Director of Investments Data & Analytics

Reinsurance Group of America, Incorporated; Creve Coeur (MO); On-site; USD 151,000 - 225,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Hybrid work model

401(k) and retirement benefits

Job summary

Reinsurance Group of America, Incorporated (RGA) is seeking a senior data leadership professional to direct data engineering, BI, analytics, and reporting in the Investments domain. You will lead enterprise data product delivery, modernization, and adoption aligned with corporate strategy and regulatory standards.

The role emphasizes managing managers, architects, engineers, and analysts to deliver scalable data solutions, with a focus on AI-enabled speed, productivity, and capacity growth

Qualifications

• 10+ years of information technology, data, analytics, or related experience.
• 5+ years of technical leadership and supervisory experience.
• Experience supporting Investment technology solutions, including deep domain knowledge in Investments and Investment Accounting.
• Experience leading enterprise business intelligence, data warehousing, analytics, reporting, and data management organizations.
• Demonstrated success delivering complex, enterprise-wide transformation programs and strategic initiatives.
• Advanced portfolio, program, and project management capabilities.
• Strong understanding of enterprise data platforms, data governance, analytics, reporting, and information management practices.
• Proven ability to align technology investments with business strategy and measurable outcomes.
• Advanced stakeholder management, negotiation, influence, and executive communication skills.
• Strong financial management, budgeting, vendor management, and resource planning experience.
• Ability to build high-performing teams and develop future leaders.
• Ability to balance strategic planning with operational execution.
• Regular and predictable attendance.

Responsibilities

• Manages multiple complex projects and/or technology initiatives; manages related teams, sets organizational priorities, and allocates resources
• Performs management responsibilities, including hiring, training, evaluating, coaching, and disciplining direct reports; ensures sustained team performance through effective leadership, talent development, and succession planning
• Builds and maintains trusted stakeholder relationships across business and technology organizations, ensuring alignment of priorities, funding, resources, and expectations
• Leverages comprehensive understanding of Information Management concepts, theories and principles, and effective knowledge of other IT disciplines; evaluates and implements new services and solutions appropriately
• Supports the continued growth of the team by strengthening collaboration and promoting the responsible use of AI to increase speed of delivery, improve productivity, and expand overall team capacity
• Manages budgets, resource plans, vendor relationships, and operational metrics to ensure efficient and effective service delivery
• Fosters a culture of accountability, collaboration, customer focus, operational excellence, and continuous learning
• Ensures compliance with corporate policies, regulatory requirements, audit expectations, and data governance standards
• Perform other duties as assigned

Skills

Information Management

Leadership

Stakeholder management

Program management

Data governance

Data platforms

Analytics

Regulatory compliance

AI adoption

Vendor management

Budgeting

Team development

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Information Systems, Computer Science, Data Management, Business Administration, or related field

Master’s degree

LOMA certification

Microsoft Certification

Cloud Platform Certification (Microsoft Azure, Snowflake, AWS, or equivalent)

Project Management Certification / Agile delivery certification

Tools

Power BI

Azure

Snowflake

SQL Server

Databricks

Data Integration Platforms

Python

Data Catalog

Fabric

Job description

Reinsurance Group of America, Incorporated (RGA) is seeking a senior data leadership professional to direct data engineering, BI, analytics, and reporting in the Investments domain. You will lead enterprise data product delivery, modernization, and adoption aligned with corporate strategy and regulatory standards.

The role emphasizes managing managers, architects, engineers, and analysts to deliver scalable data solutions, with a focus on AI-enabled speed, productivity, and capacity growth