H-E-B ยท 5 days ago
Principal Data Governance Leader (Austin, San Antonio or Dallas)
Dallas, TX
Full-time
Onsite
Lead/Staff
12+ years expH-E-B is a leading omnichannel retailing company focused on enhancing customer digital experiences. The Principal Data Governance Leader will lead and mentor teams in data governance, ensuring robust data management practices while influencing strategic decisions at the executive level.
Retail
Responsibilities
Leads the application of existing principles and guides development of new ideas
Provides unprecedented or future solutions that affect several departments
Requires direct communication with executive leadership on matters of strategic importance
Develops and implements new products, processes, standards, or operations plans that will have significant impact on the achievement of functional results
Creates formal networks with key decision makers and widely recognized as expert and thought leader by both internal and external community
Exercises wide latitude in determining objectives and approaches to critical assignments
'Evangelizes' new ideas / technologies / solutions to gain acceptance from a wide range of audiences
Contributes regularly to high impact, boundary crossing efforts throughout H-E-B as needed
Broad visibility into the wider organization and participates where needed without prompting
Ability to move between organizations and projects effectively
Participates in efforts, both strategic and technical, works collaboratively and cross-functionally to remove roadblocks
Participates in executive leadership level discussions and initiatives, including VP and above
Participates where needed without prompting or request
Can identify needs in completely unrelated areas through information gathering and keeping on the wider pulse of the broader organization
Drives own workload in the most critically needed areas of H-E-B
Organizational insights are inclusive of all (within reason) critical areas of H-E-B
Can use personal understanding of relationships and personalities involved to determine what important topics aren't being talked about in meetings, and drive those conversations effectively to ensure success of efforts
Factors in each team's capabilities and ability to deliver when delivering a larger solution. Where capability is lacking, provides support or guidance to choose an effective strategy
Understands larger H-E-B business objectives, the largest company risks, and is able to use that information to ensure personal involvement and influence in those critical areas
Serves recommendations to larger organizations and efforts that are based on data and evidence, while factoring in personal experience
Regularly gathers relevant data and insights to help determine areas of focus and priority (both team and personal)
Teaches others to think and operate through data and evidence
Uses metrics and data to help others be successful in their strategies
Leads through influence without direct authority
Operates and communicates with executive presence and maturity in approach with a focus on influencing others. Excellent communication skills that are based in empathy and kindness, while not losing the directness required
Ability to influence at a VP and above level across organizational boundaries
Ability to influence technology partners and teams across organizational boundaries
Builds influence by building trust across H-E-B organization through vulnerability, authenticity, competence and delivery
Confident in own recommendations that are backed by data, but encourages others to challenge
Clearly communicates own limitations and able to redirect to other more helpful resources when needed. Uses this as an opportunity to lean on others to learn
Uses failures as opportunities to influence and teach
Does not keep best ideas to self, help others be successful and shine a spotlight on them, with benefit of growing own influence. Be known as someone who, when engaged, will ensure success of everyone involved
Effective at influencing leaders to think beyond personal bias(technology, org structure, team processes, etc.) and to focus on business/effort success
Spends a good mix of time coding in critical areas across multiple projects, as well as providing guidance and informal leadership in different areas of the organization
Ability to flex and shift time spent to only the most impactful areas. Able to reflect and rebalance time management based on personal and other factors
Ability to participate (through own efforts, or through others) in multiple critical efforts that span multiple teams
Can easily shift between the role that is needed from them at the time (leadership, influence, coding, architect, etc.)
Works through others more than personally delivering
Ensures team and effort success by looking at larger picture and providing coaching and recommendations
Takes ownership and responsibility for challenges or failures that occur, then turns that into strategy or solutions to resolve the issue. Uses these opportunities as educational to grow team capabilities
Brings humanity to each engagement, navigating difficult conversations and building alignment while still being effective
Ability to look at a larger landscape or challenge and identify the areas that require further investigation or focus
Ability to look at organizational level efforts that span multiple teams, and not only identify the risks/gaps in the tech approach, but in the team and business approach
Can construct and present an approach or document that brings everyone to a shared understanding of an accurate view of current efforts, business needs, realities, processes & technology so that different teams or leaders can solution from the same starting point
Ability to determine the urgency of an effort and factor that into the plans
Ability to articulate the deeper and more nuanced landscape of our business and how it impacts the goals and outcomes that are being sought by a large technology initiative
Ability to build maps / plans that will help navigate unexpected challenges, and help turn unknown unknowns into known knowns
Ability to create a vision when needed that helps navigate large to extreme complexity efforts to success
Effectively articulate and communicate the vision to both leadership and team members
Builds a technology strategy that achieves the goals of a technology/business vision using established patterns
Creates tech strategies are robust, reliable, observable and based on modern accepted best practices that reduce engineer toil and maintenance
Ability to plan end to end efforts, including participating/building in rollout and release strategies that reduce risk and pain to our business
Ability to factor in urgency into planning a strategy, but also able to defend and express where time must be invested to ensure long term success and maintainability of the systems that are being built
Qualification
Required
12+ years of experience in Data Management, Data Governance, or Enterprise Architecture
Proven track record of defining data roadmaps and standing up enterprise-level governance programs
Expert knowledge in Data Modeling, Master Data Management (MDM), and Data Lineage
Deep understanding of data privacy laws in US and global (GDPR, CCPA) and risk management frameworks
Familiarity with cloud-native data stacks (e.g., Snowflake, Databricks, AWS Glue, Databricks, Unity Catalog, Google stack) and AI/ML governance
Exceptional ability to translate complex technical/data risks into business terms for senior leadership
Bachelors' degree or equivalent experience or comparable formal training, certification, or work experience
Extensive experience successfully producing consistent, high-quality results
Deep understanding of the Data Management Body of Knowledge (DAMA-DMBOK)
Experience with Enterprise Data Catalogs and Governance platforms (e.g., Collibra, Alation, Informatica, or Microsoft Purview)
Expertise in GDPR, CCPA, BCBS 239, or similar data privacy/sovereignty laws
Ability to define business glossaries, data dictionaries, and automated lineage
Benefits
Once you're eligible, you'll become an Owner in the company
Company
H-E-B
H-E-B is headquartered in San Antonio, Texas with approximately $46 billion in revenue and 160,000+ Partners.
10001+ employees
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