At OneAmerica®, we deliver on our promises when customers need us most. We believe the best way to serve our customers is to know that every individual, employee, family and business we work with has unique personal and financial goals. We keep our promises so we can help them achieve their goals and realize their definition of financial success.

The Information Technology department at OneAmerica is currently on a journey to transform our current capabilities to become digitally enabled organization.  We are shifting from stand-alone systems to collaborative intelligent solutions that work together to deliver workflow management, customer engagement, data and innovation. Fueling this transformation are our greatest assets, our people, who are key to the success of delivering on our promises when customers need us most. As a result, we remain committed to embracing the values of our associates while advancing the OneAmerica's goals of Growth, Strength, and Excellence.

Data Delivery Leader

As part of this transformation, we are looking for a dynamic individual to develop a cohesive department environment that maximizes OneAmerica's values and strengths in a rapidly evolving business environment. This is a Leader of Leaders role and is responsible for ensuring our ETL developers and Data Modelers (Area Data Architects) have the appropriate training, certifications, coaching, and mentoring to deliver on our promises. This role also works with other IT Leaders to ensure business outcomes are met with high quality

Responsibilities include:

Work with our Data Strategy Leaders to actualize the OneAmerica Data Delivery strategy

• Accountable for ensuring their teams (OneAmerica associates and third-party vendors) are executing the operational strategy for Data Delivery in alignment with OneAmerica VP of Data Strategy's vision for OneAmerica's Enterprise Data Strategy


• Responsible for ensuring their teams (OneAmerica associates and third-party vendors) are delivering outcomes as articulated by our OneAmerica Business Partners


• Partners with the Vice President of Data Strategy to ensure data is sourced to support data governance, reporting, and analytics needs


• Partner with IT peers from Plan and Run to ensure IT operational alignment so IT can deliver expected results toward our enterprise goals


• Partner with other Enterprise Applications Leaders to ensure quality and delivery efficiency


• Assess gaps in departments' performance and ensure adequate measures to fulfil the gaps through capacity alignment and training


• Identify opportunities for improvement in team performance and utilization


• Follow-up on open issues and action items to ensure they are resolved


• Ensure best practices, standards, and procedures are clearly defined and communicated to encourage team consistency, efficiency, and maintainability


• Identify metrics necessary to ensure the Data Delivery department is improving quality and delivery efficiency


• Communicates departmental risks and successes to OA Senior Leadership, IT Leadership, IT Peers, and IT Associates to educate and ensure confidence in the direction of the department


• Manage Data Practice Leads and ETL team Leader and perform performance reviews


• Work with direct reports to develop their personal development plans and ensure all associates in your department have personal development plans to assist them in their career journey


• Work with team members to ensure their key actions align to the Enterprise and Team goals to drive successful results

• Experience working with a captive workforce and third-party vendors to drive delivery results through geographically diverse teams


• Experience driving Agile delivery transformations in ETL and Data Modeling (Area Data Architecture) workforces


• Understanding of Data integration, Data warehouse and ETL tools


• Experience working with data / data warehouse professionals on integration interfaces/systems in medium to large scale data warehouse and OLAP solutions


• Excellent Communication and Presentation skills with experience presenting to senior level executives


• Experience leading teams that create information technology solutions to business challenges


• Sound people management skills interpersonal, approachable, motivational


• Deep understand of overall systems development life cycle including various methodologies (agile, waterfall, iterative)


• Strong influencing & negotiation skills


• Excellent oral and written communication skills reports, proposals, good presentation skills


• Offer solutions/suggestions to improve current procedures and systems


• Minimum five years' experience of direct people management


• Preference given to people with experience leading leaders to drive delivery results
  
  
  Education:

• Bachelor's Degree in computer science or a related business discipline.