Director, Enterprise Data
Flexential Corp. · CO, Denver Corp · onsite
The Director, Enterprise Data, is responsible for defining and executing Flexential's enterprise data strategy, governance framework, architecture roadmap, integration services, analytics enablement capabilities, and information management practices. This leader provides strategic direction and operational oversight for the people, platforms, architecture, governance, and operating model needed to make enterprise data trusted, reliable, discoverable, reusable, and fit for purpose. This role leads the Data vertical as a distinct function that works in a dotted-line matrix with the AI vertical. The role owns the data foundation that enables analytics, operational integration, automation, and AI readiness, including governed data products, reusable pipelines, consistent metrics, metadata, lineage, quality, classification, and access controls. The successful candidate is a leader who balances long-term strategy with near-term execution and builds practical governance that enables the business rather than slowing it down. Success in this role will be measured by Flexential's ability to leverage trusted, governed, and reusable data assets through self-service analytics, automation, and emerging AI capabilities that drive measurable business outcomes.
Key Responsibilities and Essential Job Functions
- Develop, maintain, and execute the enterprise data strategy and multi-year roadmap aligned to Flexential priorities, measurable business outcomes, and AI readiness requirements.
- Lead the evolution of Flexential's data capabilities from report-centric delivery toward governed data products, trusted enterprise metrics, reusable business capabilities, self-service analytics, automation, and emerging AI enablement that improve operational efficiency, accelerate decision-making, and deliver measurable business value.
- Establish a clear operating model for the Data organization, including decision rights, service ownership, delivery intake, prioritization, capacity planning, and engagement with business and technology teams.
- Translate enterprise priorities into a sequenced portfolio of data platform, integration, governance, and data product initiatives, with clear outcomes, owners, dependencies, and measures of value.
- Guide investment and rationalization decisions across the data ecosystem, favoring reuse, platform standards, and incremental modernization over unnecessary tool proliferation or wholesale replacement.
- Partner with the AI vertical to identify the minimum viable governed data needed for priority AI use cases and sequence data work according to business value and readiness.
- Collaborate with Enterprise Architects to ensure enterprise data architecture, integrations, models, and governance standards align with Flexential’s broader technology strategy and future-state architecture.
- Own the future-state enterprise data architecture and the standards that govern how data is sourced, moved, stored, transformed, secured, documented, and consumed.
- Provide architectural leadership across the SQL Server-based Enterprise Data Warehouse (EDW) and Operational Data Store (ODS), including landing, staging, dimensional, fact, reporting, and operational schemas.
- Establish and enforce data modeling, schema design, master and reference data, data lifecycle, interoperability, performance, reliability, and scalability standards.
- Define authoritative systems of record and approved patterns for analytical, operational, and third-party data exchange.
- Ensure architecture decisions support governed data products, reusable semantic layers, historical analysis, operational reporting, automation, and AI consumption.
- Lead the design, delivery, operation, and continuous improvement of enterprise data pipelines, APIs, integrations, transformations, and orchestration workflows.
- Maintain clear separation of tool responsibilities: Boomi as the preferred platform for application-to-application, API, event-driven, and near-real-time operational integrations; Pentaho Data Integration as the primary platform for batch analytics ingestion and data warehouse population; and custom code only for justified exceptions.
- Establish reusable integration patterns, data contracts, error handling, retry, logging, monitoring, testing, deployment, and support standards.
- Oversee SQL Server stored procedures and other in-database transformations used for complex or performance-sensitive processing, ensuring they remain maintainable, documented, and appropriately scoped.
- Partner with application owners for Salesforce, NetSuite, ServiceNow, Workday, Anaplan, and other source or target systems to improve data reliability and reduce brittle point-to-point dependencies.
- Establish and mature a business-owned, enablement-first enterprise data governance program with clear Data Owner, Data Steward, Domain Lead, and technical custodian responsibilities.
- Create lightweight policies, standards, and decision forums for data ownership, access, quality, definitions, classification, lifecycle management, issue resolution, and change control.
- Develop an enterprise business glossary and consistent definitions for critical data elements, metrics, dimensions, and KPIs.
- Advance metadata management, data cataloging, end-to-end lineage, data quality measurement, certification, and discoverability of governed data assets.
- Partner with Security, Privacy, Risk, Compliance, Legal, and business leaders to align data access, classification, retention, protection, and auditability with enterprise requirements.
- Create transparent escalation and remediation processes for data quality issues and conflicting metric definitions, with accountability assigned to the appropriate business owner.
- Drive the transition from ad hoc, report-centric delivery toward governed, reusable data products and semantic layers that support consistent reporting and analysis.
- Partner with FP&A and business teams using Qlik, Anaplan, application-native reporting, and other analytical tools to ensure enterprise metrics are governed consistently across consumption platforms.
- Enable self-service analytics through certified datasets, documented definitions, reusable data assets, clear guardrails, fit-for-purpose tooling, data literacy initiatives, and AI-assisted analytics capabilities that reduce dependency on centralized report development.
- Ensure executive and cross-functional reporting is supported by trusted source data, documented transformations, defined refresh expectations, and named business owners.
- Improve data literacy and fluency by helping leaders and teams understand data definitions, quality, appropriate use, and accountability.
- Lead, coach, and develop the Enterprise Data team, setting clear priorities, role expectations, delivery standards, and individual accountability.
- Establish disciplined delivery and operational practices across Boomi, Pentaho, SQL Server, APIs, integrations, and data products, including solution design, development, testing, release, observability, documentation, incident response, and root cause analysis.
- Create measurable service health, platform reliability, delivery throughput, data quality, reuse, customer experience, and business value metrics.
- Manage vendors, contracts, licensing, platform roadmaps, and external partners within the approved budget.
- Communicate architecture decisions, delivery risks, tradeoffs, progress, and outcomes clearly to technical teams, business leaders, and executives.
- Perform other duties as required and assigned.
What Success Looks Like
12-Month Expectations
- Develop and execute a prioritized enterprise data roadmap that clearly connects platform, architecture, integration, governance, reporting, and AI-readiness work to business outcomes.
- Establish the initial enterprise data governance operating model, with named business Data Owners and Data Stewards for priority domains, clear decis