Associate Director, Enterprise Data Platforms

Associate Director, Enterprise Data Platforms

Location:

Kennesaw, Georgia

Regular/Temporary:
Regular

Full/Part Time:
Full-Time

Job

Kennesaw State University, one of the 50 largest public institutions in the country, offers more than 190 undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral degrees to 47,000 students. Our entrepreneurial spirit, high‑impact research, and Division I athletics attract students from throughout the region and over 100 countries. We provide an inclusive, respectful, and collaborative environment that values integrity, excellence, accountability, and respect.

Provides leadership for the university’s enterprise data infrastructure and integration services while maintaining active technical involvement. Responsibilities include cloud-based unified data platforms, legacy data warehousing systems, and enterprise data ingestion operations. The role ensures reliable, secure, and high‑performance platforms that enable institutional reporting, analytics, and compliance.

• Provide strategic and operational leadership for enterprise data infrastructure services, balancing technical execution with managerial responsibility for staff and service delivery.
• Administer and optimize unified data platforms such as Microsoft Fabric, including capacity management, performance monitoring, technical governance, and access management.
• Build and operate standardized data ingestion pipelines with metadata capture, schema enforcement, error handling, and secure storage.
• Design and maintain reusable data preparation processes (e.g., standardization, deduplication, schema checks, optimization) that are performed centrally.
• Manage legacy data platforms such as SAS (SAS 9, SAS Grid, Viya) and/or Tableau, ensuring reliability, security, and performance.
• Provide infrastructure and operational support for legacy ETL processes and system-wide data processes such as the ADC (USG Academic Data Collection).
• Ensure data infrastructure services comply with institutional governance, privacy, and security policies and applicable regulations such as FERPA, HIPAA, and PCI.
• Monitor performance and implement proactive measures for scalability, efficiency, and reliability.
• Collaborate with university stakeholders to align data infrastructure strategy with reporting, analytics, and compliance needs.
• Develop and supervise staff through mentoring, professional growth opportunities, training, performance management, and knowledge sharing.
• Evaluate emerging technologies and recommend adoption of tools that advance data, analytics, and integration capabilities.
• Foster a culture of curiosity, continuous improvement, ownership, and accountability, building repeatable solutions and data‑informed decision making.

• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited institution of higher education.
• Seven (7) years of related IT experience.

• Advanced degree from an accredited institution of higher education in a related field.
• Previous experience with Microsoft Fabric or Microsoft Synapse Analytics, including platform administration and data pipeline development.
• Experience working in higher education IT environments.
• Hands‑on experience building automation solutions with Power Automate, Power Apps, and BPA tools.
• Hands‑on experience designing and building system integration.
• Experience building integration services using iPaaS platforms such as Boomi or Mule Soft.

• Function with autonomy, making sound and timely decisions, anticipating problems, and appropriately assessing and communicating risks, benefits, and alternatives.
• Lead large, complex projects requiring tight coordination across IT and business units.
• Analyze, design, implement, and troubleshoot complex software systems, services, and solutions.
• Handle multiple tasks or projects simultaneously, meeting assigned deadlines.

• Expertise in enterprise data infrastructure and architecture, including cloud‑based data platforms and data warehousing.
• Hands‑on experience with enterprise data integration and transformation tools.
• Knowledge of regulatory and compliance standards related to data privacy and security…