Director, Data Operations
Dodge Construction Network
full-time
Posted on:
Location: 🇺🇸 United States
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Lead
Tech Stack
PythonSQL
About the role
- Lead multi-year organizational transformation of Data Operations to offshore-managed capability
- Drive productivity improvements, cost efficiency via vendor optimization, offshore leverage, and automation
- Define and execute multi-phase roadmap balancing cost, quality, scalability
- Establish KPIs to track productivity and efficiency
- Evaluate and optimize 3rd-party vendor arrangements
- Build strategic sourcing to reduce vendor fragmentation
- Lead migration of processes to offshore delivery centers and manage offshore teams
- Partner with engineering and data science to deploy automation, AI, ML to reduce manual workloads
- Redesign processes for automation adoption
- Role reports to SVP, Data Strategy and Operations
- Remote, home-office based; candidates located in the continental United States considered
- Expected travel 20%-30% including international
- Background check required after conditional offer
- Equal Opportunity Employer
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in a related field / equivalent education and /or relevant work experience
- 10+ years of experience in data operations, business process outsourcing, or shared services transformation preferably in an information services business
- Proven track record of delivering large-scale cost transformation programs, including offshoring and automation initiatives
- Strong vendor management, contract negotiation, and partnership-building skills
- Exceptional leadership, communication, and change management skills
- Experience using SQL and / or Python for data analysis (preferred)
- Construction Industry experience (preferred)
- Experience working with AI/ML-driven automation in data-heavy workflows (preferred)
- Experience with business intelligence tools (preferred)
- Candidates must be legally authorized to work in the United States and not require sponsorship