Manager, Data & AI Platforms

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• Award-winning culture

• Inclusion and diversity as a priority

• Performance Based Incentive Plans

• Competitive benefits package that includes: Health, Vision, Dental, Short & Long-Term Disability

• Generous PTO (including paid time to volunteer!)

• Up to 9.5% 401(k) employer contribution

• Mental health support

• Career advancement opportunities

• Student loan repayment options

• Tuition reimbursement

• Flexible work environments

*All the benefits listed above are subject to the terms of their individual Plans.

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General Summary:

We’re seeking a strategic and technically savvy Manager, Data & AI Platforms to lead the governance, adoption, optimization, and operational stewardship of our enterprise Data & AI ecosystem.

In this role, you'll drive the strategy and oversight of modern data, analytics, and AI platforms, ensuring they are secure, scalable, cost-effective, and positioned to deliver measurable business value. You'll partner across Data Engineering, Analytics, AI, Architecture, Security, and Governance teams to establish platform standards, improve adoption, optimize investments, and enable innovation across the organization.

The ideal candidate brings a blend of platform expertise, stakeholder leadership, governance experience, and business acumen. You thrive in complex environments, enjoy influencing across teams, and have a passion for turning platform capabilities into business outcomes.

What You'll Drive:

Enterprise governance and operational oversight of Data & AI platforms

Platform adoption, utilization, and value realization

Vendor and stakeholder relationship management

Platform cost optimization and financial accountability

Access management, governance, and compliance

Cross-functional collaboration to support analytics and AI innovation

Scalable processes, standards, and guardrails that enable responsible platform usage

This is a campus-based role requiring 4 days per week onsite.

Job Specifications

• Bachelor’s degree in information technology, mathematics, or statistics preferred.

• 5+ years hands-on experience acting as a Data Engineer, BI Analyst or Data Scientist. Based on specific team composition and goals one discipline may carry more weight than the others.
• Prior leadership and/or management experience preferred.
• Experience with analytics programming languages (SQL/R/Python)
• Experience with modern BI toolsets (Snowflake, Databricks, Tableau, Alteryx, PowerBI, or equivalent)
• In-depth understanding of data profiling, statistical analysis and data modeling concepts
• Adept in extracting, loading and leveraging data in data warehouse, transactional databases, object stores & API based environments
• Data Architecture and Infrastructure: Good understanding of data architecture principles and related infrastructure requirements, covering on-prem and Cloud platforms.
• Strong problem solving, programming and project management skills.
• Excellent ability to interpret or correlate an extensive variety of information and decompose complex analytical and technical problems and translate them into simple business solutions to be presented to key stakeholders.
• Ability to think conceptually, handle ambiguity, solve complex problems and make thoughtful recommendations.
• Excellent communications skills and abilities working with all corporate levels and external contacts.
• Demonstrated mentoring/coaching skills developing technical implementation employees

Principal Duties and Responsibilities

• Own day-to-day management of enterprise Data & AI platforms.
• Establish and enforce platform governance standards, policies, and operating procedures.
• Measure platform utilization, adoption, and value realization across business and technology teams.
• Will oversee the execution of a team's analytics strategy. Guiding their team on the usage of tools, methodologies and ensuring their team is tracking towards goals and project deadlines.
• Oversee the implementation of best practices in support of data & analytics projects to drive consistency and standardization of Data and AI platforms usage.
• Responsible for recruiting, training, performance management, coaching, development and retention of staff within their team.
• Oversees the construction of predictive models, data pipelines and analytics workflows in the support of operational and analytics objectives. Will also meaningfully contribute to the development of these assets as necessary.
• Work with partners to translate business needs into a technical plan, identify available data, communicate findings and results, and develop implementation tactics. Provides consulting support to business areas around conformance to corporate policies/procedures and controls, compliance as needed.
• Understand theory and application of current and emerging analysis methods and data tooling to drive and recommend continuous improvement opportunities.
• Identify internal and external data sources, construct analytical databases and develop data pipelines that enhance business performance.
• Discuss data transformation, integration, and reporting requirements with both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Will oversee the mentoring and training of team members on the usage of statistical methods, tools and development of data assets.
• Perform other related duties as assigned.

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Unum and Colonial Life are part of Unum Group, a Fortune 500 company and leading provider of employee benefits to companies worldwide. Headquartered in Chattanooga, TN, with international offices in Ireland, Poland and the UK, Unum also has significant operations in Portland, ME, and Baton Rouge, LA - plus over 35 US field offices. Colonial Life is headquartered in Columbia, SC, with over 40 field offices nationwide.

Unum is an equal opportunity employer, considering all qualified applicants and employees for hiring, placement, and advancement, without regard to a person's race, color, religion, national origin, age, genetic information, military status, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, disability, or protected veteran status.

The base salary range for applicants for this position is listed below. Unless actual salary is indicated above in the job description, actual pay will be based on skill, geographical location and experience.

Additionally, Unum offers a portfolio of benefits and rewards that are competitive and comprehensive including healthcare benefits (health, vision, dental), insurance benefits (short & long-term disability), performance-based incentive plans, paid time off, and a 401(k) retirement plan with an employer match up to 5% and an additional 4.5% contribution whether you contribute to the plan or not. All benefits are subject to the terms and conditions of individual Plans.

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