Principal, Data Strategy

VisionWorks

United States, Texas, San Antonio

175 East Houston Street (Show on map)

Apr 04, 2025

Summary:

The Principal, Data Strategy, will re-engineer data collection, management, and analysis, for use of data as a strategic asset for Visionworks in its' pursuit of business goals. He/she will build and execute a Data Strategy roadmap that enhances Visionworks' data governance, data architecture, data management, data analytics, and data culture. The role will promote a data driven mindset across the organization that establishes a competitive data strategy advantage in the optical industry.

Pay and Pay Class:

Pay Class: Full Time and Remote

Pay: $110,541.41 - $147,387.48

Essential Responsibilities:

Develop the data governance & data management strategy that includes oversight of strategic data initiatives that drive improvements in data quality & management, ensuring those improvements are sustained over time.
Collaborate with technical IT, BI, Analytics, and Data Science team members and leaders, and non-technical end user leaders as needed to align data initiatives with business objectives, ensuring that data supports and accelerates strategic goals.
Establish a single source of data truth for all internal and external team members' use of data.
Develop and manage data catalogs that provide clear and accessible views of data assets across Visionworks.
Communicate master data management architecture and data management practices to technical and non-technical stakeholders through meetings, presentations, training, and other appropriate means.
Define and enforce a data policy and best practice framework that enables timely access to permissible data for users.
Design a metadata management framework to ensure data tagging and classification across Visionworks' data management platform.
Develop master data management key performance indicators to measure data quality, timely accessibility, and data policy compliance.
Align Data Strategy best practices to support Data Science MLOps and MLDev quantitative modeling and partner with the Senior Principal, Data Science to develop, sustain, and support quantitative modeling redundancies.
Proactively monitor data strategy and data architecture advancements seeking opportunities to enhance Visionworks' master data management platform.

Education:

Bachelor's Degree in Data Management, Mathematics, Economics, or related field required.
Master's Degree preferred, not required.

Experience & Background:

6+ years relevant experience required
Advanced analytical skills managing data.
Proficiency in data management, cataloging and data lineage tracking.
Technical knowledge of statistical packages (Python, R), databases (SQL) financial modeling (Excel) preferred.

Language Skills:

Strong Communication Skills: ability to clearly convey very complex ideas in simple easy to understand ways - both in writing and verbally
Professional written and verbal communication and interpersonal skills
Ability to speak effectively before groups of customers or Associates of the organization

Mathematical Skills:

Advanced to expert level understanding in all of the following: Statistics, Machine Learning, Econometrics, and Deep Learning.

Reasoning Ability:

Best in class analytical and critical thinking skills

Ability to think logically
Exhibit sound and accurate judgment and demonstrate accuracy and thoroughness

Essential Responsibilities related to Physical Demands/Work Environment:

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an associate to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, the associate is required to sit, stand, use hands and fingers to handle, feel, pick or pinch, and talk or hear most of the time. The associate is occasionally required to stand, walk, and reach with hands and arms. The associate must frequently lift and/or move up to 20 pounds. The noise level in this location is moderate (use of computers, printers and machines)

Activity	Amount of Time
	None	Under 1/3	1/3 to 2/3	Over 2/3
Stand		X
Walk			X
Sit				X
Use hands and fingers to handle, feel, pick or pinch				X
Reach with Hands and Arms				X
Climb or balance			X
Stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl		X
Talk or hear				X
Close Vision (clear vision at 20" or less)			X

Essential Responsibilities related to Behavioral Characteristics:

Strong organizational skills
Ability to analyze and interpret data
Work under stress with interruptions and deadlines
Strong customer focus
Strong attention to detail
Ability to prioritize detailed tasks with minimal input to accomplish daily and long-term goals

HIPAA & Security Requirements

All Associates must comply with the Health Insurance Portability Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) as it pertains to disclosures of protected health information (PHI) as described in the Notice of Privacy Practices and HIPAA Privacy Policies and Procedures. As a component of job roles and responsibilities, Associates may have access to covered information, cardholder data or other confidential customer information which must be protected at all times. As a result, Associates must explicitly adhere to all data security guidelines established within the Company's Privacy & Security Training Program.

Visionworks is an equal opportunity employer, committed to the hiring, advancement and fair treatment of individuals without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, sexual orientation, gender, national origin, ethnicity, disability or veteran status, or any other protected status designated by federal, state or local law.

The specific statements shown in each section of this description are not intended to be all-inclusive. They represent typical elements and criteria considered necessary to perform the job successfully. As required by changing business needs, complete additional essential responsibilities as identified and assigned.