AVP - MDM, Data Quality & Compliance

Job Posting End Date: May 18

Our Fortune 500 company is driving a digital transformation and looking for forward-thinking innovators to disrupt how our industry thinks about and uses technology. As one of the world's leading employee benefits providers, we help millions of people gain affordable access to benefits that help them protect their families, their finances and their futures.

Are you an asker of questions, a solver of problems, and a challenger of the status quo? Our mission is to provide a differentiated customer experience and exceed the expectations people have of technology at any company — not just insurers. 

We are seeking individuals to join our team of talented IT professionals who share never-ending passion and an unwavering focus on our customer experience. Team members comfortable working in an agile, fast-paced, and delivery-focused environment thrive in our environment where we value an entrepreneurial spirit and those who challenge the status-quo.

Unum is changing, and we’re excited about what’s next. Join us.

General Summary:

Seeking a Data ‘evangelist’ that will promote data as a strategic asset for Unum. This role provides leadership and guidance to multiple agile and/or infrastructure and operations teams that support various business and technical capabilities, services, or functional areas of Data Management.

This role bears responsibility to foster value creation by means of our data assets and external data ecosystem. The associated tasks include: Establishing structure to manage the enterprise data assets and master data management; Enabling all forms of business outcomes through data exploitation; Envisioning data-enabled strategies. They are instrumental in the implementation of the data portfolio roadmap and ongoing portfolio management activity, taking into consideration technical, financial and people resources for successful execution and delivery. They develop and cultivate both IT and business partner relationships and effectively communicate and execute IT plans in support of the IT or business goals and objectives. They lead and develop a large team in distributed locations. This role is to be located in one of our campus locations of Chattanooga TN, Atlanta GA, Columbia SC or Portland ME.

Principal Duties and Responsibilities

• Leads functional areas of IT to build, enhance, transform, or support technology and/or business services by successfully delivering on outcomes.
• Engages in strategic planning with business and IT stakeholders to provide direction, guidance or recommendations on technology and architectural considerations.
• Defines a portfolio of change and roadmap. Engages and influences IT and business leaders to ensure the portfolio will deliver agreed business objectives.
• Collaborates with IT leadership across various disciplines, provides guidance, direction or recommendations to address a wide range of business and technology needs with emphasis on optimized, timely and successful delivery.
• In collaboration with the IT VP, initiates and influences relationships with and between key stakeholders involved in the management and implementation of IT plans, acts as a point of contact for stakeholders, planners, designers, and operational business partners.
• Applies innovative methods utilizing IT assets and capabilities in alignment with the organization’s strategic direction and tactical plans.
• Highly proficient in applying knowledge of IT’s technology framework(s), technical environment, and cross-organizational IT functions in technical choices for a variety of large, strategic efforts.
• In partnership with practice leaders, drives application of the company’s technical and architectural roadmap objectives.
• Leverages deep understanding of IT, emerging technologies, and technical capabilities to guide and influence stakeholders and teams in developing solutions, build, deployment, testing and ongoing management of IT services.
• Ensures capability deliveries are aligned across business functions and within multiple agile and/or operational teams for execution and delivery success.
• In support of the management team, takes bold action to ensure a strong, diverse talent and leadership pipeline is in place to meet aggressive business goals. Develops, coaches and engages people to higher levels of performance.
• Understands the needs of a self-organizing team (cross-functioning, partners with the business, collaborative, works quickly and unencumbered, be empowered and autonomous, be able to focus on self-improvement) and supports the management activities that make self-organizat