Head of Data

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THE POSITION
This position will be responsible for developing and governing our enterprise-wide data strategy and execution in order to drive business decisions and growth. This role will oversee data utilization while driving innovation that creates value for the organization through data. In addition, responsibilities will include leading inter-disciplinary teams, improving and streamlining data systems within the company, and and evangelizing our data strategy.
SOME OF WHAT YOU'LL BE DOING
Responsible for developing and executing the Data Strategy for LendingTree.
Responsible for establishing an integrated Data Strategy that is aligned with the overall business strategy.
Closely interact with the members of the business and technical senior management team to ensure that Data concerns and priorities are addressed to achieve business objectives of the organizations supported.
Create a real-time data capability that enables systems and customer support teams to act instantly on consumer and third party generated data.
Create and continually update 3-5 year outlook on industry and data/technology evolution and strategy.
Responsible for strategic level engagement and roll-up of all budgeting and forecasting across areas of responsibilities.
Maintain responsibility for the data systems and technology to support a data management practice.
Create and maintain data governance discipline across the company to ensure a consistent view of data across the organization.
RESPONSIBILITIES
Provides vision, strategy and policy guidance for data acquisition, data usage and data management activities.
Responsible for overall Data creation and standardization strategy, including intake, business rules-based transformation, data governance/integrity, architecture, and customer tools/applications in accordance with the company’s business goals and objectives and in a manner that maximizes utility for customers.
Delivers strategic and tactical planning, focusing on solutions for current and future business data practice problems.
Rolls out enterprise-wide data governance framework, with focus on organization, policies, principles and standards, and governance metrics.
Facilitates the development of data standards and adoption requirements.
Monitors and promotes best practices related to information asset management.
Identifies new business opportunities through the analysis of data.
Provides support to technology organization relating to data management and analytics.
Identify data/technology needs and create project plans to execute and support the business strategy.
Establish and maintain strategic working relationships with senior business leaders, outside companies and/or software/data vendors.
Translate business strategies into data/information solutions, justifying and selling those strategies and then managing implementation and ongoing use.
QUALIFICATIONS
Extensive experience leading large, complex technology projects, including strategic and tactical planning and implementation, analysis, design, package selection and deployment.
Proven Data Governance track record with an emphasis on data policies, standards, and processes design, administration and compliance monitoring.
Strong exp. with Data Integration, Data Warehouse and Business Intelligence program development and implementation.
Extensive experience working with a wide range of partners to make surethe data capabilities are meeting their needs in order for the business to be successful
Extensive experience with multiple data/technology platforms.
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or equivalent trade-off in related professional work experience. Masters preferred.
Actively seeks new technology options and approaches to business issues.
Drives passion and develops a following for change
CULTURE
We’re a fast-paced company with an entrepreneurial bend. We work hard and test our products often. We’re collaborative, ambitious, candid and high-energy. Our teammates are some of the brightest, most talented people you’ll ever work with. We care more about your smarts than we do about the kinds of clothes you wear (but please, do wear clothes to work!), and we’re pretty good about rewarding innovation, creativity and the knack for just getting stuff done (we even have an award for employees called the GSD, “Get Stuff Done”).
Come work with us!
LendingTree is the kind of company that not only promotes diversity and inclusion; we thrive because of these values. We do not discriminate based on race, color, religion (or creed), gender, gender expression, age, national origin, disability, marital status, sexual orientation or military status.

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