Job Title: Data & Analytics Senior Manager
Location: Pune, Maharashtra
Job Type: Full time
Job Summary: The Data & Analytics Senior Manager is responsible to provide technical leadership to the department's build and operations activities, ensuring efficient and effective delivery to support business decision-making. This role involves managing resources, developing and implementing strategies, and ensuring the alignment of initiatives with business and organization goals.
Mandatory requirement : Azure technologies understanding and has preferably led an Azure data and analytics team
Key Responsibilities:
- Leadership and Management:
- Lead and manage the team, providing guidance, training, and support to ensure high performance and professional development.
- Mentor high impact leadership teams.
- Build and maintain employee morale and motivation.
- Manage hiring and development of team, provide performance reviews, pay increase and ensure consistent application of organization policies.
- Stay up to date with industry trends and emerging technologies, and its impact on data & analytics strategies.
- Encourage an innovative, problem-solving culture within the team.
- Strategic Planning:
- Develop and implement data & analytics strategies that align with the company's business objectives and goals.
- Act as key advisor to IT leadership, providing insights and recommendations on emerging technologies and trends.
- Comply with architectural principles and industry/organization standards, company policies, industry regulations and best practices.
- Promote culture of innovation, encouraging exploration of innovative technologies.
- Continuously seek opportunities to automate, improve efficiency, reduce costs and increase the effectiveness of delivery.
- Project Management:
- Oversee projects, ensuring they are completed on time, within budget, and meet the required standards.
- Ensure the timely and accurate delivery of data and analytics to support business decision-making.
- Collaboration:
- Work closely with offshore/onsite managers and leadership to align with department goals
- Facilitate effective communication between onshore and offshore teams.
- Work closely with other departments to understand their needs and provide solutions.
- Establish and maintain relationships with vendors and service providers.
- Address and resolve department related issues promptly and effectively.
Qualifications:
- Education: Bachelor's degree in information technology, Computer Science, Data Science, or a related field. A master's degree is optional.
- Experience:
- 15 plus years of IT experience
- Have led teams and projects
- Experience working in an onshore-offshore model
- 5 years in a senior management role
- 8 years of experience working in BI, data and analytics
- at least 2 years of experience working in Azure implementations
- Working experience in data modelling, ETL process data pipeline development
- Familiarity with data governance, security and company best practices
- Worked in both development and support/run projects
- Excellent analytical & logical reasoning skills.
- Leadership Skills:
- Strong leadership, strategic planning, and project management skills.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
- Led projects as delivery, program manager for large scale projects.
- Technical skills:
- Proficiency in Azure tools and/or cloud technologies like Microsoft Azure, ADLS, Microsoft Fabric, Synapse, ADF, star schema, Power BI, Lakehouse.
- Both development and support skills.
- Soft Skills:
- Strong problem-solving abilities and a proactive approach to troubleshooting.
- Excellent collaboration skills with cross-functional teams.
- Results-driven mindset with a focus on operational efficiency and scalability.
- Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic environment
