Data Strategy Manager
HybridChennai, Tamil Nadu, India
Job Summary
Curate, document, and integrate knowledge about critical Flow Controls business data sources, flows, and consumption patterns. Advise business and IT teams on data availability, value, and transformation requirements while managing EDW developers on delivery standards. Facilitate Agile development workflows by overseeing sprint standups, backlog grooming, and requirements gathering for Azure and SQL Server ecosystems. Identify reporting needs, prioritize internal projects, and maintain a comprehensive data catalog for business and technical consumption. Serve as the liaison between data consumers and Power BI/EDW developers to optimize data delivery options and user experience. Manage enterprise risk, vendor relationships, and project timelines while ensuring policy compliance and cost containment.
Required Qualifications
- BS/BA degree
- 8-10 years' experience
- 3+ years managing people
- Experience with relational database and reporting services and teams in a corporate environment
- Experience with an Enterprise class data center and cloud computing
- Some strategic and technical expertise of relational database systems
- Experience with at least one end user reporting platform (Power BI, Cognos, Noetix, etc.)
- Comfortable exploring, reviewing, and interpreting TSQL, relational database table structure, views, and stored procedures
- Some TSQL development experience
- Good interpersonal and written skills
- Good presentation and communication skills
- Good planning skills
- Ability to liaise with and influence corporate shared services teams
- Ability to negotiate system downtime and delivery timelines with business stakeholders
- Ability to communicate in business language
- Ability to manage multiple projects and priorities
- Ability to remain flexible and professional while under pressure
- Resource and project management within the data ecosystem
- Manage enterprise risk from an infrastructure, security, data loss, and downtime perspective
- Conflict management
- Ability to work at computer for extended periods of time
- Occasional travel
Desired Qualifications
- ERP exposure, especially within a manufacturing business
- SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) development
- Advanced TSQL development
- Power BI / SSRS Report development
- Data Warehousing exposure and methodologies
- Understanding data sources / types
- Designing Data Marts
- Recommending EDW Architecture changes
- Experience with documentation and information sharing systems such as Wikis, Confluence, SharePoint, Red Gate SQL Doc, or similar
- Azure or other cloud experience (Azure DevOps, Data Factory, Synapse, etc.)
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