Director – Head of Data
AAA Life Insurance Company
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Livonia • Missouri • United States
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About the role
- Provide the vision and leadership for how AAA Life manages and uses data across the company.
- Design, build, and maintain a modern data environment that delivers accurate, reliable, and accessible information.
- Oversee data architecture, engineering, governance, and analytics enablement.
- Work closely with various teams to understand needs, set priorities, and ensure data consumers have timely information.
- Build and run a high-performing team and create the structure needed to scale data capabilities as the company modernizes.
- Define and maintain the enterprise data strategy aligned to the company’s North Star architecture.
- Oversee delivery of data pipelines, ingestion patterns, event streaming, and operational data flows.
- Chair the Data Council with business and technology leaders, defining data policies and ownership models.
- Build and lead multi-disciplinary data squads and develop a high-performance team structure.
Requirements
- 10 years in data engineering, data architecture, or data analytics leadership roles.
- Experience leading data programs in a regulated industry such as life insurance, financial services, or healthcare.
- Demonstrated success building modern data platforms in cloud environments.
- Strong understanding and demonstrated experience building trusted data governance, metadata management, lineage, and data quality principles.
- Experience leading technology teams through transformation and modernization.
- Ability to communicate clearly with, drive alignment with, and influence senior leaders.
- Strong communication skills with the ability to present complex concepts concisely.
- Experience with Snowflake, DBT, event streaming architectures, API integration patterns, and semantic modeling (preferred).
- Experience building domain-based and business-empowered data products (preferred).
Benefits
- Flexible work arrangements
- Professional development opportunities
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
data engineeringdata architecturedata analyticsdata governancemetadata managementdata lineagedata qualitycloud environmentsevent streamingAPI integration
Soft Skills
leadershipcommunicationinfluencealignmentteam buildingpresentation skillscollaborationprioritizationvisionproblem-solving