Senior Manager of Data & Analytics

Senior Manager of Data & Analytics

Corporate, IT

Garden Grove, CA

• ID: 5772
• Full-Time/Regular

Position Summary

At Southland, our team delivers trusted, secure, and scalable data platforms that empower the organization with reliable insights and self-service analytics. We focus on building high-quality data solutions that enable informed decision-making, business intelligence, and AI-driven innovation.

The Manager of Data & Analytics is responsible for leading the organization''s Data & Analytics team, delivering scalable, secure, and enterprise-grade data solutions that enable business decision-making and support the company''s digital and AI strategy. This role provides leadership across people management, delivery execution, stakeholder engagement, data engineering, business intelligence, and continuous innovation.

The Manager of Data & Analytics will lead a team of data engineers, analytics developers, BI developers, and contractors while partnering closely with business stakeholders, Enterprise Architecture, IT, and AI teams to ensure data platforms are modern, governed, scalable, and AI-ready.

This leader is expected to cultivate a culture of accountability, engineering excellence, continuous learning, and innovation while ensuring the team consistently delivers high-quality solutions that meet business needs and align with enterprise standards.

Position Details

Leadership & People Management

• Lead, mentor, coach, and develop a high-performing Data & Analytics team.
• Conduct regular one-on-one meetings, performance reviews, career development discussions, and coaching sessions.
• Establish clear goals, priorities, and performance expectations.
• Foster a culture of accountability, collaboration, ownership, innovation, and continuous improvement.
• Manage internal staff and contractors, including work assignments, performance, budgets, and vendor relationships.
• Recruit, hire, onboard, and retain top technical talent.
• Encourage knowledge sharing and cross-training to reduce single points of failure.

Delivery & Project Management

• Lead the successful delivery of enterprise data and analytics initiatives from defined business requirements through production.
• Prioritize Data & Analytics work based on established business priorities and strategic objectives.
• Facilitate Agile delivery practices.
• Remove roadblocks and proactively manage project risks.
• Hold the team accountable for quality, timelines, and delivery outcomes.
• Monitor progress and communicate status, risks, and dependencies to leadership and stakeholders.
• Ensure successful production deployments and ongoing operational support.

Data & Analytics Platform Leadership

• Oversee the development and delivery of enterprise Power BI dashboards and reports.
• Establish reporting standards and best practices.
• Oversee Microsoft Fabric, Power BI, SQL Server, Azure SQL, data warehouses, lakehouses, semantic models, and enterprise
• Prioritize work based on business value and strategic objectives.

Technical Leadership

• Leads with accountability and ownership
• Drive enterprise architecture and engineering best practices.
• Challenge the team to build scalable, reusable, maintainable, and automated solutions
• Promote data modeling, performance optimization, data governance, Git, code reviews, CI/CD, automation, and DevOps practices.

Innovation & AI Readiness

• Identify data, analytics, and AI opportunities that improve efficiency and business outcomes
• Lead data and analytics capabilities that enable enterprise AI initiatives.
• Evaluate emerging technologies and drive innovation across data and analytics.
• Develop team skills through training, certifications, proof-of-concepts, and continuous learning.

Vendor & Platform Management

• Manage relationships with technology vendors and implementation partners.
• Oversee platform licensing, support, upgrades, and roadmap planning.
• Collaborate with Enterprise Architecture, Infrastructure, Security, and Application teams to align integration strategy with business objectives.

Leadership Expectations

• The successful candidate:
• Leads with accountability and ownership.
• Develops people and builds high-performing teams.
• Partners effectively with business stakeholders.
• Promotes enterprise architecture, scalability, automation, and engineering excellence.
• Encourages innovation, continuous improvement, and AI adoption.
• Delivers measurable business value through modern data and analytics solutions.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, Information Systems, Data Analytics, Engineering, or a related discipline.
• 10+ years of experience in Data & Analytics, Data Engineering, Business Intelligence, or Database Development.
• 5+ years of leadership experience managing technical teams.
• Strong experience with Microsoft Fabric, Power BI, SQL Server, Azure SQL, data warehousing, Git, CI/CD, and Agile delivery.
• Experience delivering enterprise analytics solutions.
• Experience working directly with business stakeholders.
• Experience managing employees and contractors.

Benefits

As a 100% employee-owned company, we offer a comprehensive benefits package for you and your family:

• 401(k) plan with 50% company match (no cap) and immediate 100% vesting
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance (100% paid for employee)
• Annual bonus program based upon performance, achievement, and company profitability
• Term life, AD&D insurance, and voluntary life insurance
• Disability income protection insurance
• Pre-tax flexible spending plans (health and dependent care)
• Paid parental leave
• Paid holidays, vacation, and personal time
• Training/professional development opportunities and company-paid memberships for professional associations and licenses
• Wellness benefits

About Southland Industries

As one of the nation's largest MEP companies, Southland Industries is built on the foundation of great people. Since 1949, we have put our people first, enabling growth, professional achievement, and innovation. If you want to join a fast-paced environment where you're engaged, challenged, and valued, apply now to join our dynamic team.

To learn more about careers at Southland, explore our career opportunities, follow us on social media, and check out our website.

Southland Industries and all its subsidiaries are an Equal Opportunity Employer and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any kind. We are committed to the principle of equal employment opportunity for all employees and to providing our employees with a safe work environment free of discrimination and harassment. All employment decisions at Southland Industries are based on business needs, job requirements and individual qualifications, without regard to race, color, religion or belief, gender, national origin, ancestry, age, disability, medical condition, marital status, family care or medical leave status, veteran status, or any other status protected by the laws or regulations in the locations where we operate. Southland Industries will not tolerate discrimination or harassment based on any of these characteristics.

Pay: Final pay is determined by the education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities of the applicant, internal equity, and alignment with market data. For California this ranges from $150,000.00 - $177,500.00 plus annual incentive, benefits, and retirement program as outlined above.

Contingent Employment: All employment offers are contingent upon successful drug tests, background checks, and professional reference checks. Roles that include driving as an essential job duty will be required to have a successful Motor Vehicle Record check (MVR). We are not able to offer sponsorship of employment at this time.

External Agency Announcement: Its Southland Industries'' policy not to accept candidate submissions from recruiting agencies without an active and authorized work order. Candidate ownership can only be established after a bona fide work order is issued by a member of the Southland Industries Talent Acquisition team and the candidate is appropriately submitted through our Applicant Tracking System (ATS).