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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Manager, Data & AI Platforms - **Company:** UNUM Group - **Location:** Portland, ME, United States - **Experience:** Expert - **Salary:** $98,340.0 - $201,900.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Artificial Intelligence, Data Analysis, Computing Platforms, Cloud Computing, Cloud Database, Computer Programming, Databases, Data Architecture, Information Engineering, Data Transformation, Data Profiling, Data Warehousing, Digital Assets, Identity and Access Management, Python (Programming Language), Power BI, SQL Databases, Tableau (Software), Snowflake, AI Platforms, Information Technology, Data Analytics, Data Pipelines, Alteryx, Databricks - **Published:** October 22, 2026 - **Apply:** https://dejobs.org/x/x/59F722F7C28A422A896206B203B7E648/job/ ## About the Role * 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 ## Description 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, * Own day-to-day management of enterprise Data & AI platforms. * Establish and enforce platform governance standards, policies, and operating procedures. * Measure platform utilization, adoption, and value realization across business and technology teams. * Will oversee the execution of a team's analytics strategy. Guiding their team on the usage of tools, methodologies and ensuring their team is tracking towards goals and project deadlines. * Oversee the implementation of best practices in support of data & analytics projects to drive consistency and standardization of Data and AI platforms usage. * Responsible for recruiting, training, performance management, coaching, development and retention of staff within their team. * Oversees the construction of predictive models, data pipelines and analytics workflows in the support of operational and analytics objectives. Will also meaningfully contribute to the development of these assets as necessary. * Work with partners to translate business needs into a technical plan, identify available data, communicate findings and results, and develop implementation tactics. Provides consulting support to business areas around conformance to corporate policies/procedures and controls, compliance as needed. * Understand theory and application of current and emerging analysis methods and data tooling to drive and recommend continuous improvement opportunities. * Identify internal and external data sources, construct analytical databases and develop data pipelines that enhance business performance. * Discuss data transformation, integration, and reporting requirements with both technical and non-technical audiences. * Will oversee the mentoring and training of team members on the usage of statistical methods, tools and development of data assets. * Perform other related duties as assigned.