Senior Director, Digital Transformation

DescriptionJob duties: * Lead consulting engagements with top-tier clients in insurance, financial services, and other industries. * Build and maintain strong relationships with stakeholders, ensuring alignment of data initiatives with overarching business strategies and objectives. * Define data transformation strategies, roadmaps, and architectures to modernize data ecosystems. * Advise on best-in-class data platforms, tools, and technologies to enable advanced analytics and data-driven decision-making. * Drive measurable improvements in revenue, cost optimization, risk management, and customer experience through data and analytics solutions. * Establish metrics and KPIs to track the success of transformation initiatives. * Collaborate with data scientists and analytics teams to ensure models and algorithms align with business requirements. * Stay current with AI/ML trends, especially Generative AI and Agentic and Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) flows, to advise on cutting-edge applications that unlock new opportunities for clients. * Manage and mentor cross-functional teams, including data engineers, data scientists, and business analysts. * Provide thought leadership and executive-level communication on project status, risks, and mitigation strategies. * Serve as a trusted advisor on modern data and analytics technologies, influencing the broader market perspective. * Participate in industry events, workshops, and conferences to showcase expertise and build brand recognition. * Internal leadership in building capabilities and adoption of modern data and (Gen)AI tools and techniques * Telecommuting permitted more than 50% from local area * Up to 80% unanticipated travel to U.S.-based client sites Requirements:Education: * Bachelors degree, or foreign equivalent, in Computer Science, Information Systems, Data Science, Engineering, Business Analytics, or a related fieldExperience: * 10 years of experience in a data leadership or data transformation-related role.Special Skills/other Requirements: * 10 years of experience leading data strategy, analytics, or data governance initiatives * Experience leading data transformation, data management, or data governance initiatives * Experience working within financial services industries (including insurance, banking, or wealth management) or other regulated environments * Experience applying data transformation principles across multiple industries (e.g., retail, healthcare, manufacturing) * Experience working with data architecture, data governance frameworks, and data quality methodologies * Experience with modern data platforms, including data integration, storage, processing, and visualization technologies * Experience working with cloud-based data platforms (e.g., Snowflake, Databricks, BigQuery, or similar) * Experience with data science lifecycle processes, analytics methodologies, or artificial intelligence applications (including generative AI) * Experience presenting data or technology strategies to executive leadership and communicating technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders SSA & Company provides a competitive salary range for our open requisitions. Actual salary is influenced by a wide array of factors including but not limited to skill set, experience, training, education, and other business and organizational needs. The range of starting annual salary for this role is $270,000. Decisions will be determined on a case-by-case basis.