Director, Data Strategy (Contract)

Bounteous is a premier end-to-end digital transformation consultancy dedicated to partnering with ambitious brands to create digital solutions for today’s complex challenges and tomorrow’s opportunities. With uncompromising standards for technical and domain expertise, we deliver innovative and strategic solutions in Strategy, Analytics, Digital Engineering, Cloud, Data & AI, Experience Design, and Marketing.
Our Co-Innovation methodology is a unique engagement model designed to align interests and accelerate value creation. Our clients worldwide benefit from the skills and expertise of over 4,000+ expert team members across the Americas, APAC, and EMEA. By partnering with leading technology providers, we craft transformative digital experiences that enhance customer engagement and drive business success.
The Director of Data Strategy will be responsible for the strategic development of digital marketing data ecosystems and for designing robust data warehousing and reporting solutions that meet client business objectives. Within client programs, they will lead cross-functional data teams through the execution and delivery of these solutions, overseeing both onshore and offshore data engineers and BI developers. They will also partner with account leadership and collaborate with Product, Technology, and Marketing practices as needed.
This role will report to the VP of Advanced Analytics and will support the development of a service offering for Customer Data Warehousing & Reporting, from go-to-market strategy through delivery and execution. The Director will contribute directly to larger accounts while also developing the team’s skill sets to scale the capability. As a leader in Data & Analytics, this role will additionally participate in pitches, estimates, and Statements of Work (SOWs) for related projects as needed.

Information Security Responsibilities

• Promote and enforce awareness of key information security practices, including acceptable use of information assets, malware protection, and password security protocols
• Identify, assess, and report security risks, focusing on how these risks impact the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of information assets
• Understand and evaluate how data is stored, processed, or transmitted, ensuring compliance with data privacy and protection standards (GDPR, CCPA, etc.)
• Ensure data protection measures are integrated throughout the information lifecycle to safeguard sensitive information

Role and Responsibilities

• Leads cross-functional engagements, and ensures cohesive delivery across competencies
• Conducts data strategy programming, including assessing data signals, KPI setting, ecosystem and readiness assessments, co-innovation studio sessions, roadmapping deliverables, and value creation cycles
• Assesses client data maturity, understands stakeholder needs, facilitates prioritization, and coordinates a strategic data and agile roadmap of program activities
• Design Marketing Data Warehouses, ingesting data from web analytics, CRM, and media platforms, using appropriate cloud infrastructure for automation, and oversee technical team in execution 
• Design Reporting Suites for marketing data stakeholders, collecting requirements, creating functional wireframes, and tracking change requests, using interactive techniques to collaborate with clients
• Provides perspectives on necessary data advancement recommendations, including business intelligence and statistical analysis, machine learning and AI, or other data activities to support business outcomes
• Uses the results of analysis to communicate program success and persuade account and client stakeholders for expansion and investment, including opportunities for accelerator engagements

Preferred Qualifications

• 6+ years of relevant work experience in digital, consulting, or analytics
• Breadth of experience across cloud technologies (Snowflake, GCP, AWS, Azure) and ability to speak to their capabilities as they relate to customer, digital, and operational data and digital analytics
• Functional expertise with data warehousing in Snowflake and Google Cloud Platform 
• Functional expertise with BI platforms like Tableau, Power BI, Looker Studio 
• Experience incorporating digital marketing data (CRM, Paid Media, Social, etc) into solution design, using various methods of extraction. 
• Knowledge and familiarity with digital analytics platforms (Adobe Analytics, Google Analytics) is preferred 
• Industry knowledge of the advanced analytics landscape
• Understanding of data governance, compliance, and privacy issues
• Maintain subject matter expertise as platforms evolve, including leading development of playbooks and documentation for scaling solutions
• Collaborate with internal marketing team on strategic collateral, collaborative case studies, or other marketing materials
• Work with CSEs and BD to support pitches for new business or additional follow-on work for clients
• Maintain billable utilization while uncovering additional project opportunities

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For employment opportunities based in Canada:Bounteous is an equal opportunity employer. In accordance with the Ontario Human Rights Code and Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act, 2005, accommodation will be provided at any point throughout the hiring process, provided the candidate makes their accommodation needs known to Bounteous. We welcome applications from all qualified candidates. 
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