Senior Director, Data and Analytics
About The Position
The Senior Director, Data and Analytics will co-lead the enterprise data and analytics function, responsible for the platforms, engineering, integration, governance, and operating model that enable trusted, scalable insights across the company. This role is a key leader in a multi year global SAP S 4HANA program and will also own the maturation of Microsoft Fabric and the company’s lakehouse strategy with OneLake. The role is IT led and business partnered, helping business units adopt a consistent model where IT delivers governed, reusable data foundations while enabling trained business report writers to build and maintain domain reporting in partnership with the central team. This is a new role reporting to the SVP, IT Application Development, Data and Analytics and will partner closely with IT, Supply Chain, Sales, the SAP program PMO, and business analytics leaders.
Requirements
- 10+ years of progressive leadership in enterprise data and analytics, including data engineering, BI, governance, and platform strategy.
- Experience building governance operating models, including councils, stewardship, decision rights, and quality programs.
- Expertise in enterprise data architecture including Microsoft Fabric, OneLake, SAP Datasphere, Business Data Cloud (BDC), Analytics Cloud (SAC), BW4/Hana and SAP S/4HANA integration.
- Comfort leading mixed teams with significant contractor and consultant delivery.
Responsibilities
- Lead the enterprise lakehouse strategy on Microsoft Fabric and OneLake, including architecture, engineering standards, security, performance, cost management, and platform reliability.
- Own the centralized data pipeline approach for ingestion, transformation, and modeled data sets that can be reused across domains.
- Drive platform standards across Power BI and GitHub, including development workflows, version control practices, and repeatable release processes.
- Define the enterprise reporting and analytics strategy for S 4, including what is delivered through SAP versus Fabric, and how semantic models and enterprise KPIs will be governed.
- Lead KPI definition alignment, data validation processes, and program level controls required for delivery, compliance, and operational readiness.
- Partner tightly with the SAP program PMO and domain teams to ensure data and analytics deliverables remain on plan and meet quality expectations.
- Establish and lead the enterprise data governance council and operating cadence.
- Create a clear data stewardship strategy in partnership with business leaders, including stewardship roles, decision rights, and accountability.
- Stand up a data quality program with measurable SLAs, monitoring, and remediation workflows across critical data domains.
- Act as an executive level evangelist for the data and analytics strategy, explaining the central team structure, how it works, and how it benefits each department.
- Lead a mixed team of employees and contractors and drive high accountability delivery across engineering, integration, governance, and analytics.
- Set clear engineering expectations for quality, documentation, testing, and operational excellence.
- Build a high performance culture focused on execution, coaching, and continuous improvement.
- Scale delivery capacity through program contractors and consultants for SAP S 4, while maintaining standards and consistency across all workstreams.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Director
Education Level
No Education Listed
