Data & Analytics Leader

Your Job
A Data & Analytics Leader is responsible for establishing and scaling a cohesive, enterprise-grade analytics capability that enables KES business units to make better, faster, and more consistent decisions. With “Data as the foundation” strategy, this role focuses on business analytics strategy, business intelligence architecture, analytics enablement, and AI readiness, ensuring that data is structured, governed, and understandable enough to support both human-driven analytics and AI-assisted insights. You must show a proven ability to manage complex requirements while understanding the appropriate risk profile of a project to determine the correct solution. Daily challenges will arise that require more soft skill expertise than technical expertise – meaning, you cannot rely on technical aptitude alone to be successful. You must realize and show the ability to understand the business direction, objectives, and parties involved to get to the best outcome. A candidate who is a self-starter and looks to be proactive will be a great fit for this opportunity.
This position is not eligible for Visa Sponsorship.
What You Will Do

Partner with Solution Delivery & Product teams, and Data team peers to recommend and build data products, then lead the technical solutioning process to establish data transformation, semantic layering, and readiness for presentation layer to reach business outcomes.
Leverage expertise in multiple technical domains as part of solutioning process (Software Engineering, Application Review/Selection, Security, Networking, Cloud Infrastructure, etc.)
Experimentation - Identify and experiment with solutions to solve problems new to the organization
Drive data governance practices and frameworks.

Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)

Experience leading data engineers, analytics engineers, data architects, or BI developers in their work.
Experience with data stores (Snowflake, Redshift, PostgreSQL, NoSQL)
Experience with modern cloud-based platforms and tools (AWS, Microsoft, Salesforce, SaaS vendors)
Experience with data modeling, ETL/ELT patterns, schema management.
Familiarity with event-driven architectures, microservices, analytical concepts, AI concepts, cloud technology & services
Proven experience communicating technology in both execution detail and broad concepts to various audiences
Demonstrated capability partnering with customers to understand business and operating models to develop data pipeline proposals.

What Will Put You Ahead

Experience in creating data products & pipeline in discreate engineering & manufacturing
Track record of leading a successful cloud migration or modernization of legacy data/analytics platforms at scale.
Hands-on implementation of data mesh or federated data product architectures.
Experience implementing/leveraging Master Data Management platforms
Experience with Dataiku, dbt, MS Fabric, graph database technology
Experience with operational technology (OT) / IoT data, streaming analytics, and edge-to-cloud integrations
Experience with DevOps methodologies, processes and tools (CI/CD, GitHub, Lean, Azure DevOps)
Bachelor’s degree in CIS, MIS, CS, Engineering, Mathematics or a related field.

At Koch companies, we are entrepreneurs. This means we openly challenge the status quo, find new ways to create value and get rewarded for our individual contributions. Any compensation range provided for a role is an estimate determined by available market data. The actual amount may be higher or lower than the range provided considering each candidate's knowledge, skills, abilities, and geographic location. If you have questions, please speak to your recruiter about the flexibility and detail of our compensation philosophy.
Hiring Philosophy
All Koch companies value diversity of thought, perspectives, aptitudes, experiences, and backgrounds. We are Military Ready and Second Chance employers. Learn more about our hiring philosophy here.
Our Benefits
Our goal is for each employee, and their families, to live fulfilling and healthy lives. We provide essential resources and support to build and maintain physical, financial, and emotional strength - focusing on overall wellbeing so you can focus on what matters most. Our benefits plan includes - medical, dental, vision, flexible spending and health savings accounts, life insurance, ADD, disability, retirement, paid vacation/time off, educational assistance, and may also include infertility assistance, paid parental leave and adoption assistance. Specific eligibility criteria is set by the applicable Summary Plan Description, policy or guideline and benefits may vary by geographic region. If you have questions on what benefits apply to you, please speak to your recruiter.
Additionally, everyone has individual work and personal needs. We seek to enable the best work environment that helps you and the business work together to produce superior results.
Equal Opportunities
Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability and protected veteran status. Except where prohibited by state law, some offers of employment are conditioned upon successfully passing a drug test. This employer uses E-Verify. Please click here for additional information. (For Illinois E-Verify information click here, aquí, or tu).