Senior Director, IT - Data Technologies

Our values start with our people, join a team that values you!

Bring your talents to Ross, our leading off‑price retail chain with over 2,200 stores, and a strong track record of success and growth. Our focus has always been bringing our customers a constant stream of high‑quality brands and on‑trend merchandise at extraordinary savings. All while providing a fun and exciting treasure hunt experience.

As part of our team, you will experience:

• Success. Our winning team pursues excellence while learning and evolving
• Career growth. We develop industry leading talent because Ross grows when our people grow
• Teamwork. We work together to solve the hard problems and find the right solution
• Our commitment to Diversity, Equality & Inclusion, and our community. We celebrate the backgrounds, identities, and ideas of those who work and shop with us because our differences make us stronger. We strive to be a positive force in our community.

Our Corporate headquarters are in Dublin, CA, we have 3 buying offices in key markets in New York City, Los Angeles, and Boston, and 8 distribution centers nationwide. With 2023 revenues of $20.4 billion, we are a Fortune 500 company who is committed to providing an inclusive work environment with continuous learning opportunities and development for our teams.

The Sr. Director, IT Data Technologies, will lead our data technology portfolio, inclusive of business intelligence and analytics platform management. This role will be a hybrid work model located in our corporate office in Dublin, CA &, and will report to the GVP, IT Enterprise Data Technology.

The ideal candidate will be a thought leader for the direction of Ross' data & analytics solution strategy & roadmap. The candidate should have a proven track record in selecting & implementing modern cloud analytics capabilities with a focus on business value & efficiency. They will bring a well‑rounded leadership perspective, capable of building, guiding, and inspiring a growing team of data platform engineering & analytics professionals.

They will have experience in migrating from on‑premises EDW appliances and platforms to cloud‑based lake‑house architectures & platforms. They will have a strategic mind and operate as a leader who influences IT and business strategy.

The resource will own all data & analytics platforms & tools, including Snowflake, Power BI, Micro Strategy, Alation, and other front‑end tools. They will be responsible for the entire data estate, including the data lake, data warehouse, and data platforms.

The right resource will lead the team in exploring new solutions, including data science & ML, solving complex technical issues, identifying efficiencies, and building proof of concepts as required.

The base salary range for this role is $152,200 - $286,450. The base salary range is dependent on factors including, but not limited to, experience, skills, qualifications, relevant education, certifications, seniority, and location. The range listed is just one component of the total compensation package for employees. Other rewards vary by position and location.

• Sets the mission and vision of the Data Technologies organization to foster a customer‑centric culture and mindset driven by a future state data vision for the company and adding business value.
• Be a trusted advisor, that builds and maintains relationships with other technical leaders and business executives to develop a keen understanding of business needs; ensures efficient delivery of IT services to meet those needs.
• Build & manage a multi‑year roadmap to modernize data & analytics platforms and enable new, strategic business capabilities.
• Help evolve the data technology organization to adopt Agile methods & Dev Ops.
• Determine the future skills needed in the data technologies space and build a team to realize that future. Resources will need to have the appropriate mix of strong technical knowledge, business knowledge and competencies that balance between growing agility and ensuring that core IT functions are reliable, stable and efficient.
• Foster a culture of trusted partnership, service, and continuous improvement.
• Build…