Senior Vice President of Enterprise Data - AZ - On site

Vensure Employer Solutions • Chandler, AZ

9d • Onsite

About The Position

We are a proud work-from-office company. If you're ready to work on-site in a dynamic, global company, we'd love to hear from you. About Us Vensure Employer Solutions is the largest privately held organization in the HR technology and service sector, providing a comprehensive portfolio of solutions, including HR/HCM technology, managed services, and global business process outsourcing (BPO). The company and its service providers collectively serve over 95,000 businesses and process over $135B in annual payroll. As a "One Employer Solution” headquartered in Chandler, Arizona, Vensure helps thousands of businesses streamline and grow their operations with custom strategies that benefit both employers and employees. Find out more by visiting www.vensure.com . Position Summary The Senior Vice President of Enterprise Data is an executive leader and main data architect responsible for operationalizing a unified, enterprise-grade data foundation that powers daily reporting, advanced analytics, and AI across our HR, payroll, and insurance businesses. The SVP will own the end-to-end data strategy—spanning architecture, engineering, and governance helping to drive a cultural shift toward data reliability, speed, and reuse at scale.

Requirements

• Proven track record building enterprise data lakes/lakehouses and migrating disparate source systems to standardized models.
• Deep expertise in data modeling (3NF, star, data vault), MDM/reference data, metadata/lineage, and data quality frameworks.
• Hands-on leadership with modern stacks: cloud data platforms (Azure preferred), Spark/Databricks or Snowflake, Python/SQL, orchestration (Airflow/dbt), streaming (Kafka/Event Hubs), CI/CD and IaC (Terraform), BI (Power BI/Tableau/Looker).
• Demonstrated success enabling daily operational reporting at scale and producing AI/ML-ready datasets (feature stores, governance for model risk).
• Executive communication skills: able to set vision, influence senior stakeholders, and translate technical roadmaps into business outcomes.
• BS/MS in Computer Science, Data/Software Engineering, Information Systems, or related; MBA or equivalent executive experience preferred.
• 15+ years progressive experience across data architecture, data engineering, and analytics; 7+ years leading large, multi-disciplinary data organizations in complex, multi-brand environments.

Nice To Haves

• Industry plus: experience with PEO/HR Tech, payroll, benefits, workers' comp, or insurance data domains (HRIS, time & attendance, claims, underwriting, policy/billing).

Responsibilities

• Define and execute the enterprise data architecture (data lake/lakehouse, streaming, MDM, metadata, lineage, quality) aligned to business OKRs.
• Select and govern platform standards (e.g., Azure/AWS; Databricks/Snowflake/Synapse; ClientSpace; dbt/Airflow; Power BI/Tableau).
• Build high-throughput, cost-efficient pipelines (batch/streaming) with automated testing, observability, and data SLAs.
• Implement gold/semantic layers for trusted daily and intraday reporting.
• Establish data product ownership, versioning, and change-management for stable AI/ML training sets.
• Implement data governance (catalog, lineage, access controls), privacy-by-design, and retention standards; ensure compliance with SOC 2, HIPAA where applicable, and state/federal employment data regulations.
• Create incident response and data quality playbooks with measurable remediation timelines.
• Mentor teams across data engineering, architecture, governance, and analytics; recruit and develop top talent.
• Establish a federated-to-centralized model: central standards and platforms with domain-aligned data product teams.
• Drive a culture of accountability with outcome-based metrics, transparent roadmaps, and executive dashboards.

Benefits

• Health Insurance : Medical, dental, and vision coverage
• Retirement Plan : 401(k) with company match
• Paid Time Off : PTO, Holidays, Parental leave and Sick Leave provided as required by applicable state law
• Other Benefits : Life insurance, short term disability, long term disability, employee assistance program (EAP), flexible spending account (FSA), health savings account (HSA), Identity theft protection, critical illness, accident, cancer, hospital protection, legal and pet insurance.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Executive