Data & Analytics Director

* Lead PHINIA’s enterprise data and analytics strategy, including data platform evolution, analytics roadmap, and adoption of AI‐assisted analytics capabilities.* Establish and enforce data governance, including data quality standards, security controls, metadata management, lineage, and compliance with PHINIA’s privacy and regulatory requirements.* Architect, modernize, and oversee data platforms (Azure Data Lake, Delta Lake, Databricks, Synapse), data pipelines, integration layers, and self‐service analytics tools.* Create and maintain data architecture documentation, data models, data flow diagrams, integration specifications, and governance playbooks.* Identify, prioritize, and deliver analytics use cases across manufacturing, supply chain, quality, finance, aftermarket, engineering, and customer domains.* Enable AI‐driven insights through advanced analytics, machine learning–ready datasets, feature pipelines, and enriched semantic models, in partnership with data scientists.* Collaborate with application, cloud, integration, and business teams to operationalize enterprise data products and high‐quality analytics solutions.* Establish dashboards, KPIs, data scorecards, and measurement frameworks to track adoption, data quality, analytics performance, and business impact.* Manage budgets related to data platforms, BI tools, AI‐assisted analytics tooling, licensing, cloud consumption, and external services.* Oversee vendor and partner relationships for data platforms, BI ecosystems, cloud services, and analytics engineering partners; ensure service value and platform performance.* Communicate effectively with senior leadership by presenting analytics roadmaps, platform performance, adoption trends, insights summaries, and financial impact assessments.* Lead, mentor, and grow a global team of data engineers, BI developers, analytics product owners, and data governance contributors.* Establish best practices, engineering standards, reusable frameworks, and knowledge‐sharing processes for analytics delivery and data engineering.* Foster a culture of data literacy, analytical excellence, and continuous improvement across business and IT teams.* Bachelor’s or master's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or equivalent work experience.* 10+ years of experience in data analytics, BI, data engineering, or digital innovation roles.* Strong expertise in data platforms (Azure Data Services, Databricks, Snowflake, Power BI, or equivalent).* Experience designing data architectures, ETL/ELT pipelines, dashboards, predictive models, and AI/ML solutions.* Understanding manufacturing or automotive data domains such as production, quality, traceability, supply chain, and customer lifecycle.* Familiarity with innovation frameworks: design thinking, rapid prototyping, PoCs, experimentation.* Ability to work closely with cross‐functional business stakeholders to identify problems and translate them into analytical solutions.* Experience leading analytics teams, partners, and large-scale data initiatives.* Strong communication, storytelling, and change‐management skills.* Certifications in data engineering, analytics, cloud data platforms (Azure/AWS/GCP).* Data governance or analytics certifications (e.g., DAMA, Power BI, Databricks).* Design thinking or innovation certifications (nice to have).**CAREER OPPORTUNITIES**We manage talent as seriously as we manage our businesses and encourage you to learn about our proud history, strong culture, technologies and future vision. We offer a strong local presence and interesting global opportunities. Start your future with PHINIA now!Join the PHINIA team and be a part of an industry-leading company in fuel systems, aftermarket distribution, and combustion technologies. As we drive the transition to alternative fuels and hydrogen combustion, we're seeking talents who want to have a positive impact on the future of transportation. Established relationships with global OEMs and a focus on balanced and synergistic exposure among multiple markets, PHINIA is the place to be.”
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