[Remote] Sr. Manager, Data & Analytics

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Foot Locker is a global sports and style retailer seeking an experienced Senior Manager, Data & Analytics to lead enterprise data platform development and operations. The role will manage a global data engineering team, shape data platform strategy, and design scalable architectures, pipelines, and analytics solutions across Azure, Snowflake, Databricks, and related technologies.

Responsibilities

• Lead a global data engineering team, manage all day-to-day data engineering and data operations on the Data platforms globally, ensuring optimum end-user experience and business continuity whilst mitigating risks and meeting delivery milestones
• Mentor, support, and manage team members and ensure they follow well architected principles focused on Operational Excellence, Cost optimization, Metadata Management, Security, Reliability and Performance efficiency
• Design, document, and build reusable components and frameworks at scale to support analytics products
• Design, document and implement product features in collaboration with Products, business and Technology teams
• Design and build Canonical Data and Dimensional Modeling at an Enterprise level to support various analytics initiatives such as Descriptive, Diagnostic/Exploratory and Predictive analytics capabilities
• Participating, recommending best practices in all phases of DevOps architectural activities, including concept definition, requirements analysis, design, development, integration, installation, operations, maintenance, and decommissioning
• Be a thought leader by helping to define purpose-built Data Platform strategy and lead, influence other solution Architects and Engineers towards building best in class Data and Analytics platforms
• Design Data Architecture leveraging Microsoft Azure, Snowflake and Databricks native capabilities to support Batch and Streaming pipelines for Analytics, Data Sharing, Data Science and API use cases

Skills

• * Bachelor's degree in computer science or related field
• * 12 years of experience in Data Architecture, Dimensional Modeling and understanding Data Ingestion and transformation design patterns and frameworks
• * 5 years' experience in a public cloud environment with a focus around Data Architecture and Big Data Technologies
• * Prior experience working with Event driven Architecture and solutions including ETL, ELT, Master Data Management, Reference Data Management, and Metadata Management
• * Implementation experience and expert knowledge in Snowflake and Databricks platforms focused on modern data architecture approaches, Data Pipelines & enabling AI, BI and Analytics solutions using Snowflake native capabilities
• * Demonstrated Influential leadership experience driving architecture solutions for various data and analytics use cases and influencing multiple stakeholders
• * Analytical and problem-solving skills
• * Acute attention to detail
• At this time, Foot Locker will not sponsor a new applicant for employment authorization, or offer any immigration related support for this position (i.e. H1B, F-1 OPT, F-1 STEM OPT, F-1 CPT, J-1, TN, or another type of work authorization)
• * Public cloud experience, preferably Azure, AWS, or Google preferred
• * Prior Retail Industry experience is preferred
• * Prior experience operating in an Agile Scrum methodology is preferred
• * Previous experience at a fortune 500 company is preferred

Benefits

• Employee Discount
• Paid Time Off
• Medical | Dental | Vision Coverage
• 401(k) | Roth 401(k)
• Stock Purchase Plan
• Life Insurance
• Flexible Spending Account
• Opportunities for Advancement
• Tuition Reimbursement for Qualified Courses
• Strong Company Culture
• Employee Resource Groups

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