Manager, Data & AI Platforms

Location: Atlanta, Georgia, USA

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Mental health support

Career advancement opportunities

Student loan repayment options

Tuition reimbursement

Flexible work environments

*All the benefits listed above are subject to the terms of their individual Plans.

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General Summary

Manager, Data & AI Platforms | Cloud Data, Analytics, AI Governance, Platform Operations & Business Transformation

We’re seeking a strategic and technically savvy Manager, Data & AI Platforms to lead the governance, adoption, optimization, and operational stewardship of our enterprise Data & AI ecosystem.

In this role, you'll drive the strategy and oversight of modern data, analytics, and AI platforms, ensuring they are secure, scalable, cost-effective, and positioned to deliver measurable business value. You'll partner across Data Engineering, Analytics, AI, Architecture, Security, and Governance teams to establish platform standards, improve adoption, optimize investments, and enable innovation across the organization.

The ideal candidate brings a blend of platform expertise, stakeholder leadership, governance experience, and business acumen. You thrive in complex environments, enjoy influencing across teams, and have a passion for turning platform capabilities into business outcomes.

What You'll Drive

• Enterprise governance and operational oversight of Data & AI platforms
• Platform adoption, utilization, and value realization
• Vendor and stakeholder relationship management
• Platform cost optimization and financial accountability
• Access management, governance, and compliance
• Cross-functional collaboration to support analytics and AI innovation
• Scalable processes, standards, and guardrails that enable responsible platform usage
• This is a campus-based role requiring 4 days per week onsite.

Job Specifications

• Bachelor’s degree in information technology, mathematics, or statistics preferred.
• 5+ years hands-on experience acting as a Data Engineer, BI Analyst or Data Scientist. Based on specific team composition and goals one discipline may carry more weight than the others.
• Prior leadership and/or management experience preferred.

Experience with analytics programming languages (SQL/R/Python)

• Experience with modern BI toolsets (Snowflake, Databricks, Tableau, Alteryx, PowerBI, or equivalent)
• In-depth understanding of data profiling, statistical analysis and data modeling concepts
• Adept in extracting, loading and leveraging data in data warehouse, transactional databases, object stores & API based environments
• Data Architecture and Infrastructure: Good understanding of data architecture principles and related infrastructure requirements, covering on-prem and Cloud platforms.
• Strong problem solving, programming and project management skills.
• Excellent ability to interpret or correlate an extensive variety of information and decompose complex analytical and technical problems and translate them into simple business solutions to be presented to key stakeholders.
• Ability to think conceptually, handle ambiguity, solve complex problems and make thoughtful recommendations.
• Excellent communications skills and abilities working with all corporate levels and external contacts.
• Demonstrated mentoring/coaching skills developing technical implementation employees
• Additional Locations: Chattanooga, Tennessee, USA, Portland, Maine, USA