Job Summary:
The Vice President, Data Solutions provides executive leadership for Langley's enterprise data function, including business analytics, reporting, data engineering, and ETL operations. This role is accountable for making accurate data accessible across the organization, reducing the friction between business questions and trusted answers, and advancing the data, analytics, and AI-readiness capabilities Langley requires. The VP owns enterprise data strategy, data governance, the enterprise data warehouse and AI data warehouse architecture, and the analytics delivery model; leads a team of business analytics consultants, report developers, data engineering, and ETL staff; and partners with executive and business unit leaders to embed data-driven decision-making into strategic and operational processes.
This is a on site position, working in Newport News, VA
Essential Functions, Duties, and Responsibilities:
Enterprise Data Strategy and Accessibility
- Owns Langley's enterprise data strategy, ensuring alignment with the growth strategy.
- Serves as the accountable executive owner for enterprise data accessibility: streamlining the path from business question to trusted answer for business users and delivery teams, and advancing self-service analytics adoption across the organization.
- Owns the architecture and roadmap of the enterprise data warehouse and AI data warehouse, including data models, curation standards, and the semantic and metadata layers that make data findable and trustworthy.
- Champions a data-driven culture, partnering with executive and business unit leaders to integrate analytics and KPIs into strategic planning, initiative measurement, and operational decision-making.
- Recommends enterprise data platform investments to the CIO; informs enterprise technology strategy and executive-level decisions that depend on data capability.
Data Governance and AI Readiness
- Owns the development, execution, and enforcement of enterprise data governance policies, ensuring data is accurate, reliable, timely, and secure, with defined data ownership and stewardship across business units.
- Owns enterprise AI data readiness, including data quality, lineage, and metadata standards that enable responsible and effective AI use across the organization.
- Owns AI governance for data and analytical models, including model documentation, inventory, risk assessment, and compliance with internal policies and regulatory standards; serves as the named first-line owner of model risk within IT, accountable to enterprise risk management oversight.
- Ensures data governance and model risk practices are examination-ready and scale with the heightened regulatory expectations of a $10B+ institution.
Analytics and Delivery Leadership
- Leads and develops the Data Solutions team which includes business analytics consultants, report developers, data engineering, and ETL staff. This includes workforce planning, skill development, team structure and assignments, and performance management.
- Aligns analytics staff to business portfolios to build financial services domain fluency and deliver measurable business outcomes.
- Directs the design, delivery, and reliability of scalable, secure data pipelines and ETL processes across cloud and on-premises environments, using vendor platforms and tools consistent with Langley's operating model.
- Partners with the leader of Salesforce CRM Platform to define the boundary between platform-resident member data and the enterprise data warehouse. Includes ownership of data feeds into and out of Salesforce, shared data-quality standards, and defined measures of member-context completeness and accuracy across channels.
- Establishes, monitors, and reports data function SLAs and KPIs, including data accessibility and self-service adoption measures, pipeline reliability, data quality, and report accuracy with pre-distribution validation gates for board- and executive-facing reporting, and uses them to drive continuous improvement and inform investment decisions.
- Ensures the data integration, migration and reporting capabilities enterprise initiatives depend on are planned, resourced, and delivered.
Cross-Functional Interfaces
- Owns data architecture, warehouse design, and data pipeline standards, and defines the requirements the database environment administered by IT Infrastructure must meet.
- Collaborates with IT Infrastructure and Information Security to ensure data protection, access controls, and regulatory alignment across all data platforms.
- Manages data platform, analytics tooling, and ETL vendor relationships, including evaluation, licensing, due diligence, and performance monitoring consistent with Langley's third-party risk management expectations.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in data science, data analytics, computer science, information systems, or a related field, or an equivalent combination of education and experience, required; master's degree preferred.
- Ten or more years of experience in business analytics, data engineering, and data warehousing within a complex corporate environment required.
- Five or more years leading and managing data or analytics teams required; experience leading through a delivery-model transformation preferred.
- Experience presenting data strategy and analysis results to executive leadership and boards required.
- Expertise in data governance, analytics strategy, cloud data architecture, and business intelligence required.
- Experience with enterprise data warehouse architecture, ETL platforms, and business intelligence tools required; advanced proficiency in SQL Server Integration Services, Azure Data Factory, Tableau, or Power BI preferred.
- Experience establishing AI governance frameworks, including data quality standards, model risk management, and responsible AI practices, is preferred.
- Experience in financial services, banking, or credit union environments is preferred.
- Experience supporting data capabilities through a core system conversion or comparable enterprise platform migration preferred.
Targeted Salary Range: $160,000 - $220,000
Our Keys to Success:
All Langley employees are expected to demonstrate the following Keys to Success, which reflect our shared cultural and behavioral expectations.
- Service Champion – Adopts a service orientation, building trusting relationships and delivering value for associates, members, and communities.
- Langley Ambassadors – Demonstrates a passion for Langley’s vision, encouraging diversity, equity, and inclusion while considering Langley’s values when making decisions and taking accountability for delivering results.
- Agile in Action – Adapts to changes in the business, demonstrating innovation to improve Langley and advance the business into the future.
- Team Driven – Collaborates across Langley, communicating with transparency and prioritizing a team-based approach that delivers optimal outcomes for associates, members, and communities.
- Continuous Learners – Maintains an understanding of Langley’s business and how value is delivered to members and actively pursues opportunities to grow oneself and strengthen the organization.