Sr. Data Manager (Chicago)

Company: Innova
Location: Chicago
Posted on: April 26, 2025

Job Description:

Innova Solutions is immediately hiring is immediately hiring for a Senior Data Manager

Please make sure you read the following details carefully before making any applications.

Location: Chicago, IL
Employment Type: Hybrid 2 days in office/ 3 days remote
Work Hours: Monday to Friday, 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Position Requirements
The Senior Data Manager will be responsible for:
Data Strategy and Governance
--- Collaborate with stakeholders to identify and prioritize data sources needed to support business objectives, ensuring alignment with organizational strategy.
--- Drive data utilization and adoption by collaborating with business units to identify opportunities to leverage data effectively, tracking adoption metrics, and addressing barriers to use.
--- Lead efforts to transition data from ad hoc tools like Excel into structured databases, improving data governance, scalability, and reliability while ensuring users can adapt to new processes effectively.
--- Ensure compliance with legal, regulatory, and ethical standards in all aspects of data handling, storage, and usage.
Data Architecture and Operations
--- Develop and leverage a deep understanding of the firm's data and data flows to synthesize canonical, consistent "single-source-of-truth" datasets for distribution across the enterprise.
--- Formalize and operationalize best practices for great data quality and timely delivery, working closely with various business areas to establish accountability and transparency.
--- Create and manage data ingestion pipelines, including setting up and maintaining data feeds from external and internal sources to integrate them into the firm's environment securely and efficiently, in collaboration with the firm's software engineers and internal applications.
--- Design and maintain data models, pipelines and operations with an appropriate degree of flexibility and scalability, i.e., fit and sized for purpose, neither under- nor over-engineered.
--- Devise and oversee efficient monitoring and observability in day-to-day operations.
--- Evaluate, select, and deploy back-end tools as needed, to work in concert with the software development team to enhance and manage complex dependencies and derived data calculations.
Reporting and Analytics
--- Drive reporting and analytics excellence by implementing tools like Power BI, supporting business users in developing dashboards and analyses, fostering data literacy, and ensuring users can effectively leverage data for decision-making.
--- Act as a center of excellence for reporting and analytics, providing expertise and guidance to business users in developing dashboards, creating data visualizations, and conducting analyses to meet their needs.
--- Develop self-service data access mechanisms, enabling users to independently find and retrieve the data they need while maintaining governance and security protocols.
Innovation and Continuous Improvement
--- Drive evaluation and selection of potential vendor or open-source solutions pertaining to data management, driving continuous innovation and improvement in the area.
--- Establish and track key data metrics to measure and report on the performance of data systems and to guide ongoing improvements.
Skills Desired
Qualifications & Experience
--- Education: Bachelor's degree (BA/BS) in Data Science, Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field. Master's degree a plus.
--- 8+ years of experience in roles related to data management, governance, and analytics, including leadership positions.
--- Demonstrated ability to implement data quality programs and governance frameworks.
--- Proficiency with data management platforms (e.g., Snowflake, Azure Data Factory) and data visualization tools (e.g., Power BI, Tableau). Ability to write simple scripts (e.g., Python) a plus.
--- Strong knowledge of data integration and ETL/ELT processes, both theoretical and applied.
--- Experience collaborating across teams to define and meet data requirements.
--- Familiarity with compliance frameworks and data privacy regulations (e.g., GDPR, CCPA).
--- Experience in financial services or legal industries is preferred but not required.
Core Competencies & Skills / Personal Attributes & Fit
--- Strong project management skills.
--- Ability to work well under pressure and manage sensitive and confidential information.
--- Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with strong attention to detail.
--- Great interpersonal skills and ability to work well both independently and as part of a team.
--- Naturally curious and eager to absorb and relate to the meaning behind data.
--- Empathetic toward users' experience and proactively champion it.
--- Self-directed, go-getter willing to roll-up sleeves and make things happen.
--- Excellent communication skills, both verbally and in writing
--- Ability to assess, describe, and discover reasonable solutions with high business value to complex data scenarios and needs, adequately balancing short- and long-term goals.
--- A multi-tasker, capable of actively managing a large and complex portfolio of high-value data projects and people.
--- A thoughtful data leader with an intuitive sense of the merit, value, ethics, and risks of all things data
--- A team player who can work collegially with team members at multiple levels and business functions to fully leverage data assets and reduce data risks across the organization.
--- A good communicator and outgoing, capable of participating in panels, conferences, and other business/data enhancement opportunities on behalf of Burford; and.
--- Ambitious and ready to work in a fast-paced environment where data leadership and skills will be fully utilized.


PAY RANGE AND BENEFITS:
Pay Rate*: $140,000.00 to 150,000.00 + bonus
*Pay range offered to a successful candidate will be based on several factors, including the candidate's education, work experience, work location, specific job duties, certifications, etc.

Qualified candidates should APPLY NOW for immediate consideration! Please hit APPLY to provide the required information, and we will be back in touch as soon as possible.
We are currently interviewing to fill this and other similar positions. If this role is not a fit for you, we do offer a referral bonus program for referrals that we successfully place with our clients, subject to program guidelines.
ASK ME HOW
Thank you!

Nancy Shor
SR Technical Recruiter
nshor@momentumrs.com

Benefits: Innova Solutions offers benefits( based on eligibility) that include the following: Medical & pharmacy coverage, Dental/vision insurance, 401(k), Health saving account (HSA) and Flexible spending account (FSA), Life Insurance, Pet Insurance, Short term and Long term Disability, Accident & Critical illness coverage, Pre-paid legal & ID theft protection, Sick time, and other types of paid leaves (as required by law), Employee Assistance Program (EAP).

ABOUT INNOVA SOLUTIONS: Founded in 1998 and headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, Innova Solutions employs approximately 50,000 professionals worldwide and reports an annual revenue approaching $3 Billion. Through our global delivery centers across North America, Asia, and Europe, we deliver strategic technology and business transformation solutions to our clients, enabling them to operate as leaders within their fields.

Recent Recognitions:
--- One of Largest IT Consulting Staffing firms in the USA - Recognized as #4 by Staffing Industry Analysts (SIA 2022)
--- ClearlyRated - Client Diamond Award Winner (2020)
--- One of the Largest Certified MBE Companies in the NMSDC Network (2022)
--- Advanced Tier Services partner with AWS and Gold with MS
Website: https://www.innovasolutions.com/

Innova Solutions is an Equal Opportunity Employer and prohibits any kind of unlawful discrimination and harassment. Innova Solutions is committed to the principle of equal employment opportunity for all employees and to providing employees with a work environment free of discrimination and harassment on the basis of race, color, religion or belief, national origin, citizenship, social or ethnic origin, sex, age, physical or mental disability, veteran status, marital status, domestic partner status, sexual orientation, or any other status protected by the statutes, rules, and regulations in the locations where it operates. If you are an individual with a disability and need a reasonable accommodation to assist with your job search or application for employment, please contact us at hr@innovasolutions.com or (770) 493-5588. Please indicate the specifics of the assistance needed. Innova Solutions encourages all interested and qualified candidates to apply for employment opportunities. Innova Solutions (HireGenics/Volt) does not discriminate against applicants based on citizenship status, immigration status, or national origin, in accordance with 8 U.S.C. - 1324b.

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