Global Head of Data & Analytics & AI

Ashurst Perkins Coie; Bellevue (WA); On-site; USD 201,000 - 351,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual discretionary bonus

Healthcare benefits

Paid time off

Job summary

Ashurst Perkins Coie is seeking a Senior Director of Data & Analytics to lead the global data and analytics organization. You will own the enterprise data strategy, architecture, engineering, governance, and AI capabilities across Databricks and Azure lakehouse environments.

You will drive standards for data quality, security, lineage, and compliance while guiding ML engineering and MLOps efforts to deliver trusted data products and business value.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of progressive experience in data engineering, analytics, or related tech disciplines.
• 5+ years of senior leadership experience managing multidisciplinary data teams.
• Deep expertise in enterprise data architecture, lakehouse platforms, and data warehousing.

Responsibilities

• Lead enterprise data and analytics strategy, roadmap, and investments with executive stakeholders.
• Oversee data architecture, governance, analytics, data science, and ML engineering.
• Own Databricks and Azure lakehouse security, scalability, and cost efficiency.
• Establish standards for data integration, quality, metadata, and compliance.
• Direct ML engineering and MLOps to move models from development to production.
• Enable self-service analytics and governed data services for business units.
• Lead vendor decisions, budget management, and cross-functional initiatives.
• Drive opportunities for data, analytics, and AI to deliver measurable business value.
• Manage a global, multi-region data organization and executive reporting.

Skills

Data architecture

Leadership

Databricks

Azure

SQL

Python

MLOps

AI governance

Data governance

Cross-functional leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering/Stats

Advanced degree preferred

Tools

Databricks

Microsoft Azure

Power BI

Unity Catalog

Job description

Ashurst Perkins Coie is seeking a Senior Director of Data & Analytics to lead the global data and analytics organization. You will own the enterprise data strategy, architecture, engineering, governance, and AI capabilities across Databricks and Azure lakehouse environments.

You will drive standards for data quality, security, lineage, and compliance while guiding ML engineering and MLOps efforts to deliver trusted data products and business value.