Director, Enterprise Data & Analytics

Socket.dev; Jenks (OK); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Socket.dev seeks a Director of Enterprise Data & Analytics to own the data strategy end-to-end, govern data assets, and lead architecture, quality, and AI readiness across the organization. The role partners with business stakeholders to mature data capabilities and deliver implementable data solutions.

The position requires a driven leader with a track record in data governance, modern data warehouses, and cross-functional collaboration, ideally within regulated industries.

Qualifications

• Advanced knowledge of data governance and lineage practices for regulatory/examiner review (GLBA, PCI DSS).
• Familiarity with DCAM, DAMA-DMBOK, or equivalent data management maturity framework.
• Strong stakeholder management skills across departments.
• Ability to run discovery interviews and translate findings into a funded data roadmap.
• Demonstrated experience authoring and implementing a data strategy/roadmap.
• Hands-on experience with modern data warehouses and integration tools (Snowflake, Databricks, BigQuery, Redshift, Synapse).
• Experience in payments or merchant services data and Salesforce data model/integration is a plus.
• Proven track record of moving from strategy to governance and actionable analytics.

Responsibilities

• Sets and owns the bank's overall data strategy and maturity roadmap.
• Builds relationships with stakeholders, translating business needs into the data roadmap.
• Establishes governance, stewardship, and lineage practices compliant with regulations.
• Evaluates and selects platforms, tools, and vendors to execute the strategy.
• Implements solutions from platform build-out to reporting.
• Drives toward a single source of truth for core entities across the bank.
• Advances from manual reporting to governed self-service dashboards.
• Ensures data foundation supports advanced analytics and AI readiness.
• Adheres to regulatory requirements and company policies.

Skills

Data governance

Data lineage

Stakeholder management

Discovery interviews

Data strategy roadmap

Modern data warehouse

Data integration tooling

Team leadership

Get it done attitude

Education

Bachelor's degree in Information Systems or Finance or equivalent

Tools

Snowflake

Databricks

BigQuery

Redshift

Azure Synapse

Salesforce data model/integration

Job description

Director, Enterprise Data & Analytics JOB SUMMARY:Responsible for owning data strategy end to end: setting the strategy, building relationships with business stakeholders across the bank, selecting and managing the tools and vendors that support it, and personally implementing the resulting solutions. This role owns the bank's data maturity roadmap, governance, architecture, quality, and AI-readiness. This is not a strategy-only or advisory position as the same person who sets direction will be implementing the solutions.

Director, Enterprise Data & Analytics ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS (RESPONSIBILITIES)

• Sets and owns the bank's overall data strategy, run the initial maturity assessment, and keep it current as the bank's data footprint grows.
• Builds working relationships with stakeholders across the bank, running discovery, aligning priorities, and translating business needs into the data roadmap.
• Builds data governance, stewardship, and lineage practices that hold up to examiner review (GLBA, PCI DSS, BSA/AML, PII handling).
• Evaluates and selects the platforms, tools, and outside vendors needed to execute the strategy, and own those vendor relationships (contracts, delivery, performance) going forward.
• Implements the solutions the strategy calls for, from platform build-out to integrations to reporting.
• Drives toward a single source of truth for core entities (customer, account, product) across the bank.
• Moves the bank from manual, spreadsheet-driven reporting toward governed self-service dashboards.
• Ensures the underlying data foundation can support advanced analytics and AI use cases, not just BI.
• Exercises awareness with regard to possible suspicious activity, money laundering or fraudulent behavior and reports any such incidents to the BSA department.
• Performs all job functions in compliance with all company policies and federal, state, and local laws and regulations as applicable to the position, including, but not limited to BSA/AML, OFAC and GLBA/privacy rules.
• Performs related responsibilities as required or assigned.

Director, Enterprise Data & Analytics REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

Knowledge/Skills/Abilities

• Advanced knowledge of data governance and lineage practices sufficient to support regulatory/examiner review (GLBA, PCI DSS, BSA/AML).
• Familiarity with a data management maturity framework (DCAM, DAMA-DMBOK, or equivalent).
• Strong stakeholder management skills.
• Ability to run discovery interviews across departments and translate findings into a roadmap business leaders will fund.
• Exemplifies the Gateway Values: Growth Oriented, Make a Difference, "Get it Done" Attitude, Team Player, Do the Right Thing.
• Bachelor's Degree in Information Systems, Finance, or equivalent work expierence.
• 10 years in data strategy, data architecture, or data engineering, ideally in banking, fintech, or another regulated financial services environment.
• Track record of both authoring a data strategy/roadmap and personally implementing it, comfortable being both the strategist setting direction and the engineer writing the code.
• Demonstrated experience leading data strategy conversations with business stakeholders (not just IT) and translating those conversations into a funded, sequenced roadmap.
• Hands-on experience with modern data warehouse and integration tooling (e.g. Snowflake, Databricks, BigQuery, Redshift, Synapse).
• Experience in payments or merchant services data (e.g. payment processor integrations, merchant reporting) preferred.
• Salesforce data model / integration experience preferred.
• Prior experience building or scoring a formal data maturity assessment for a financial institution.

Director, Enterprise Data & Analytics SPECIAL JOB DIMENSIONS

None.

NOTE: The essential job functions and associated qualifications contained in this document describe the general nature and level of the work performed. They are not intended to represent an exhaustive listing or be inclusive of all aspects of the job. The tasks and procedures involved in the performance of the essential job functions may vary from day-to-day. Major changes in areas of responsibility may occur, as directed by management, and will require revision of this job description.