Kennesaw State University · 2 weeks ago
Associate Director, Enterprise Data Platforms
Kennesaw, GA
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level, Lead/Staff, Director/Executive
7+ years expKennesaw State University is one of the 50 largest public institutions in the country, offering a vibrant culture and numerous academic opportunities. The Associate Director of Enterprise Data Platforms will lead the university's data infrastructure and integration services, ensuring reliable and optimized platforms for institutional reporting and analytics while providing managerial oversight and technical expertise.
Education
Responsibilities
Provides strategic and operational leadership for enterprise data infrastructure services, balancing technical execution with managerial responsibility for staff and service delivery
Administers and optimizes unified data platforms such as Microsoft Fabric, including capacity management, performance monitoring and optimization, technical governance, and access management
Builds and operates standardized data ingestion pipelines with metadata capture, schema enforcement, error handling, and secure storage, ensuring all source data is ingested once and made consistently available for downstream processing
As applicable, designs and maintains reusable data preparation processes (e.g., standardization, simple deduplication, schema checks, optimization) that are performed once centrally to ensure consistent, high-quality inputs for downstream processes
Manages legacy data platforms such as SAS (SAS 9, SAS Grid, Viya) and/or Tableau, ensuring reliability, security, and performance
Provides infrastructure and operational support for legacy ETL processes, as well as system-wide data processes, such as the ADC (USG Academic Data Collection)
Ensures data infrastructure services comply with institutional governance, privacy, and security policies, and applicable regulations such as FERPA, HIPAA, and PCI
Monitors performance and implement proactive measures for scalability, efficiency, and reliability
Collaborates with university stakeholders to align data infrastructure strategy is aligned with reporting, analytics, and compliance needs
Develops and supervises staff through mentoring, professional growth opportunities, training, performance management, and knowledge sharing
Evaluates emerging technologies and recommend adoption of tools that advance data, analytics, and integration capabilities
Fosters a culture of curiosity and innovation, continuous process improvement, ownership and accountability, building repeatable solutions, learning, and data-informed decision making
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's degree from an accredited institution of higher education
Seven (7) years of related IT experience
Preferred
An advanced degree from an accredited institution of higher education in a related field
Previous experience with Microsoft Fabric or Microsoft Synapse Analytics, including platform administration and data pipeline development
Experience working in higher education IT environments
Hands-on experience building automation solutions with tools such as Power Automate, Power Apps, and Decisions (BPA)
Hands-on experience designing and building system integration
Experience designing and building integration services using iPaaS platforms such as Boomi or MuleSoft
Company
Kennesaw State University
Kennesaw State University is a public, coeducational, comprehensive university located in Kennesaw, Georgia
1001-5000 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$0.31MKey Investors
National Cemetery Administration
2024-06-17Grant· $0.31M
2022-03-02Grant
Leadership Team
Anna Bilyeu
Educational Technology Specialist/Project Lead with KSU iTeach
Steven Smalt
Accounting Professor
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