Strategic Director of Enterprise Analytics & Insights

Unum; Dunwoody (GA); On-site; USD 109,000 - 224,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare benefits

Disability insurance

Incentive plans

Paid time off

401(k) match

Job summary

Unum is seeking a senior leader to define and execute the enterprise BI, analytics, and reporting strategy. The role oversees platform governance, modernization, and lifecycle management, partnering with data engineering, security, and business leaders to deliver scalable analytics capabilities.

The ideal candidate has 8+ years in data/BI, strong stakeholder management, and a proven track record of leading analytics platform teams in a large enterprise.

Qualifications

• Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, Analytics, or equivalent relevant experience preferred.
• 8+ years of experience in Data, Analytics, Business Intelligence, or IT disciplines, including leadership experience.
• Demonstrated experience leading enterprise analytics, reporting, or BI platform teams.
• Proven ability to define analytics platform strategies, roadmaps, governance frameworks, and modernization initiatives.
• Strong knowledge of BI and analytics platforms, semantic layers, governed metrics, metadata management, and self-service analytics capabilities.
• Experience leading analytics platform migrations, tool rationalization, and technology transformation initiatives.
• Strong strategic thinking, stakeholder management, communication, and influencing skills.
• Demonstrated success building and developing high-performing technical teams and leaders.

Responsibilities

• Defines and executes the strategy, roadmap, governance, and standards for the enterprise BI, Analytics, and Reporting platform ecosystem.
• Owns the enterprise analytics platform portfolio, including tool evaluation, selection, rationalization, modernization, lifecycle management, and vendor relationships.
• Leads analytics platform transformation initiatives, including tool migrations, platform consolidation, and modernization efforts.
• Establishes and governs enterprise analytics capabilities, including semantic layer platforms, governed metrics, self-service analytics, and reporting standards.
• Partners with business, architecture, data engineering, security, and technology leaders to align analytics capabilities with business objectives and priorities.
• Ensures analytics platforms are scalable, secure, reliable, cost-effective, and compliant with enterprise standards.
• Defines platform success metrics, monitors adoption and value realization, and drives continuous improvement across analytics services.
• Leverages industry trends and emerging technologies to evolve the enterprise analytics ecosystem and improve user experience.
• Leads and develops high-performing analytics platform and BI engineering teams, fostering a culture of innovation, accountability, and continuous learning.
• Manages platform investments and operational performance to ensure effective delivery of analytics capabilities.

Skills

Leadership

BI Strategy

Stakeholder Mgmt

Team Leadership

Data Governance

Platform Migrations

Communication

Strategic Thinking

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/IS/Engineering/Analytics

Tools

Power BI

Tableau

Metadata Management

Job description

Unum is seeking a senior leader to define and execute the enterprise BI, analytics, and reporting strategy. The role oversees platform governance, modernization, and lifecycle management, partnering with data engineering, security, and business leaders to deliver scalable analytics capabilities.

The ideal candidate has 8+ years in data/BI, strong stakeholder management, and a proven track record of leading analytics platform teams in a large enterprise.