About this role:
Gartner IT- Chief Data & Analytics team is currently seeking an exceptional leader responsible for driving the development and execution of DA capabilities to meet business evolving needs.
This role involves managing data analytics teams, implementing best practices, and ensuring data is effectively used to support business goals.
What you will do:
- Provide strategic and operational leadership for high performing Data and Analytics Engineering teams, with a focus on delivering scalable, high impact solutions aligned to business priorities.
- Own the delivery and evolution of secure, scalable data integration models closely partnering with business leaders an IT stakeholders to ensure
- Champion and fully adopt agile practice across the teams, ensuring teams constantly apply agile best practice across delivery cycle.
- Drive multi-year Enterprises data initiatives by collaborating across cross-functional teams to ensure successfully outcomes
- Monitor and analyze delivery metrics, using KPIs and OKRs to identify improvement opportunities and optimize engineering processes.
- Effectively communicate technical concepts, influence decision-making, and build consensus among stakeholders.
- Manage, mentor, and scale both offshore and onshore data and analytics teams, ensuring high-quality output, collaboration and alignment to enterprise goals.
- Ability to influence senior stakeholders and build effective working relationships across business units and lines of defense
What you will need:
- Bachelors degree (BA/BS) in Computer Science, Engineering, IT, or a related field with 11+ years of industry experience.
- Strong leadership skills in the areas of communication, collaboration, talent development, and stakeholder relationships.
- Extensive experience in data and analytics engineering, with a focus on building scalable, reliable, and efficient data pipelines and platforms.
- Hands-on experience with modern data engineering tools and frameworks such as Azure data factory, azure synapse, and DevOps.
- Technical expertise in modern data integration approaches, including event-driven architecture, batch processing, and data streaming.
- Proven track record to lead technical teams in resolving complex data integration and analytics challenges
- Experience in BI development using tools such as Power BI, Tableau, or equivalent.
- Exceptional problem-solving ability, with a mindset for innovation and continuous improvement.
- Strong data analytical skills, including SQL, query optimization, and prompt-writing
- Demonstrated ability to develop and deliver compelling executive-level presentations. Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to effectively convey complex concepts and analyses in a clear and accessible manner. Strong influencing skills to achieve alignment across technology teams.
- Leadership skills to mentor and guide a team of data engineers and analytics engineers in their daily tasks.
- Exceptional people management skills with an emphasis on mentoring.
- Strong foundation in application architecture and software development.
- Conduct design and code reviews, ensuring best practices are followed by the team.
- Significant experience in Agile/Kanban or Scaled Agile Frameworks.
Who you are:
- A technology focused Leader with hands on coding experience in relevant technologies
- Excellent communication skills.
- Builds great Teams
- Owns success Takes responsibility for the successful delivery of the solutions.
- Ability to work and collaborate with a team.
- Ability to learn and apply new technologies
- Project work delivered on time within budget
- All work products are delivered with high quality