Manager, Data & Analytics

Company: Ameritas
Location: Cincinnati
Posted on: July 22, 2021

Job Description:

Lead and manage a team of experts in the data engineering field. 

At Ameritas, our mission is Fulfilling Life. We do that in many ways, but especially by helping people invest in themselves by offering trusted financial products and advice. Because we believe everyone should be happy, healthy, and financially secure, we work hard to provide trusted financial products and valued guidance, including individual life and disability insurance, employee benefits, retirement planning, investments, and wealth management services.

We are looking for an experienced Data Engineering Manager to lead a team of diverse, smart, and driven data engineers distributed across multiple locations to create a cohesive, high-functioning team that thrives in a culture of trust, respect, and inclusion.  You will be a critical enabler of data-driven decision making. In this role you will split your time between hands on development and managerial activities implement new technologies and tooling to enable analytics and data driven insights.

The ideal candidate will have outstanding communication skills, proven data engineering design and implementation capabilities, strong business acumen, and an innate drive to deliver results.

What you do

* Build cross-functional relationships with business and technical stakeholders to understand the data, tools, and governance needed and deliver on those needs. Seek diverse perspectives to drive innovation and create buy-in across stakeholders. * Participate in key technical and design discussions with technical leads in the team as a hands-on manager * Proactively identify and implement process improvements to drive our data platform forward with a metrics-driven, continuous improvement approach. * Actively coach and mentor team members in their careers * Set clear expectations for team members; solicit, synthesize, and deliver feedback * Proactively identify and clear roadblocks for the team

What you bring

* 7+ years hands on expertise with data engineering, ETL technologies and data warehousing * Understanding and experience with Agile software development and management * Proven track record of leading and scaling data teams, strong execution, and delivery skills

* Strong project leadership, and a strong vision for how data engineering can proactively enable the growth of the business and needs of our customers.

* Previous required experiences include:

* Coding, architecting, and delivering complex data projects * Deep understanding and application of modern data processing technology stacks * Hands on expertise with AWS Cloud technologies/tools * Excellent critical thinking, problem solving and analytical skills. * Excellent communication skills, and the ability to work effectively with others * Excellent people skills to partner with various key business stakeholders * Previous people leadership or people management experience is desired.

What we offer

* Our company motto is “Fulfilling Life” and we take that job seriously, with a heavy commitment to volunteering and community support, employee well-being, and providing quality products and services that help our customers create a brighter future. * Being a mutual-based organization, the return on our investment goes back into the company, to benefit our members/customers. * We’re committed to professional development, opportunity, inclusion, and diversity. Team building and collaboration are also priorities. * A total rewards package with all the comprehensive health and welfare benefits you’d expect, including competitive pay and incentives, 401(k), flexible work schedules and time off to care for yourself and others. * Additional popular benefits, including tuition reimbursement, and student loan repayment, an incentivized well-being program, adoption assistance, paid time off for volunteering, training, and career development opportunities.

An Equal Opportunity Employer

Ameritas has a reputation as a company that cares, and because everyone should feel safe bringing their authentic, whole self to work, we’re committed to an inclusive culture and diverse workplace, enriched by our individual differences. We are an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer that hires based on qualifications, positive attitude and exemplary work ethic, regardless of sex, race, color, national origin, religion, age, disability, veteran status, genetic information, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity or any other characteristic protected by law.

Equal Opportunity Employer Minorities/Women/Protected Veterans/Disabled

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