Global People Data and Analytics Director

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What You'll Do

The People Data and Analytics Director is a senior leader within the People/HR Digital Product Team, accountable for the technical design, engineering standards and delivery capability of a team delivering robust data products and analytics tools for BCG's People/HR function. This is a hands-on strategic role: you will partner with the Product Team Lead to set product priorities, architecture decisions, manage stakeholders, and scale the People data engineering and analytics capability. You will work closely with the Product Team Leads and Technology Leads on refining the data product roadmaps and the tech data strategy across Talent Management, Talent Acquisition and Core HR domains.

This role will also serve as the delivery owner for a new Rewards Data Product. This product, part of a larger Compensation and Benefits transformation program, will be central to compliance with new EU Pay Transparency legislation, while also delivering new insights into BCG's global compensation landscape, influencing strategic direction.

You will:

• Set the technical strategy, architecture and engineering standards for People data analytics products and the People Data & Tech target operating model. Lead the skill chapters - chapter leads, architects, data engineers, and visualization analysts.
• Continue to learn and adapt new AI/Gen AI based tools to improve productivity, adopt new standards and drive innovation and productivity.
• Drive platform decisions for the modern data stack (data warehouse / curated data marts, ETL, CI/CD for data pipelines, observability, access controls, analytics tools).
• Steward existing technical artefacts and decisions into a secure, scalable production state.
• Partner closely with Data Governance experts to ensure data quality, effective monitoring, adequate controls and compliance.
• Manage the end-to-end technical delivery across all phases/lifecycle of product/program roadmaps
• Work closely with key stakeholders to understand business problems and surface technology options to address those problems - including experimenting with emerging technologies
• Apply Agile software development methodologies and principles
• Oversee technical architecture, tooling, platforms & systems in coordination with Enterprise Architecture, and ensuring compliance with standards and guardrails
• Collaborate with other enterprise teams on UX design, security best practices, cloud and platform engineering
• Lead technical analysis of new tooling and platforms

• Drive release management and automation best practices

• Ensure proper root cause analysis and remediation is executed during any incidents or outages

• Work with vendors to augment team capacity and knowledge

What You'll Bring

You have a bachelor's degree and preferably an advanced degree. You have experience working in a global team, across cultures and time zones. You have extensive experience delivering enterprise data products and leading technical engineering teams, plus hands-on experience with cloud data platforms (e.g. Snowflake, Tableau) and modern data stack patterns (data modelling, ETL, data pipelines). You have excellent communication skills and the ability to influence. You are familiar with agile processes and willing to support others to make it real.

Who You'll Work With

This role is part of the People Data and Analytics team and will partner closely with the team's senior director, who brings a focus on business needs and strategy. The role will also work closely with the Compensation transformation program team, including the PMO, program sponsors and workstream leads. In addition, close collaboration is expected with HR and Data Product Teams, other functions (e.g. Finance, Risk, etc), Data Governance, and Architecture.

Additional info

YOU'RE GOOD AT

To be successful, you should bring sound development and program leadership experience leveraging technologies to drive technical governance, innovation, integrations, and cloud-oriented strategies and innovation via Gen AI.

Ideally, you thrive in a work environment that requires strong problem solving, analytical and decision-making skills, independent self-direction, coupled with an aptitude for collaboration and open communication.

This involves:

• Thought leadership in technology innovation and transformation
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills with strong emphasis towards collaborative and creative problem-solving and ability to navigate ambiguous situations effectively Strong technical expertise in data ingestion, transformation and analytics techniques and tools (e.g., DBT, Airflow, Python, Snowflake, Tableau), along with a solid understanding of emerging market trends in the data analytics space.
• Clearly articulating complex technical concepts to functional and technical stakeholders in simplistic ways
• Proven ability to actively work with and influence senior business and technology stakeholdersHigh level of initiative, self-motivation, resourcefulness and collaboration
• Working well independently as well as part of a team, with a hands-on approach
• You enjoy going into depth of the technical details and resolving technical problems while maintaining an overall end to end perspective
• Building relationships and being a reliable team player, displaying consideration and respect for others
• Performing successfully in a fast-paced, multi-cultural and service-oriented environment
• Interpreting rules and guidelines flexibly to enhance the business and aligning with BCG's values and culture
• Exhibiting ownership and accountability for self and driving the behavior in the team
• Attention to detail, being well organized, and able to set priorities and take decisions
• Being curious and willing to upskill continuously with evolving technology
• Being flexible to be available outside of normal business hours for international calls as needed

Boston Consulting Group is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, age, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity / expression, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected under national, provincial, or local law, where applicable, and those with criminal histories will be considered in a manner consistent with applicable state and local laws.
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