
IT Manager – Engagement Lead for Enterprise Data
Horace Mann
full-time
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Location Type: Remote
Location: Illinois • Texas • United States
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Salary
💰 $105,200 - $147,950 per year
Job Level
Tech Stack
About the role
- Assist with coordinating across multiple teams: Data Governance, Data Enablement Real-Time Services, Data Warehousing, and Data Reporting.
- Play a pivotal role in ensuring stability, efficiency, visibility, and continuous improvement of enterprise data capabilities.
- Evaluate and prioritize incoming requests based on business impact, urgency, and technical feasibility.
- Set clear expectations with stakeholders, ensuring alignment with organizational goals.
- Communicate trade-offs transparently, advocating for business value over reactive task execution.
- Develop a structured framework for prioritization that ensures mission-critical support needs are met while also advancing right-sized enhancements that drive continuous improvement.
- Ensure operational metrics, roadmaps, goals/outcomes, project status, and other critical reports outs for the data department are updated appropriately.
- Identify and help remove operational roadblocks that limit team effectiveness, including process inefficiencies, unclear responsibilities, or misaligned priorities.
- Facilitate necessary resource capacity/demand activities include planning, onboarding, tracking, and support for both employee and contractual staff across all enterprise data teams.
- Ensure cross-team collaboration, fostering a shared understanding of priorities, dependencies, and technical solutions.
- Create and uphold accountability structures to ensure work is completed efficiently and of high quality.
- Drive a culture of ownership, problem-solving, and continuous learning.
- Coach team leads on best practices for planning, reporting, and cross-functional collaboration.
- Act as a central point of escalation and resolution for cross-team resource conflicts or competing priorities.
- Promote the use of generative AI tools to boost team creativity, efficiency, and skill development.
- Serve as the bridge between technology teams and business stakeholders, ensuring both sides understand priorities, constraints, and impacts.
- Maintain a strong grasp of enterprise data systems, workflows, and potential challenges, ensuring informed decision-making.
- Set firm but fair expectations with business stakeholders, ensuring they understand how and why prioritization decisions are made.
- Provide regular updates on progress, challenges, and key outcomes related to support and enhancements.
- Communicate realistic timelines, risks, and trade-offs when managing requests.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Business Administration, or a related field.
- 6+ years of experience in IT leadership, with a focus on managing IT projects, technical support, and/or system enhancements.
- Proven track record of making strategic prioritization decisions that drive business value.
- Experience implementing generative AI technologies in development workflows.
- Familiarity with at least one area of Data Management, including but not limited to, data intensive applications, data development lifecycles, data analytics, business intelligence, data governance, and/or data-driven decision making.
- Ability to translate business needs into technical priorities and vice versa.
- Ability to view the enterprise data ecosystem holistically and identify systemic issues that affect multiple teams or business areas.
- Familiarity with modern planning and ticketing systems (e.g., ServiceNow, Enterprise One, Monday, Jira, Azure DevOps) and IT project/portfolio management best practices.
- Familiarity with change management frameworks to support adoption of new processes, tools, or prioritization frameworks across data teams.
- Proficiency in leveraging generative AI tools like ChatGPT, Copilot, or similar to enhance IT workflows.
- Strong leadership skills, with the ability to motivate, support, and guide teams in a fast-paced environment.
- Experience with IT portfolio planning, tracking, and senior level report outs.
- Ability to set clear expectations and communicate priorities firmly yet diplomatically to stakeholders.
- Experience in negotiating and influencing senior leaders on data priorities and trade-offs.
- Strong facilitation and conflict resolution skills, with the ability to mediate between diverse stakeholders and align differing viewpoints.
Benefits
- Health insurance
- Retirement plans
- Paid time off
- Flexible work arrangements
- Professional development opportunities
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
data managementdata governancedata analyticsbusiness intelligencegenerative AIIT project managementsystem enhancementstechnical supportchange managementIT portfolio planning
Soft Skills
leadershipcommunicationconflict resolutionfacilitationproblem-solvingstakeholder managementprioritizationteam motivationcollaborationstrategic decision-making