Director Data Solutions

Vizient; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 118,000 - 206,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive benefits plan

Job summary

Vizient is seeking a Director-level data engineering leader to design and deliver governed data solutions across enterprise analytics, reporting, and product workflows. You will lead a hands-on team, collaborate with Kaufman Hall, Data Governance, and Architecture, and translate business use cases into reusable data assets while ensuring security and governance alignment.

You will mentor engineers, drive performance, and partner with advisory leadership to meet client analytics needs.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree preferred.
• 7+ years of relevant experience.
• Experience leading data engineering teams.
• Experience designing governed data solutions with Databricks and cloud data tech.
• Strong SQL, data transformation, modeling, and validation skills.
• Experience in governance, quality, lineage, access controls, security, and documentation.

Responsibilities

• Lead, coach, and develop data engineers and contributors.
• Partner with leadership to translate analytics needs into data solution plans.
• Define governed data access patterns with datasets and usage rules.
• Translate use cases into data personas, access levels, and solution patterns.
• Design and optimize data solutions using Databricks, SQL, and cloud tech.
• Create practical data documentation on lineage, grain, and retention.
• Collaborate with governance, security, and compliance teams to mitigate risks.
• Act as accountable technical partner for Advisory data-solution intake and delivery.

Skills

Leadership

SQL

Data Modeling

Data Governance

Cross-functional Collaboration

Communication

Mentoring

Education

Bachelor's degree preferred

Tools

Databricks

Job description

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We value our talented employees and instill an environment where you feel engaged, satisfied and able to contribute your unique skills and talents while living and working as your authentic self. We provide extensive opportunities for personal and professional development, building employee competence and organizational capability to fuel exceptional performance through an inclusive environment both now and in the future.

Our people make all the difference in our success.

Summary

In this role, you will lead a team that designs and delivers governed data solutions that enable clients and Advisory teams to access, understand, and use enterprise data safely across consulting, analytics, reporting, and product‑adjacent workflows. You will lead and develop data engineering talent while serving as a hands‑on technical partner across Kaufman Hall, Data Governance, Data Engineering, Architecture, Analytics, Product, and Managed Services. You will translate consulting and business use cases into reusable data assets, governed access patterns, documentation, and scalable solutions using Databricks and modern cloud data technologies. You will improve data usability, governance alignment, delivery speed, security, and operational support while ensuring solutions align with enterprise standards.

Responsibilities

• Lead, coach, and develop data engineers and technical contributors through performance management, career development, prioritization, and effective team operating rhythms.


• Partner with Kaufman Hall and Advisory leadership to understand consulting analytics needs and translate them into governed, executable data solution plans.


• Define and implement governed data access patterns based on user personas, approved datasets, usage boundaries, documentation requirements, and support workflows.


• Translate business and consulting use cases into data personas, access levels, solution patterns, and implementation options, including curated extracts, governed views, Databricks workspaces, dashboards, APIs, natural‑language analytics, and reusable analytics assets.


• Design, develop, optimize, and enhance data solutions using Databricks, SQL, and modern cloud data technologies.


• Create and maintain practical data documentation covering table grain, key fields, join guidance, lineage, refresh cadence, retention rules, data‑quality limitations, and appropriate‑use guidance.


• Partner with Data Governance, data owners, Security, Compliance, Data Engineering, and Analytics teams to identify and mitigate documentation, quality, lineage, access, security, and compliance risks.


• Serve as the accountable technical partner for Advisory data‑solution intake, shaping requirements, coordinating execution across data teams, and ensuring delivered solutions are usable, governed, secure, and supportable.


• Convert recurring consulting analytics needs into reusable governed data assets, accelerators, and productizable capabilities while promoting best practices for architecture, governance, quality, security, and operational support.


• Partner with Managed Services, Architecture, Product, and other cross‑functional teams to support scalable data pipelines, recurring analytics workflows, AI and advanced analytics use cases, technical documentation, and emerging data capabilities.

Qualifications

• Relevant degree preferred.


• 7 or more years of relevant experience required.


• Experience leading, coaching, and developing data engineering teams or technical contributors required.


• Experience designing and implementing governed data solutions using Databricks and modern cloud data technologies required.


• Strong SQL, data transformation, data modeling, optimization, prototyping, and validation skills required.


• Experience with data governance, data quality, lineage, access controls, security, compliance, and documentation practices required.


• Experience translating business or consulting use cases into scalable data solutions, reusable data assets, and analytics enablement capabilities required.


• Strong cross‑functional collaboration and communication skills with technical and business stakeholders.


• Experience supporting data and analytics use cases involving AI, natural‑language analytics, or advanced analytics preferred.

Career Framework

Management - Director (M3)

Estimated Hiring Range

At Vizient, we consider skills, experience, and organizational needs in our compensation approach. Geographic factors may adjust the range estimate and hires typically fall below the top range. Compensation decisions are tailored to individual circumstances. The current salary range for this role is $117,600.00 to $206,000.00.

This position is also incentive eligible.

Benefits

• Vizient has a comprehensive benefits plan! Please view our benefits here: http://www.vizientinc.com/about-us/careers