across the lifecycle (ad-hoc, prototyping, departmental, industrialized)
Track record for leading multi-year, cross-functional & transformational IT initiatives including moving platforms to the cloud, implementing analytics tooling
Track record for leading, growing & maturing a team of data & analytics professionals
Success in using standard delivery methodologies, such as Waterfall and Agile
Ability to adapt to a fast-moving technology landscape and keep pace with the latest thinking and new technologies
Demonstrable ability to formulate a high-level strategy, then convert it into a tactical plan and execute on that plan
"Hands-on" operating style and approach but a view towards the future and willingness to invest in people development and in developing an organization that will support a large company
Superb communication skills, the ability to foster a supportive and inclusive team culture
Bachelor's degree, with a major in computer science, information systems management, mathematics, or a closely related field
Ability to influence at all levels of the organization and capability to work independently with minimal guidance. Strong organization and prioritization skills
Excellent oral and written communication skills, including the ability to effectively present technical topics to wide ranging groups (engineering/architecture to sr. executive)
Company
Ross Stores, Inc.
For the last 40+ years, Ross Stores, Inc. has grown from a six-store chain into an $21.1 billion, Fortune 500 Company.
10001+ employees
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Funding
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Leadership Team
William Sheehan
Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer
BG Badriprasad
Chief Security Architect
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