Director, IT - Enterprise Data & Integrations

Title:  Director, IT - Enterprise Data & Integrations

Location:  Des Moines, IA

Job Summary:

As a Director in the Enterprise Data and Integrations team, you will play a pivotal role in shaping and implementing the data and integration strategy for our organization. You will be responsible for leading a team of technology managers and engineers to ensure the seamless flow and accessibility of data across various systems, applications, and business units. The ideal candidate will bring a strong cloud data technical background, proven ability effectively lead delivery teams, and leadership skills to drive the success of our data and integration initiatives.

Responsibilities:

Strategic Leadership

• Contribute to future state technology road map definitions and make recommendations to ensure effective investments are made to enable scale, quality, maintenance and overall cost effectiveness.
• Regularly assess and quantify the effectiveness of the team’s technical capabilities and take prompt action to close gaps.
• Collaborate with senior leadership and business stakeholders to define and prioritize data-related initiatives that support business growth and efficiency.
• Communicate effectively with technical and non-technical stakeholders to ensure alignment on data and integration initiatives.
• Collaborate on and implement robust data architecture and governance frameworks to ensure data quality, security, and compliance.
• Stay current on industry trends and the use of emerging technologies that can contribute business value to their area helping to instill an engineering culture within the organization.
• Budget and manage financial plans as directed, while maintaining an awareness of industry benchmarks to serve as a basis of comparison.

Delivery and Execution

• Lead teams responsible for the design, implementation and management of scalable data solutions for ingesting, transforming, and storing diverse data sets from various sources into our data infrastructure.
• Lead engineering teams delivering data needs aligned to key project initiatives for the organization.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to identify and address Enterprise Data needs across the organization.
• Provide engineering guidance to delivery teams to ensure effective designs for data solutions, with an emphasis on speed, scalability, reliability and effective cost management.
• Partner with the Architecture team to review and approve new solution designs.
• Ensure enforcement of standards and best practices is integrated into data solution delivery.
• Effectively manage detailed resource plans, forecasts and expertise needs of internal and external resources; contribute to planning of strategic skill mix decisions.
• Provide periodic leadership updates on delivery status of key initiatives.

Team Management

• Lead, mentor, and inspire a high-performing team of data engineers, integration specialists, and data analysts.
• Foster a culture of collaboration, innovation, and continuous learning within the team.
• Identify, hire, and retain high performing individuals.
• Work with individuals to establish development plans that align to individual career goals as well as organizational needs.
• Direct teams and provide leadership guidance in the troubleshooting and analysis of operational issues to seek prompt resolution.
• Manage vendor relationships on an operational/project level, ensuring effective integration into overall IT capabilities.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
• 10 years in a technology leadership role overseeing data and integration functions.
• Expert knowledge of cloud data architecture, governance, and integration technologies.
• Experience leading teams following the Agile Scrum framework.
• Experience in the insurance or financial services industry is a plus.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to balance strategic thinking with hands-on execution.
• Due to the financial nature and level of accountability of this position, a credit and criminal background check is required - The Fair Credit Reporting Act requires Sammons Financial Group Companies to notify you that, as a routine part of processing this application for employment, Sammons Financial Group may request a consumer report on you to verify all information contained in this application. Such report may include information about work-related behaviors, performance, character, general reputation, and personal characteristics, in addition to information about your previous employment, education, credit history and criminal records

At this time, we’re not considering candidates that need any type of immigration sponsorship now or in the future or those needing work authorization for this role (This includes, but is not limited to students on F1-OPT, F1-CPT, J-1, etc.)