Data Analytics Manager

Description

Power Delivery Data Analytics Manager

The Manager for the Power Delivery Data Analytics Team has responsibility for a team of engineers and analysts with expertise in Power Delivery (P.D.) business intelligence and analytics space. The successful candidate will work closely with the Power Delivery Connectivity & Innovation Manager, Central Engineering Manager, and the GridInform & Connectivity General manager to leverage data analytics solutions throughout Alabama Power Company Power Delivery, focusing on O&M elimination, reliability improvement, customer satisfaction, and resource allocation.

Specifically, this position will be responsible for providing leadership, development and mentoring for a diverse team of professionals, who use the Grid Inform data analytics platform, among other tools, to identify opportunities to proactively manage enterprise data and leverage data to make better, more informed business decisions. It is vital to engage and partner closely with PD and TO portfolio teams to generate insightful, relevant, actionable insights and visualizations supported by business data. Additionally, this position is responsible for effectively managing the budget and forecasting potential budget impacts to ensure that financial targets are met for the PD organization.

The Manager for Data Analytics Team also owns and grows relationships with strategic vendor partners to ensure that the organization continues to deliver on project commitments in addition to leveraging industry-leading expertise for solution delivery, consulting, and overall guidance for enterprise data initiatives at APC/PD. The Manager will also own the relationship with the SCS TO team to effectively relay top priorities from the PD team to ensure that TO resources and budgets are effectively managed in order to ensure that projects are delivered on time and on budget. Lastly, the Manager will be responsible for understanding and relaying PD’s data needs and priorities to our SCS TO team and strategic contractor partners to ensure that the PD data is properly categorized and prioritized for movement into Azure Cloud Database, accessible and available for use.

Job Experience & Education

• Experience with leading, motivating, and coaching cross-functional teams
• Experience working across functional areas in PD or in business functions
• Experience working in a fast-paced, competitive organization, spanning various disciplines including applications, infrastructure, and business support roles
• Experience with managing technology, product lifecycles and technology roadmaps
• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or quantitative field such as applied mathematics, statistics, finance, economics, data science, or data analytics degree preferred
• MBA or Masters in Data preferred
• Power Delivery experience preferred
• Comprehensive experience with implementing analytics solutions using one or more toolsets including (but not limited to) Microsoft and/or Oracle analytics solutions

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Demonstration of mature core leadership competencies including:
• Adapting to and responding to change
• Critical thinking
• Decision-making and action initiation
• Entrepreneurial and commercial thinking
• Formulating strategies and concepts
• Leading and supervising
• Persuading and influencing
• Planning and organizing
• Relating and networking
• Strong project management skills with demonstrated ability to oversee major projects
• Demonstrated skills in verbal and written communication; ability to make presentations to varying levels of employees and audiences
• Proven ability to manage initiatives and deliver results on time and within budgets
• Proven ability to develop and maintain effective working relationships with employees, peers, and management
• Mature problem-solving skills: ability to understand technology issues and translate to business context
• Strong customer service focus; knowledge of electric industry
• Strong project/initiative organization, delivery and management skills.
• Knowledge of data migration and integration
• Excellent customer service skills
• Continuous self-learner
• Ability to handle multiple assignments and conflicting priorities
• Ability to build productive relationships with a focus on cooperation and teamwork

Job Responsibilities

The outputs of data analytics efforts are key in guiding decisions which impact APC Power Delivery and Alabama Power Company as a whole. The demands for analytics are many; the manager will need to effectively balance demand with team capabilities. The required response time for some requests may be short. Some key activities include:

• Measuring, reporting, and interpreting power reliability indexes
• Supplying APC PD Central Engineering with projects which meet PD Strategic goals of reducing O&M, improving reliability, and implementing data-guided decision making
• Providing ad-hoc reports and analyses to upper-level leadership in PD and APC
• Providing budgeting and accounting with analyses for informed decision making and forecasting
• Measuring, reporting, and interpreting workforce resource allocations and analyses
• Assist the Connectivity & Innovation Manager in building and maintaining an organization that provides strategic technical leadership and subject matter expertise on data analytics best practices and standards
• Establish, manage, and enhance the operational processes that enable quality and efficient BI/Analytic solution delivery including:
• Maintaining a pipeline of work for the group with request tracking, prioritization, and assignment to team members
• Process development between functions both internal to the group and partnering with other organizations
• Continuous process improvement for data management initiatives and BI/analytics solution delivery
• Attract, develop, and manage a highly effective, diverse workforce of technical employees highly skilled in multiple disciplines whose purpose is to design, develop, and successfully implement, on time and within budget, solutions that deliver business value and satisfy customers
• Provide solutions that exceed business partner expectations for functionality, quality, cost, and timely delivery
• Establish and maintain excellent working relationships/partnerships with IT and business organizations, as well as external strategic vendor partners
• Seek opportunities to market the capabilities of the Data Analytics & Reporting group through informational sessions, planned meetings, technology demonstrations and formal presentations as needed
• Stay abreast of industry trends and emerging technologies; seek connections with other leaders within the electric utility industry responsible for data analytics in their organizations
• Scope, develop, package and deliver new business intelligence and analytics solutions for multiple stakeholder organizations
• Serve as a BI subject matter expert to properly assess BI needs for business unit users and map those needs to appropriate back-end solution architectures (i.e. OLTP/transactional databases, data marts, data warehouses, cubes, Hadoop, local data sources, dashboards, etc.)

Core Behavioral Attributes

The successful candidate will demonstrate understanding and application of the “Southern Style” behaviors: Unquestionable Trust, Superior Performance, and Total Commitment.

Additional required behavioral attributes

• Results-oriented / self-starter
• Innovative
• Strategic thinker with an enterprise view for sustainable solutions
• Committed to continuous learning and improvement
• Committed to the development of others
• Committed to building and maintaining constructive partnerships with business partners
• Works well both independently and with others
• Acts with speed and decisiveness
• Committed to ethical conduct
• Lives and works safely

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Job Field: Information Technology

Job Type: Standard

Primary Location: Alabama-Metro Birmingham/Eastern AL-Birmingham

Operating Company: The Southern Company

Job Type: Standard

Travel (Up to...): Yes, 25 % of the Time

Work Location(s):

APC Corporate Headquarters - 600 North 18th Street (600BIRMINGHAM)

600 North 18th Street

Birmingham, 35203

Req ID: APC2007864