Manager - Data Tools Administration

Holman is a family-owned, global automotive services organization anchored by our deeply rooted core values and principles that have enabled us to continue Driving What’s Right throughout the last century. Our teams deliver the Holman Experience by treating our customers and each other as we would like to be treated, and creating positive, rewarding relationships all around.

The automotive markets Holman serves include fleet management and leasing; vehicle fabrication and upfitting; component manufacturing and productivity solutions; powertrain distribution and logistics services; commercial and personal insurance and risk management; and retail automotive sales as one of the largest privately owned dealership groups in the United States.

Holman has an outstanding opportunity for a Manager – Data Tools Administration to join the team.
 

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Project Management:
  • Project Planning and Execution: Develop detailed project plan containing timelines, resources, milestones, and deliverables. Includes tracking progress, communicating status to project stakeholders, and identifying risks and mitigation strategies
  • Resource Management: Ensure that right people, skills, and tools are available for the project. Includes managing spend as well ensuring resources are utilized optimally, addressing any resource gaps
  • Quality Assurance and Deliverable Validation: Conduct code reviews, oversee testing (functional and non-functional), and quality control processes ensuring deliverables meet defined requirements, are free of defects, and follow defined best practices
• Agile Project Management:
  • Lead projects from inception to completion using Agile methodologies
  • Define project scope, objectives, and deliverables in collaboration with stakeholders
  • Develop detailed project plans, including sprints, timelines, and resource allocation
  • Facilitate Agile ceremonies such as daily stand-ups, sprint planning, and retrospectives
  • Monitor project progress, manage risks, and implement corrective actions as needed
  • Communicate project status, updates, and issues to stakeholders and senior management
• Team Building:
  • Team Development and Leadership: Establish clear roles, responsibilities, reporting structures and performance expectations, manage team dynamics and resolve conflicts, facilitate team bonding and collaboration activities, providing development opportunities for growth
  • Knowledge and Culture Management: Foster a collaborative and inclusive team culture, establish knowledge sharing practices, organize learning sessions, facilitate continuous learning, promote best practice and lessons learned and manage cultural diversity and remote team dynamics
  • Motivating and Supporting Team Morale: Recognize and celebrate achievements, reward success and provide support during challenges, regular and timely feedback, ensure work life balance
• Business Acumen:
  • Demonstrate strong business acumen by understanding organizational goals, market trends, and financial principles, translating business needs into technology solutions, and driving initiatives that deliver measurable value and competitive advantage
• Communication:
  • Communicate with management, end-users or customer to define system requirements, and establish/maintain an effective and proactive relationship with end-users and key stakeholders to keep current with business goals within responsible areas for most business processes
  • Conduct project presentations and compile reports
  • Track, follows-up and report metrics for all projects and cases assigned; status, effort, percent complete, slippage, project effort, duration to completion
  • Communicates roadblocks quickly and provides alternatives for resolution for most business process
  • Liaison with other technology teams within the organization as necessary to support projects for which there are dependencies or adjacencies

• IT Technical skills:
  • Responsible for ensuring that platforms managed by this team have sufficient, and verified DR and HA capabilities to meet business SLA’s and support annual DR tests
  • Responsible for assessing and planning appropriate performance and scalability capabilities platforms managed by this team to ensure they meet business SLA’s
  • Ensures that platforms managed by this team are being monitored and makes recommendations for corrective action
  • Ensures that proper data security best pr