Data Capability Leader

We are the leading provider of professional services to the middle market globally, our purpose is to instill confidence in a world of change, empowering our clients and people to realize their full potential. Our exceptional people are the key to our unrivaled, culture and talent experience and our ability to be compelling to our clients. You’ll find an environment that inspires and empowers you to thrive both personally and professionally. There’s no one like you and that’s why there’s nowhere like RSM.**Data Capability Leader**The **Data Capability Leader** is a strategic and operational leader responsible for architecting and driving data capability within the Digital Solutions group. The Data Capability Leader will lead and evolve the data team within the firm’s Digital Solutions organization, ensuring a team strategy that proactively aligns with business objectives and 18-month rolling roadmaps. This leader will ensure the data function delivers high-quality, innovative, and standard-driven solutions that support business objectives in an Agile SAFe environment. This leader will create an environment where data professionals thrive – combining technical excellence with a culture of continuous learning, collaboration, and innovation. The Data leader will be responsible for planning and defining the information structure of the enterprise in collaboration with the Data Strategy team. This includes collaborating on and leading the creation of the living data architecture, practice standards, processes and governance. They will lead the team to design the data master blueprints to meet the technical and business needs within the context of all enterprise architecture and the connections with information systems, technologies and business solutions. They are responsible for defining and implementing an enterprise and business aligned data architecture strategy and delivering data design to meet those needs based on business and IT requirements. The ideal candidate will have deep experience building high-performing data teams, managing both complex enterprise engineering and low-code/no-code solutions, and fostering a culture of technical excellence, agility and innovation. The role requires balancing hands-on technical credibility with strong leadership and developing people's skills. The role demands visionary leadership, fostering a culture of collaboration, innovation, and continuous improvement, while building robust processes and accountability mechanisms that enable predictable, efficient, and high-quality delivery across all digital initiatives. The Data Capability Leader is accountable for achieving success metrics, setting discipline expectations, and holding the team to the highest standards of quality and delivery.**ESSENTIAL DUTIES:****Organizational and People Leadership*** Create and execute a comprehensive talent strategy for the data discipline, ensuring optimal skill mix, clear roles, and progressive career paths to support enterprise delivery needs and proactively align with 18-month rolling roadmaps.* Provide significant technical expertise, experience and authority over firm Data, Information Architecture and data flow in all firm technology, including but not exclusive to SQL Databases, Microsoft, Mobile and Cloud Platforms.* Support planning processes to understand business goals and align future development goals and strategies* Recruit, build, and inspire a diverse and high-performing team of developers with the right capability mix for the firm’s evolving portfolio. This includes fostering career growth through mentoring and continuous learning* Build and maintain a balanced mix of skills across full-stack, integration, cloud, and low-code platforms* Build and maintain development competency frameworks and targeted training programs that drive excellence in Agile delivery and provide accelerated growth for early-career and mid-level developers* Cultivate a collaborative, learning-oriented culture that values efficiency, innovation, and quality.* Mentor and empower high-performing teams**Process and Standards Management*** Define and execute the development strategy aligned with the firm’s Digital Solutions vision and SAFe framework* Ensure standardized Agile and SAFe practices across all developments, ensuring consistency in ceremonies, tools and performance measures* Implement governance and quality control mechanisms to uphold high delivery standards across products, projects, and programs.* Partner with Solution Architecture, QA, BA, and Operations capability leaders to ensure end-to-end delivery efficiency and consistency.**Operational Efficiency and Tooling*** Lead the team to build Enterprise models and demonstrate effective data integration between specific and enterprise applications.* Collaborate with business strategy in the design of the enterprise data strategy* Lead the deployment of the organization of the data architecture practices* Collaborate with application teams and other technology project teams to help deploy and develop architectural design and identify enterprise impacts* Lead the definition of architectural principles, patterns, guidelines and standards* Lead and hold the team accountable for identifying and implementing opportunities to streamline delivery workflows through AI, automation, and modern delivery tools.* Oversee data activities across multiple Agile teams, ensuring predictable delivery and adherence to SAFe principles* Evaluate and deploy emerging technologies that enhance productivity, accuracy, and cross-disciplinary collaboration.* Implement metrics and maturity models to assess and continually improve the capabilities' effectiveness**Agile Delivery Enablement*** Champion continuous improvement across Agile ceremonies, backlog refinement, and quality gates* Proactively remove systemic impediments that hinder efficiency or slow delivery cycles* Quality and Continuous Improvement* Provide innovative leadership with evolving data management trends and data models, developing and maintaining data management standards, roadmaps, strategies and governance based on industry trends.* Establish and track KPIs and metrics to measure discipline performance, including throughput, quality, and automation adoption* Foster a culture of built-in quality and technical excellence, ensuring solutions meet current and future business needs.**Stakeholder Engagement and Communication*** Serve as a key liaison between capability leaders and portfolio teams to ensure alignment of delivery objectives with organizational strategy* Communicate progress, risks, and opportunities with clarity and transparency, enabling informed decision-making at all levels**Other duties as assigned.****QUALIFICATIONS:****EDUCATION*** Bachelor's degree in information technology, Computer Science, or related field**TECHNICAL SKILLS*** Deep expertise in cloud platforms such as Azure, API management frameworks and data architecture.* Experience in Microsoft SQL, Enterprise Data and Information Architecture, Data Warehousing, and Big Data* Understanding of Agile and SAFe concepts, including solution intent, enablers, system architect roles and architectural runway* Strong technical foundation in enterprise architecture, integration, and modern development stacks* Strong experience with enterprise platforms, integrations, data, complex custom build and buy and extend solutions* Experience with low-code platforms* Strong grasp of cybersecurity, compliance, and governance requirements for enterprise systems**SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS SPECIFIC TO JOB*** Strategic thinker able to align delivery capability with measurable business outcomes* Collaborative mindset with a commitment to continuous learning, lean thinking and incremental improvement* Proven success in reducing bottlenecks* Demonstrated maturity of an organization’s data capabilities through metrics, #J-18808-Ljbffr Rsm Us Llp.