Functional Lead – Data Transformation

Job description

**About Us**

**Since 1989, SHI International Corp.

has helped organizations change the world through technology.

We’ve grown every year since, and today we’re proud to be a $15 billion global provider of IT solutions and services.**

**Over 17,000 organizations worldwide rely on SHI’s concierge approach to help them solve what’s next.** **But the heartbeat of SHI is our employees – all 6,000 of them.** **If you join our team, you’ll enjoy:**

+ **Our commitment to diversity, as the largest minority- and woman-owned enterprise in the U.S.**
+ **Continuous professional growth and leadership opportunities.**
+ **Health, wellness, and financial benefits to offer peace of mind to you and your family.**
+ **World-class facilities and the technology you need to thrive – in our offices or yours.**

**Job Summary**

We are seeking a strategic and execution-focused Functional Lead for Data Transformation to drive data alignment and delivery across a large-scale enterprise transformation initiative.

This director-level role will serve as the primary liaison between business stakeholders and technical teams, ensuring that data requirements are clearly defined, prioritized, and aligned with the organization’s long-term data vision.

The Functional Lead- Data Transformation must demonstrate strong leadership, analytical thinking, and problem-solving skills to drive change management initiatives and ensure successful implementation across SHI’s systems.

Role Description

+ Lead structured elicitation sessions with business leads and functional SMEs to capture, evaluate, and prioritize data needs across workstreams.
+ Ensure proposed changes meet communication, testing, validation, and sign-off requirements during weekly reviews.
+ Develop and enforce Change Management policies to standardize procedures and authorization levels for various changes.​
+ Coordinate program-specific data requirements with the organization’s North Star data strategy, ensuring consistency, scalability, and reusability of data assets.
+ Coordinate with vendor relationship owners on production changes affecting SHI’s systems.
+ Partner with business process owners, IT architects, and transformation leaders to translate business needs into actionable data deliverables.
+ Conduct impact analyses and assess change readiness to identify key stakeholders and areas of resistance.
+ Establish and enforce data governance practices, including data definitions, quality standards, and lineage documentation.
+ Proactively identify data-related risks and blockers, and drive resolution through cross-functional collaboration.
+ Collaborate with PMO, change management, and solution design teams to embed data transformation milestones into the broader program roadmap.
+ Liaise between Change and Major Incident management for critical issues and outages.

Behaviors and Competencies

+ Collaboration: Can proactively seek out diverse perspectives, facilitate open communication among team members, and drive toward consensus and action.
+ Analytical Thinking: Can synthesize complex data, identify patterns, draw insights, and present findings clearly and understandably.
+ Problem-Solving: Can proactively identify potential problems, initiate preventive measures, and propose and contribute to innovative solutions.
+ Leadership: Can proactively seek out leadership roles, initiate team projects, and contribute to team development and success.
+ Impact and Influence: Can influence others to support specific goals or objectives.
+ Conflict Resolution: Can facilitate conflict resolution between teams or departments.
+ Negotiation: Can proactively seek out negotiation opportunities, initiate discussions, and contribute to conflict resolution.
+ Listening: Can actively engage in listening by asking clarifying questions and providing feedback that shows a deep understanding of the conversation.
+ Planning: Can proactively seek out challenges, initiate planning processes, and contribute to innovative planning strategies.
+ Critical Thinking: Can apply critical thinking skills to complex problems, identifying logical and illogical reasoning, and making strategic decisions.
+ Change Management: Can drive significant changes in organizational processes or policies, can facilitate change management processes among others, and can adapt change management style based on the situation and the team’s needs.

Skill Level Requirements

+ Proven ability to lead cross-functional data initiatives in complex, matrixed environments.
+ Strong facilitation and communication skills, with experience engaging executive stakeholders.
+ Familiarity with enterprise data platforms, data governance frameworks, and transformation methodologies
+ Ability to oversee and direct projects to completion, ensuring goals are met, resources are utilized efficiently, and stakeholders are satisfied.

- Intermediate
+ Experience in various project management frameworks such as Agile, Waterfall, and Scrum to effectively plan, execute, and close projects.

- Intermediate
+ Ability to build and maintain relationships with key stakeholders, ensuring collaborative success and strategic alignment.

- Intermediate

Other Requirements

+ Completed Bachelor’s Degree or relevant work experience required
+ 10+ years of experience in data management, business analysis, or enterprise transformation roles.
+ Advanced certification, such as the following, is a plus:
+ PMP, Project Management Professional
+ CBIP, Certified Business Intelligence Professional

The base salary range for this position is $140,000 - $185,000.The compensation for this position is dependent on job-related knowledge, skills, experience, and market location and, therefore, will vary from individual to individual.

Benefits may include, but are not limited to, medical, vision, dental, 401K, and flexible spending.

Equal Employment Opportunity – M/F/Disability/Protected Veteran Status

Required Skill Profession

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