VP Data Platforms and Services

What You Need To Know

Open the door to a groundbreaking tech career with an industry leader. Southern Glazer’s Wine & Spirits is North America’s preeminent wine and spirits distributor, as well as a family-owned, privately held company with a 50+ year legacy of success. To create a new era in alcohol beverage sales and service, we’re heavily invested in the most transformative new technologies – and the most brilliant tech professionals. Southern Glazer’s was named by Newsweek as a Most Loved Workplace and is included on the Forbes lists for Largest Private Companies and Best Employers for Diversity.

As a full-time employee, you can choose from a full menu of our Top Shelf Benefits, including comprehensive medical and prescription drug coverage, dental and vision plans, tax-saving Flexible Spending Accounts, disability coverage, life insurance plans, and a 401(k) plan. We also offer tuition reimbursement, a wellness program, parental leave, vacation accrual, paid sick leave, and more.

We offer continuous learning and career growth in a fast-paced environment where you are respected, your voice is heard, and technology is part of our strategy for success. If you’re looking to fill your glass with opportunity, come join our FAMILY.

Overview

Seeking an experienced and motivated Data Platforms & Services Leader with a strong background in data platforms and analytics. The successful candidate will play a pivotal role in shaping and driving high velocity data platforms, and has competencies in technical, strategic, and interpersonal skills. As a Data Platforms & Services Leader Systems Leader, you will lead a team of skilled professionals, collaborate with cross-functional teams, and ensure the delivery of high-quality, secure, and performant data platforms and analytics.

Primary Responsibilities

• Execute the shared vision for the data platform and Data & Analytics CoE
• Work closely with multiple digital/analytics use-case development teams and business stakeholders (Data & Analytics CoE, Digital, Commercial, and business and functional) to deliver business outcomes
• Lead the technical design of an enterprise data platform to support the global organization; develop and maintain the data layer
• Implement new data collection process (e.g., purchase of new data sets) and develop new ingestion processes
• Manage / execute data integrations and access to data
• Modernize systems and identify obsolete applications to reduce tech debt
• Manage and improve the overall platform by creating self-service capabilities
• Build, grow and nurture the engineering product teams in technical direction, culture and effective ways of working including Agile/DevOps/DataOps practices
• Measure solutions propagation and adherence of best practices, apprenticeship and employee satisfaction
• Interpret technology and market trends to evolve and define the digital and data platform roadmap
• Data Integration & Implementation
• Data Quality & Simplification
• Assist all relevant stakeholders in accessing data to unlock/enable digital use cases

Minimum Qualifications

• 10+ years of leadership experience influencing senior level stakeholders and service partners  
• Proficient understanding of vendor management and delivering services effectively and efficiently through third parties   
• Experience with BI tools (e.g. MS Power BI, Tableau etc), data streaming, warehousing, and persistence technologies
• Experience with cloud and PaaS, AWS preferred
• 10-15+ years of experience related to data and analytics platform and use case design, build and support
• Proven track record of leading and mentoring multi-disciplinary engineering teams to production level delivery software within the context of complex organizations
• Exceptional leadership and team management skills
• Strong communication skills, catering to both technical and non-technical audiences
• Experience with data analytics and sharing platforms such as AWS Redshift, Informatica Power Center, Hadoop S3, P360, C360

Physical Demands

• Physical demands include a considerable amount of time sitting and typing/keyboarding, using a computer (e.g., keyboard, mouse, and monitor), or mobile device
• Physical demands with activity or condition may occasionally include walking, bending, reaching, standing, squatting, and stooping
• May require occasional lifting/lowering, pushing, carrying, or pulling up to 20lbs

EEO Statement

Southern Glazer's Wine and Spirits, an Affirmative Action/EEO employer, prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type and provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, r