Director of Data Engineering

03 Dec 2024

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Title: Senior Director of Data EngineeringLocation: Columbus, Ohio

Job Summary
The Senior Director of Data Engineering is responsible for providing strategic direction of overall Data Modernization and will lead the Design, Development, Implementation, Maintenance and Governance of the Data Engineering organization to facilitate the provisioning of high quality data across the Enterprise. This Leader must have a comprehensive background including most aspects of system architecture, data modeling, data migration and management, security, application development, and other skills required to build, deliver, improve, maintain, and operate a comprehensive data environment.

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Essential Roles and Responsibilities
  • Provide strategic direction on data modernization, governance, master data and data quality initiatives. Maximize business value using data as a strategic asset.
  • In partnership with the IT Leadership, implement the QH Data and Analytics Strategy.
  • Drive priorities for the team by establishing a clear roadmap and ensure alignment among all stakeholders.
  • Consistently strive for enabling modern data tools / technologies and showcase willingness to take calculated risk.
  • Take ownership of technical data solutions to ensure delivery of superior products/services from discovery to deployment.
  • Take ownership of implementing data assets in the Cloud including but not limited to Data Lake, Data Warehouses and other Cloud storage mechanisms.
  • Manage a wide range of overlapping projects, set budgets, schedules and milestones for the data team to meet aggressive business deliverables in a timely fashion.
  • Build internal expertise in cloud architectures, data security, data lake and associated analytical tools or applications.
  • Recruit and retain a strong, diverse, mission driven data team.
  • Work with vendors and partners, negotiate deals that serve and protect the enterprise’s best and long-term data interests.
  • Steer the data engineering function and organization forward by engaging with other high-level decision makers within and outside of the IT organization.
  • Maintain a pulse on cutting-edge technologies and be open to aligning with the ever-changing data and technology landscape.
  • Provide oversight / guidance related to data issues needing technical or systems expertise.
  • Budget and vendor management related tasks.
  • Manage direct reports, good department morale, creating and updating individual development plans, and partner with HR to develop a best in class data function.
  • Work with non-IT business units to ensure technical solutions align with business objectives.
  • Oversee all data efforts in support of client Implementations.
  • Oversee all data quality initiatives.
  • Provide effective resolution for escalated data related issues with our customers/data partners.

Skills and Qualifications
  • 20+ years of proven progressive experience in Data Engineering, Data Governance/Quality and Business Intelligence solutions with their Architectures, Design, Development and Implementation.
  • At-least 4 years of experience with Cloud Databases, Snowflake, NoSQL Databases, Streaming Data preferably in the AWS Cloud environment.
  • Advanced certifications in Cloud / Big Data to strategically position data as an enterprise asset and supporting ongoing insights adoption for an always fresh, forward-thinking operational mindset.
  • Maintains in-depth knowledge of data best practices, technologies, architectures and emerging data technologies along with their potential application to existing or future offerings.
  • Experience with operationalizing and optimizing Enterprise Data Governance frameworks.
  • Experience leading cloud migration projects, Data Lake Implementations on one or more highly distributed / massively parallel systems such as Hadoop, AWS or Azure.
  • Experience implementing data solutions to enable the organization unlock insights on structured and unstructured data sets.
  • Familiarity with cloud data encryption, tokenization to protect data at rest and in-motion.
  • Familiarity with modern AI / ML technologies to be able to “connect the dots” using various cloud native services.
  • 5+ years of experience in a healthcare data engineering environment strongly preferred.
  • Familiarity with Medical and Pharmaceutical Claims adjudication processes strongly preferred.
  • Deep understanding of standardization, integration and error handling with data integration processes.
  • Ability to accurately develop data integration and data repository build components of a solution.
  • Must be an evangelist to help company become more sophisticated in its use of data and helping create a data-informed culture.
  • Must be a thought-leader, change catalyst and outside the box thinker who consistently strives for best possible outcomes.
  • Strong vendor management and solution integrator / partner relationship building skills to identify and leverage resources for successful execution of projects.
  • Strong communication, mentoring / coaching skills and influencing/leadership skills.
  • Executive communication skills, ability to interact effectively with C-Suite level leadership.
  • Strong listening and consultative skills and ability to negotiate and influence.
  • Lead by example by pushing innovative solutions in the data & analytics space.
  • Excellent analytical, problem solving and troubleshooting abilities.

The Vernovis Difference:Vernovis offers Health, Dental, Vision, Voluntary Short & Long Term Disability, Voluntary Life Insurance, 401K, Holiday Pay and Bonus Pay to you.Join our collaborative work environment so that we can all do our best work and learn from each other. Our core values fuel our decisions and guide our actions:Integrity – an uncompromising commitment to honesty and strong moral principles.Collaboration – a reliance on openness, knowledge sharing, focus and accountability to achieve shared goals.Extraordinary Service – a fundamental belief that we are in business to serve both clients and candidates in ways that exceed their expectations. Vernovis does not accept inquiries from Corp to Corp recruiting companies. Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis and not violate any immigration or discrimination laws.Vernovis provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, sex, national origin, age, citizenship, disability, veteran status, or any other protected status.

  • ID: #23785535
  • State: Ohio Columbus 43085 Columbus USA
  • City: Columbus
  • Salary: Depends on Experience
  • Job type: Permanent
  • Showed: 2021-12-03
  • Deadline: 2022-01-31
  • Category: Art/media/design