Director, Head of HR Data Services
$150,000–$258,750 year
On-site · New Brunswick, New Jersey, United States
Job Summary
Director, Head of HR Data Services leads HR data platform strategy and owns the Medallion architecture in Databricks, defining data products and the data marketplace, and driving adoption and value across HR. This role leads a globally distributed team of data product stewards, platform managers, and data quality professionals, collaborates with Governance, Privacy, Security, and HR AI leaders to embed compliance and AI-readiness into product design, and partners with the Technical Platform Manager to ensure engineering execution aligns with business priorities. The position sits in New Brunswick, NJ, with up to 10% travel, and focuses on delivering analytics-ready data assets, governance standards, metadata, documentation, and scalable data solutions for HR analytics, data science, and AI initiatives.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Data, Engineering, or a related field is required
- 8+ years progressive leadership experience owning enterprise data platforms as business products, with accountability for strategy, roadmap, prioritization, and value delivery
- Demonstrated experience operating as a Business Product Owner for data or platform capabilities, translating business and product needs into durable data products
- Strong technical fluency in modern data architectures (e.g., medallion, layered, or lakehouse patterns) with the ability to partner effectively with engineering and platform teams
- Proven experience defining and governing data products and data marketplaces, including data product scope, metadata, documentation, quality standards, and lifecycle management
- Experience leading and developing data product stewards, platform managers, and data quality teams in a product-oriented operating model
- Demonstrated ability to establish and enforce enterprise data standards that enable reuse, self-service, and analytics readiness across multiple consumer groups
- Strong stakeholder leadership skills, with the ability to influence senior HR, Digital, and Technology leaders and align competing priorities
- Excellent executive communication skills, including the ability to translate complex data and platform concepts into clear business decisions and tradeoffs
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