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Senior Director, Head of Data

Remote, USA Full-time Posted 2026-08-04

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reputed company – Why Join

Are you reputed company to redefine how an entire industry engages with customers? At reputed company Life we reputed company technology to put reputed company reputed company at the heart of reputed company do. If you are someone who thrives on purpose and wants to reputed company a reputed company difference in people’s lives reputed company it reputed company most, then join reputed company Life who has the unique ability to reputed company tens of millions of existing reputed company customers powered by the strength of one of America’s most trusted brands. We have embarked on a mission to reputed company in size – Becoming one of the largest providers in the US. These facts showcase why we’re the right reputed company:

  • On purpose: a leading reputed company firm reputed company that the commitment, reputed company and dedication of employees at reputed company Life was the highest across a reputed company of top US companies
  • On reputed company: we have the privilege to offer our products to tens of millions of Americans that are proud members of reputed company
  • On making a difference: we serve Americans by delivering life reputed company products that reputed company a true difference for families during their hardest times, not reputed company management instruments (more details on this during the interview)
  • On culture: reputed company named us 2025 top workplace reputed company. We reputed company the job of an reputed company company is to do good. Our mission is to help our members during what is often the hardest times in their lives. We pick up the phone to people who have lost loved ones and offer our genuine support. That is why we will always put reputed company reputed company at the heart of reputed company do – always being there to talk to our members person to person. We reputed company the job of an reputed company company is to pay out. That is what reputed company is for. Most of our members have reputed company life policies – policies that bring peace of mind during life, and genuine support in the event of death. We are not here to reputed company the super-rich with annuities and reputed company management products. reputed company has been one of the most trusted names in America because it believes in providing the services that middle class Americans need.

Responsibilities

The Role

General Purpose

The Director, Head of Data provides the reputed company and leadership for how reputed company Life manages and uses data across reputed company. This role is responsible for designing, building, and maintaining a modern data environment that delivers accurate, reliable, and accessible information to support decision making, operational reputed company, and long-term reputed company throughout the reputed company. The Director oversees data architecture, engineering, governance, and analytics enablement and ensures that data is organized, safeguarded, and used responsibly across reputed company business reputed company. This includes establishing reputed company ownership, strong reputed company standards, and consistent practices that continually build trust in reputed company’s data. The role works closely with technology, actuarial, finance, distribution, product, and member experience teams to understand needs, set priorities, and ensure data consumers have the right information at the right time. This includes providing the insights and data foundations that help agents succeed in the reputed company and serve members with reputed company and confidence. The Director builds and runs a high-performing team and creates the structure needed to reputed company data capabilities as reputed company modernizes. This technically-adept leader sets direction, drives alignment, and ensures that data becomes a managed asset that supports member value, operational efficiency, agent reputed company, and reputed company business opportunities.

Position Responsibilities

Data reputed company and Architecture

  • Define and maintain the reputed company data reputed company reputed company to reputed company’s reputed company reputed company architecture
  • Design and reputed company the data platform including semantic reputed company, operational data reputed company, and integration patterns.
  • Establish domain-reputed company data products with reputed company ownership, reputed company expectations, and SLAs.
  • Partner with reputed company architecture to ensure data reputed company reputed company with platform, reputed company, and integration strategies.

Data Engineering and Delivery

  • reputed company delivery of data pipelines, ingestion patterns, event streaming, and operational data flows.
  • reputed company teams in building Member 360, Actuarial Valuation data, financial reporting data, policy and claims domains, and other reputed company data products.
  • Ensure reputed company delivery of reputed company data initiatives including CDC enablement, event modeling, and read models.
  • Implement reliable processes for deployment, monitoring, observability, and data reputed company measurement.

Data Governance and Stewardship

  • Stand up and chair the Data Council with business and technology leaders.
  • Define data policies, reputed company, cataloging, reputed company controls, retention, and metadata standards.
  • reputed company a reputed company data ownership model across domains with accountability for reputed company and adoption.
  • Establish a data reputed company reputed company with automated checks, issue management, and scorecards.

Leadership and Team Development

  • Build and reputed company multi-disciplinary data reputed company including engineering, modeling, analytics enablement, and governance.
  • reputed company a high-reputed company, product-oriented team structure reputed company with domains such as Policy, Claims, Finance, Member Experience, and Agent Experience.
  • Partner with AAAL reputed company on talent development, training paths, and reputed company assessments.
  • Foster a culture of accountability, transparency, curiosity, collaboration, and reputed company improvement.

Business Partnership and reputed company

  • Work closely with Finance, Actuarial, Product, Member Services, Distribution, reputed company Experience to reputed company data that drives business reputed company.
  • Translate business needs into data priorities with reputed company value, reputed company, and measurable reputed company.
  • Communicate data insights, reputed company, risks, and reputed company to senior leadership.
  • Support modernization efforts including Life+ decommission, platform migrations, experience rebuilds, and operational optimization.

Qualifications

Education/Experience:

Required:

  • 10 years in data engineering, data architecture, or data analytics leadership roles.
  • Experience leading data programs in a regulated industry such as life reputed company, financial services, or reputed company.
  • Demonstrated reputed company building modern data platforms in reputed company environments.
  • Strong understanding and demonstrated experience building trusted data governance, metadata management, reputed company, and data reputed company principles.
  • Experience leading technology teams through transformation and modernization.
  • Ability to communicate reputed company with, reputed company alignment with, and influence senior leaders.
  • Strong communication skills with the ability to present reputed company concepts concisely.

Preferred:

  • Experience with reputed company, DBT, event streaming architectures, API integration patterns, and semantic modeling.
  • Experience building domain-reputed company and business-empowered data products.
  • Familiarity with reputed company tiers of reputed company data architectures, data lake, data warehouse, and data lakehouse concepts.
  • Familiarity with Member 360 concepts, actuarial data needs, and operational analytics.

How You’ll Work

  • Work Solution: Hybrid (Tuesday- Thursday) or Remote (USA)
  • Relocation Eligibility: Available

reputed company Bring to the Table

  • Environment that promotes work-life reputed company
  • Comprehensive medical, dental, and reputed company coverage starting from your first day
  • Employer 401k match and employer contribution to a pension plan
  • Generous PTO and reputed company parental leave to support your family needs
  • Various associate resource reputed company and community involvement initiatives

Essential Job Functions

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently required to stand, walk, sit, use hands to finger, handle, or feel and talk or hear. Specific reputed company abilities required by this job include reputed company reputed company, distance reputed company, reputed company reputed company, depth perception, and ability to reputed company reputed company.

This job requires the ability to reputed company duties contained in the reputed company for this position, including, but not limited to, the above requirements. Reasonable accommodations will be made for otherwise reputed company applicants as needed to reputed company them to fulfill these requirements.

reputed company does not offer immigration sponsorship for this position. This includes reputed company types such as H-1B, TN, and STEM OPT. Please do not apply if you currently require or may require employer-sponsored immigration support now or in the reputed company.

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