Published: October 1, 2024 - The Data Lead designs and operates scalable data pipelines that ingest and clean structured data for reporting, machine learning, and ad-hoc analysis, collaborating cross-functionally with data scientists and infrastructure engineers. This role involves writing efficient, testable, and reusable code, reviewing pull requests, guiding development standards, and mentoring junior data engineers. Additionally, this position drives a governance model to enhance data quality, leads data governance meetings, and educates teams on data management strategies.
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1. Data Lead, EverBright Solutions, Austin, TX
Job Summary:
- Provides expertise & ensures overall Prolink data governance, in line and compliant with Data CoE guidelines and the overall enterprise data governance program.
- Responsible for implementing data quality policies, procedures and standards in line with Global & Europe.
- Coordinates development and training of data quality best practices with operational DMOs in Bus
- Preparation and presentation in Data Workshops & follow-up on open data requirements detected in Data Integration Workshops
- Leverages the existing data quality suite (including data quality rules, processes, and tools) to monitor, report & improve data quality
- Defines and leads the implementation of data cleansing and harmonization activities – also hands-on
- Monitors data quality milestones, performance measures and executes data quality improvements
- Maintains awareness of all data-related issues
- Manages selected issues & elevates
- Reviews existing operational data (master data & transactional data) to ensure adherence with the Prolink data model and design principles
Skills on Resume:
- Data Governance Expertise (Hard Skills)
- Data Quality Management (Hard Skills)
- Training Coordination (Soft Skills)
- Workshop Facilitation (Soft Skills)
- Data Quality Monitoring (Hard Skills)
- Data Cleansing Leadership (Hard Skills)
- Performance Measurement (Hard Skills)
- Operational Data Review (Hard Skills)
2. Data Lead, Insightful Analytics, Portland, OR
Job Summary:
- Lead/Support defect fixing on JDA Data issues
- Keeps operational data owners in Business Units focused on key priorities
- Operational activities/data cleansing
- Consolidate the Data Collection Sheets from the markets, check for consistency according to the JDA rules and follow up.
- Update Data Collection Sheets template based on new functional requirements
- Weekly meeting with the markets to request Data based on Data Collection Sheet
- Review and support to the markets once they provide the Data Collection Sheet
- Sales History Analysis before Load the History to JDA
- Support Data Load for different test phases & Go Live
- Error handling analysis and coordination with the markets to solve the detected issues.
Skills on Resume:
- Defect Fixing Leadership (Hard Skills)
- Operational Data Management (Hard Skills)
- Data Cleansing Expertise (Hard Skills)
- Data Collection Consolidation (Hard Skills)
- Template Update Management (Hard Skills)
- Market Coordination (Soft Skills)
- Data Submission Review (Hard Skills)
- Sales History Analysis (Hard Skills)
3. Data Lead, ClearData Enterprises, Raleigh, NC
Job Summary:
- Build, test and operate scalable data pipelines that ingest structure and clean data into a performant and acceptable format for downstream reporting, machine learning and ad hoc analysis.
- Work cross-functionally with data scientists, infrastructure engineers and client-facing analysts to deliver data solutions
- Write testable, efficient, and reusable code suitable for continuous integration and deployment.
- Review Pull Requests and guide the development of standards and practices
- Lead and mentor junior data engineers to ensure best practices are integrated into data pipelines.
- Understand the high-level product roadmap and immediate features to be developed, contributing to high-level estimation and layout of the development sequences
- Constantly and actively contribute to pushing code to production with the objective of becoming a main contributor
- Create a governance model within the business that will improve data quality across the firm.
- Steer meetings and working groups to execute the data governance vision.
- Educate business, operations and technology teams on data governance program.
Skills on Resume:
- Data Pipeline Development (Hard Skills)
- Cross-Functional Collaboration (Soft Skills)
- Efficient Code Writing (Hard Skills)
- Pull Request Review (Hard Skills)
- Mentoring Data Engineers (Soft Skills)
- Product Roadmap Understanding (Hard Skills)
- Code Deployment (Hard Skills)
- Data Governance Creation (Hard Skills)
4. Data Lead, BluePeak Technologies, Denver, CO
Job Summary:
- Manage a portfolio of enterprise data-related initiatives
- Foster relationships with key stakeholders across the business segments, both business and IT
- Build and drive plan to improve data practices for operational, reporting and analysis needs
- Synthesize business needs across the company for priority data domains into data improvement initiatives and data governance requirements
- Drive an effective framework for prioritization
- Partner with data governance team to plan, prioritize and implement solutions to data issues and governance, providing clarity on business needs and priorities
- Work closely with IT, business application and data governance teams to expand adoption of governance framework
- Help business functions find short-term tactical workarounds to data issues to meet critical business needs while also identifying initiatives to solve the core data issue
- Build organization's understanding of data lifecycles from creation to end use, working with subject matter experts in various business functions, operations and IT teams
- Identify business processes impacting data quality and collaborate with teams to improve data quality
- Develop data quality metrics measuring status & progress toward meeting business needs
- Seek out industry best practices and incorporate relevant ideas
Skills on Resume:
- Enterprise Data Management (Hard Skills)
- Stakeholder Relationship Building (Soft Skills)
- Data Practice Improvement (Hard Skills)
- Business Needs Synthesis (Hard Skills)
- Prioritization Framework Development (Hard Skills)
- Data Governance Collaboration (Soft Skills)
- Data Issue Resolution (Soft Skills)
- Data Quality Improvement (Hard Skills)
5. Data Lead, DataFusion Systems, Tampa, FL
Job Summary:
- Monitor and schedule production task
- Update processes and procedures
- Ensure successful completion of production schedule and end-of-day procedures
- Provide day-to-day support to customer-related issues and ensure timely resolutions.
- Monitor, train and provide technical assistance to less experienced computer operators.
- Lead and assist with data control function
- Partner with internal and/or external customers on production task reporting.
- Work closely with the distribution and customer service team regarding print jobs and procedures
- Monitor and check orders, handle customer billing inquiries, update as necessary, release billing orders and distribute retail reports.
- Provide technical guidance in specialized areas of application system and software
- Process customer orders by creating log receipt of orders, contact stores for missing or late orders and release billing order and print and distribute retail labels.
- Assist with invoice review for credits and/or additional charges and perform other duties
Skills on Resume:
- Production Task Monitoring (Hard Skills)
- Process Updating (Hard Skills)
- Schedule Assurance (Hard Skills)
- Customer Issue Resolution (Soft Skills)
- Operator Training (Soft Skills)
- Data Control Leadership (Hard Skills)
- Task Reporting Partnership (Soft Skills)
- Technical Guidance (Hard Skills)
6. Data Lead, NextGen Data Solutions, Cincinnati, OH
Job Summary:
- Create an endtoend data management program from source data collection to business data visualizations and insights ensuring the security of data in storage and data in motion.
- Implement measures to ensure data accuracy and accessibility Provide handson technical support and guidance for implementing best practices and standards that enable steps toward the envisioned future state.
- Work with staff and customers to translate business requirements into data platform architectures for data warehouse design and extracttransformload (ETL) processes.
- Implement advanced data analysis, statistical analysis, and data mining capabilities.
- Collaborate closely with other groups within and outside IT Database Administration, IT Engineering, Business Analysis, and various functional units in business.
- Provide guidance to the VP and Director of IT regarding data governance best practices.
- Establish continuous learning practices for the team to keep pace with everchanging data capabilities.
- Practice industry research and rapid prototyping practices to understand and explore emerging technologies.
- Partner with technology and operations teams to implement data policy.
- Partner with business, operations and technology to build out data dictionaries and business glossaries.
- Provide oversight into data, data systems, and process improvements required to monitor and improve business data quality.
- Develop and implement a data governance scorecard covering Data Quality and Data Control.
Skills on Resume:
- Data Management Program Development (Hard Skills)
- Data Accuracy Assurance (Hard Skills)
- Technical Support (Hard Skills)
- Advanced Data Analysis (Hard Skills)
- Cross-Functional Collaboration (Soft Skills)
- Data Governance Expertise (Hard Skills)
- Continuous Learning Culture (Soft Skills)
- Data Quality Improvement (Hard Skills)
7. Data Lead, Precision Data Labs, Baltimore, MD
Job Summary:
- Provide hands-on technical support and management of the Technical Data Analysts and ensure work
- Delivered and engineering requirements met.
- Manage analyst resource capacity to meet engineering demand
- Ownership of all effort estimates for data change work requiring analyst support
- Foster collaborative partnerships with the engineering teams to refine effective ways of working
- Facilitate SCRUM ceremonies and embed ways of working within the team to align to engineering ways of working sprint/Kanban using JIRA
- Coach and mentor the team to ensure self-development objectives are met
- Support and guide engineering teams to deliver requirements from concept to final production
- Support internal change initiatives that optimize and enable the development of new data platform features
- Translate business requirements into source data requirements and then assess source data characteristics, including availability, structure and content
- Analyze and profile source data, including the application of data classifications
- Provide analysis and recommendations to drive internal change
Skills on Resume:
- Technical Support Management (Hard Skills)
- Resource Capacity Management (Hard Skills)
- Effort Estimation (Hard Skills)
- Collaboration (Soft Skills)
- SCRUM Facilitation (Hard Skills)
- Coaching (Soft Skills)
- Requirements Translation (Hard Skills)
- Data Analysis (Hard Skills)
8. Data Lead, Quantum Data Group, Kansas City, MO
Job Summary:
- Collaborate with a line of business data owners to assess, prioritize and mitigate risks that may affect business operations and regulatory compliance resulting from data quality issues
- Responds promptly to customer needs and takes a customer-centric approach to problem-solving related to data management
- Solicits customer feedback to improve service
- Response to requests for service and assistance meets commitments.
- Establish and monitor data quality efforts and provide division leadership a path to resolution of data issues and develop methods
- Monitor program or area progress and take corrective action when needed.
- Establish and Coordinate council meetings, follow up on deliverables as a result of council meetings, and provide updates to division leadership of issues that arise.
- Work with division leadership to develop and promote the adoption and implementation of data policies and data strategy.
- Participating in technical design sessions working closely with the CB Data Architect and technical teams.
- Liaising with Programme Managers to ensure critical data requirements are understood and CB domains can support the requests
Skills on Resume:
- Risk Assessment and Mitigation (Hard Skills)
- Customer-Centric Problem Solving (Soft Skills)
- Customer Feedback Solicitation (Soft Skills)
- Data Quality Management (Hard Skills)
- Progress Monitoring (Hard Skills)
- Council Meeting Coordination (Soft Skills)
- Data Policy Development (Hard Skills)
- Technical Design Participation (Hard Skills)
9. Data Lead, Synergy Insights, Minneapolis, MN
Job Summary:
- Facilitate the design, development, and maintenance of Enterprise Data Warehouse
- Lead a team to execute analytic projects including data analysis, data modeling, and data visualization reporting
- Engage with internal business groups such as digital marketing, sales, finance, IT, and other specialties to elicit requirements and analyze business goals
- Define business problems and propose solutions autonomously with limited guidance such as new technologies, tools & systems
- Proactively identify opportunity areas for deep-dive investigations
- Ensure changes to baseline requirements are effectively applied through the appropriate change control processes and tools
- Maintain version control, configuration, and defect management activities for all changes developed
- Defining and driving CB data activities across the domain, with a focus on two key priority areas – strategic data flows and reference data adoption.
- Collaborating with the CB Data Architect to define the CB Data Strategy
- Analysis of business processes and translation of specifications into domain-specific requirements.
Skills on Resume:
- Data Warehouse Design (Hard Skills)
- Team Leadership (Soft Skills)
- Requirements Elicitation (Soft Skills)
- Problem-Solving (Soft Skills)
- Proactive Analysis (Soft Skills)
- Change Control Management (Hard Skills)
- Version Control (Hard Skills)
- Collaboration on Data Strategy (Soft Skills)