Director, Enterprise Analytics & Automation Transformation

FirstEnergy Corp; Harrisburg (Dauphin County); Hybrid; USD 181,000 - 242,000; Full time

Job summary

FirstEnergy Corp is seeking a Director, Business Transformation Analytics & Automation to lead two disciplines—data & analytics and automation & AI—across the enterprise. The role reports to the VP of Business Transformation and requires travel to work locations as needed.

You will set standards, govern tooling, and partner with IT and risk to implement responsible AI, while building analytics literacy and delivering durable, measurable value across the organization.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in data science, analytics, engineering, information systems, business, or related discipline.
• Minimum of 10 years of leadership experience and 8 years of relevant technical work.
• Experience leading data, analytics, automation, or technology delivery work.
• Strong communication skills translating technical work to senior leadership.

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop a team across data & analytics and automation & AI.
• Set methods, standards, and quality expectations for both disciplines.
• Allocate specialist capacity across business units by portfolio prioritization.
• Confirm analytical basis of value sizing at intake and realized benefits at close.
• Own relationships with IT covering tooling evaluation and data platform decisions.
• Represent disciplines to executive leadership and steering committees.
• Identify and diagnose data gaps, quality defects, and architecture constraints.
• Maintain forward view of automation/AI opportunities across the enterprise.
• Partner with IT, Risk, Legal, and Compliance on responsible AI standards.
• Build analytics and automation literacy across the business.
• Manage third-party analytics, automation, and platform partners.
• Contribute to strategy, governance, and capability planning.

Skills

Data & analytics leadership

Automation & AI

Executive communication

Portfolio management

Team leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree in data science, analytics, engineering, information systems, business, or related

Tools

Data platform tooling

Automation platforms

AI governance tools

Job description

FirstEnergy Corp is seeking a Director, Business Transformation Analytics & Automation to lead two disciplines—data & analytics and automation & AI—across the enterprise. The role reports to the VP of Business Transformation and requires travel to work locations as needed.

You will set standards, govern tooling, and partner with IT and risk to implement responsible AI, while building analytics literacy and delivering durable, measurable value across the organization.