Head of Data, M&A Data Migration

Company Description

Zayo provides mission-critical bandwidth to the world’s most impactful companies, fueling the innovations that are transforming our society. Zayo’s 141,000-mile network in North America and Europe includes extensive metro connectivity to thousands of buildings and data centers. Zayo’s communications infrastructure solutions include dark fiber, private data networks, wavelengths, Ethernet, and dedicated Internet access. Zayo serves wireless and wireline carriers, media, tech, content, finance, healthcare and other large enterprises.

The Head of Data, M&A Data Migration is an executive role responsible for leading the end-to-end data migration activities related to mergers, acquisitions, and divestitures. This role will be critical in ensuring the successful integration and/or separation of data across multiple business systems while maintaining data integrity, security, compliance, and business continuity.  

This role will work cross-functionally with M&A Integration, IT, Business Units, and external partners to design and execute data migration strategies aligned with business objectives and timelines. This role will focus on the alignment of data definitions across the acquired processes and systems, with special focus on master, reference and metric data definitions. They will also lead data engineers and analysts, including third party personnel, in meeting objectives. 

Additionally, this role will involve leading a team of data engineers to ensure the effective long-term collection, storage, and analysis of data to support business objectives. It will be instrumental in steering the company's data engineering and architecture agenda and advising on data technical vision and strategy. This role is crucial in developing and implementing data infrastructure, systems, and strategies that enable efficient data processing, data integration, and data governance. They are responsible for designing and maintaining scalable data architectures, data pipelines, and data warehouses to support the organization's data needs. 

Our Head of Data, M&A Data Migration will also work closely with data scientists, analysts, and other stakeholders to understand their requirements and ensure that data is accessible, reliable, and properly structured for analysis and decision-making. They also monitor industry trends, new technologies, and emerging best practices in data engineering to drive innovation and continuous improvement within the department. 

Strong leadership, strategic thinking, and technical expertise are essential for this role. They must have a deep understanding of data engineering concepts, programming languages, database technologies, cloud platforms, and data governance principles. They should also possess excellent communication and managerial skills to effectively lead and inspire their team and collaborate with cross-functional teams throughout the organization. 

Key responsibilities   

Strategy & Leadership: 

• Define and own the enterprise data migration strategy for all M&A initiatives. 

• Serve as the data migration authority during post-deal integration/separation (both pre- and post-close). 

• Identify cost-effective data platforms, tools, and processes to support data migration including confidential clean-room procedures. 

• Collaborate with senior leadership, integration teams, and technology leads to align on goals and priorities. 

• Build, lead, and mentor a high-performing data migration team (internal and/or third-party) and in-time, assuming leadership for a high-performing data engineering team. This includes hiring and retaining top talent, setting performance expectati