Delivery Manager-Data Analytics

Overview

Job Summary:

The Delivery Manager (DM) of Data Analytics is responsible for planning, leading, organizing, budgeting and motivating teams to achieve a high level of performance and quality in delivering exceptional business value to users through Data. The DM is accountable for the delivery of all products and services in our Enterprise Data Cloud platform based on our defined Data Strategy.

The DM will be responsible for our Enterprise Data Lake and Analytics Warehouse Environments including the legacy Data Warehouse, the Snowflake Data Cloud Platform, all Data Engineering tools and reporting tools across a global implementation.

Core activities include managing multiple Information Services Managers (ISM) and their Development teams, soliciting requirements, managing direct communications with high profile customers as well as Budgeting and managing Cloud based usage spend

Additionally, the DM will be responsible for key initiatives in getting our Operating Companies BI and Data Analytics Environments into the cloud.

Responsibilities

Essential Functions:

• Provides thought leadership and direction to all aspects of products and services, and partners with Product Owners, Architecture, IS Application Teams, Operating Company BI Teams, Innovation Lab, Global Privacy Office, and Information Security Group to ensure data management roadmaps align with business strategy

• Establishes direction and clear sense of purpose to inspire teams in creating their own connection and passion to the business goals; orients others around a shared vision for Data Analytics

• Manages concurrent, high visibility products/projects/services using agile methods in a fast-paced environment that will cross teams and business divisions to drive a large-scale digital transformation for Allegis;

• Identifies risks, mitigation plans, operational readiness criteria, change management, deployment success factors, and drives deliverables for production launches

• Partners closely with the Product team to develops/maintains methods to measure value; obtains feedback to ensure that efforts are meeting expectations for value, time, cost and quality

• Maintains overarching responsibility for executing best practices approaches and methodologies (ex: Agile/ Scrum, SAFe, etc) for the support and sustainability of solutions.

Supervisory or Management Responsibility:

• Management responsibility for the team, including hiring, leadership, development and accountability for performance.

• Plans and develops people organization including but not limited to: coaching and mentoring, succession planning, proactive identification of resource gaps, etc. for a team of onshore and offshore resources

• Drives team to improve sprint velocity and speed to market

Decision Making Level:

• Establish operational/departmental objectives and goals.

• Evaluate conceptual aspects of technical designs of applications, systems and solutions to ensure sound decisions and investments are made in accordance with application architecture governance policies and standards.

• Approve plans to leverage strategic sourcing partners where appropriate.

Budget Responsibility:

• Develops and manages budget

• Produce monthly forecasts.

• Approves operational expenditures.

• Manage Cloud SaaS monthly utilization

• Determines variance of actual to forecast and take the appropriate action to correct variance.

• Shares fiscal responsibility for the organization's technology investments and future planning of the organization's spend, to avoid unnecessary and duplicative services and to maximize ROI.

• Establishes clear cost-of-service model and drives business cases for taking cost out of transactional processes through automation.

Qualifications

Minimum Education and/or Experience:

• Bachelor's degree in Information Systems, or equivalent; advanced degree desirable

• Minimum of 10 years of Information Technology experience required with a focus on Analytics and Reporting

• Minimum of 5 years of leadership experience

• Experience training and mentoring others

• Recent experience managing Data Analytics environments both on-prem and in the cloud.

• Experience with OCI, AWS, Azure and GCP Platforms

• Experience with Snowflake and Oracle Exadata

• Experience in managing on-shore and off-shore teams

• Experience in migrating data from on-prem to the cloud.

Skills/Abilities:

• Superior at building relationships, collaboration and teamwork across the local and global organizations

• Energizes others towards a global mindset

• Strong knowledge and understanding of business needs with the ability to establish/maintain a high level of customer trust and confidence

• Ability to translate/communicate complex concepts to peers and business partners

• Proficient in all phases of product/project delivery lifecycles

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills

• Strong written and verbal communication skills

• Strong technical project management and/or leadership skills including the ability to plan, organize, and steer activities

• Strong financial acumen with a sense of shareholder responsibility

• Ability to travel without restrictions (up to 20% domestic and international)

Core Competencies:

• Build relationships

• Develop people

• Lead change

• Inspire Others

• Think critically

• Communicate clearly

• Create accountability