Principal - Data Management .
Ally and Your Career
The Opportunity
As a Principal of a highly motivated Data Management team under a centrally created Data Solutions Support team for Deposits & Invest, you will be responsible for driving next gen data management and analytical solutions for Ally’s Deposits & Invest business. You will be responsible for working with cross functional IT and business teams to build a centralized data solution in next gen data warehousing technology and build a scalable Business Intelligence solution.
The Work Itself
- Responsible for leading and mentoring a team of data management analysts responsible providing support to Ally’s Deposits & Invest team.
- Partner with the operational leaders and strategy analysts to provide data support and gather requirements to centralize business curated metrics in Ally’s cloud data warehouse in Snowflake.
- Prioritize data stories with enterprise data and analytics IT team and work as a data product owner to manage sprint deliverables and deliver high quality data products.
- Experience and working knowledge in extracting data from traditional data warehouse, big data ecosystems and cloud data warehouses to produce critical data for business analyst executives and operational leaderships.
- Possess Data Warehousing principals and concepts to help build reporting data marts in Snowflake data warehouse.
- Drive data quality and testing / validation strategy for all data curated for analytics and business usage purpose and drive 100% quality on data.
- Lead critical data stewardship activities & drive collection of data governance artifacts, such as Metadata, Data Lineage and build data quality rules.
- Advanced working knowledge of SQL, SAS, and Databases with the ability to write complex SQL statements to build data tables and produce reports.
- Must possess experience with Agile methodologies and concepts to manage team’s workload and projects effectively.
- Ability to display complex quantitative data in a simple, intuitive format and to present findings in a clear and concise manner
- Ensure stability, performance and support of production reporting and meet demand for data across Analytic teams
- Stays current with industry trends and leads development of key data/analytics innovation platforms
The Skills You Bring
- Bachelor’s Degree in the field of Computer Science, MIS, IT or Engineering
- At least 8 + years of experience in key areas of data management including master data, metadata, data architecture, data governance, data lineage, data quality, data modeling, data standards, data strategy.
- At least 6+ years of experience in building data warehousing projects and experience with at least 1 cloud data warehouse such as Snowflake, Red Shift
- At least 6+ years of programming experience in ANSI SQL, Advanced SQL skills and Python and/or R, SAS.
- At least 6+ years of experience in Data platforms including Snowflake (Preferred), Alation, Collibra, Cloudera Hadoop, Data Science Workbench, RStudio
- Familiarity with Business intelligence tools such as Power BI, Tableau.
- Master’s Degree in the field of Computer Science, MIS, IT or Engineering.
- At least 6+ years of experience and hands on advanced programming language such as Python/SAS
How We'll Have Your Back
Ally's compensation program offers market-competitive base pay and pay-for-performance incentives (bonuses) based on achieving personal and company goals. Our Total Rewards program includes industry-leading compensation and benefits plus additional incentives that are designed to meet your needs and those of your family so you can get the most out of your career and your life, including:
- Time Away: 11 paid holidays, 20 paid time off days, and 8 hours of volunteer time off, yearly (paid time off is prorated based on start date)
- Planning for the Future: plan for the near and long term with an industry-leading 401K retirement savings plan with matching and company contributions, student loan pay downs and 529 educational save up assistance programs, tuition reimbursement, employee stock purchase plan, and financial learning center and financial coach access.
- Supporting your Health & Well-being: flexible health and insurance options including medical, dental and vision, employee, spouse and child life insurance, short- and long-term disability, pre-tax Health Savings Account with employer contributions, Healthcare FSA, critical illness, accident & hospital indemnity insurance, and a total well-being program that helps you and your family stay on track physically, socially, emotionally, and financially.
- Building a Family: adoption, surrogacy and fertility assistance as well as paid parental and caregiver leave, Dependent Day Care FSA back-up child and adult/elder care days and childcare discounts.
- Work-Life Integration: other benefits including Mentally Fit Employee Assistance Program, subsidized and discounted Weight Watchers® program and other employee discount programs.
- Other compensations: depending on the role for which you are considered, you may be eligible for travel allowances, relocation assistance, a signing bonus and/or equity.
- To view more detailed information about Ally’s Total Rewards, please visit this link: https://www.ally.com/content/dam/pdf/corporate/ally-total-rewards-snapshot.pdf
Who We Are:
Ally Financial is a customer-centric, leading digital financial services company with passionate customer service and innovative financial solutions. We are relentlessly focused on "Doing it Right" and being a trusted financial-services provider to our consumer, commercial, and corporate customers. For more information, visit www.ally.com.
Ally is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, race, color, sex, religion, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, pregnancy status, marital status, military or veteran status, genetic disposition or any other reason protected by law.
We are committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodation to applicants with physical or mental disabilities. For accommodation requests, email us at work@ally.com. Ally will not discriminate against any qualified individual who is capable of performing the essential functions of the job with or without reasonable accommodation.