Director, Data Center of Excellence

Role Description

• Enterprise Data Architecture & Strategy
  • Architecture Ownership: Own, evolve, and scale the enterprise data architecture supporting all product verticals.
  • Operational Standards: Establish standards, best practices, and repeatable patterns for data ingestion, transformation, and consumption.
  • Roadmap Alignment: Align data strategy directly with internal product roadmaps, engineering timelines, and advanced client analytics needs.
• Data Migration Leadership
  • Planning & Design: Define data migration scopes, constraints, historical requirements, and success criteria.
  • Design data mapping, transformation, enrichment, validation, and rollback protocols.
  • Partner with stakeholders to establish testing cycles, cutover plans, and client approvals.
  • Execution & Delivery: Oversee extraction, transformation, and loading (ETL) into test, UAT, and production environments.
  • Lead iterative migration cycles, resolve technical anomalies, and manage post-migration hypercare/remediation.
  • Deliver comprehensive migration completion documentation and client sign-offs.
• Momentive IQ Data Services & Consulting
  • Data Readiness: Assess source data usability; cleanse, normalize, and de-duplicate data sets to make them analytics-ready.
  • Custom Analytics & BI: Translate complex business objectives into custom dashboards, defining metrics, visualizations, filters, and refresh cadences.
  • Strategy Consulting: Advise clients on data collection methodologies (timing, frequency, automation) and practical data governance/stewardship operating frameworks.
• Premium Offerings, Commercialization, & Insights
  • Help define, manage, and mature the delivery workflows and quality standards associated with the Company’s AI Analytics subscription service offerings.
  • Prescriptive Analytics: Operationalize benchmarking frameworks and peer-group analysis, translating data into executive-ready insights for priority customer segments.
  • Service Commercialization: Track measurable client outcomes to develop case studies; partner with Product, Marketing, and Sales to support go-to-market and thought-leadership activities.
• Third-Party Integrations & Agentic AI
  • Integration Roadmap: Scope, prioritize, and support deal-driven integrations with third-party platforms to enhance workflow analytics.
  • Agentic Capabilities: Contribute to the creation, refinement, and client-facing alignment of agentic roles and AI-enabled capabilities.
• Organizational Leadership & Legacy Client Continuity
  • Org Design: Build out the core Data Strategy & Services operating models, documentation standards, and prioritization frameworks.
  • Legacy Continuity: Maintain high-level Project Manager/Customer Engagement continuity for designated legacy accounts (requirements definition, risk management, internal coordination) during the initial transition framework.
  • Lead the creation and execution of cross-functional and cross-product data best practices.

Qualifications

• Professional Experience: 7+ years of progressive leadership experience in Data Architecture, Enterprise Analytics, Business Intelligence, or Data Strategy.
• Migration Domain Expertise: Demonstrated success in structuring and executing complex enterprise data migrations and third-party software integrations.
• Consulting Background: Previous client-facing professional services or premium data consulting experience is highly preferred.
• Education: Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Data Science, Computer Science, Information Systems, Business Administration, or an equivalent technical field.
• Data management or governance certifications (e.g., DAMA‑CDMP).

Requirements

• Advanced Technology Literacy: Strategic understanding of BI tools, ETL architectures, cloud compliance, and modern agentic AI applications.
• Cross-Functional Influence: Proven ability to partner dynamically across Product, Engineering, Sales, and Customer Success silos to operationalize data products and services.
• Executive Communication: Exceptional communication, stakeholder management, and narrative-building skills capable of translating complex analytics into clear business actions.

Benefits

• Medical, Dental & Vision Benefits
• 401(k) Savings Plan with Company Match
• Flexible Planned Paid Time Off
• Generous Sick Leave
• Inclusive & Welcoming Environment
• Purpose-Driven Culture
• Work-Life Balance
• Commitment to Community Involvement
• Employer-Paid Parental Leave
• Employer-Paid Short-Term Disability
• Remote Work Flexibility