Sr Mgr, Data Services (US-REMOTE)

Position Overview

• Location Type: Hybrid
• Job Type: Management
• Salary: Not specified

CDK Global is a leading provider of cloud-based software to dealerships and Original Equipment Manufacturers (“OEMs”) across automotive and related industries. The Company’s cloud-based, software as a service (“SaaS”) platform enables dealerships to manage their end-to-end business operations including the acquisition, sale, financing, insuring, repair, and maintenance of vehicles. By automating and streamlining critical workflows, the integrated platform of modern solutions enables dealers to sell and service more vehicles by creating simple and convenient experiences for customers and improves their financial and operational performance.

This role seeks a strategic and experienced leader to define and drive the overall strategy, delivery, and operation of enterprise data services, ensuring the organization can effectively leverage its data assets for actionable insights and data-driven decision-making. The Senior Manager of Data Services will be responsible for the full lifecycle of data enablement, including data management, integration, warehousing/lakehouse strategy, and the delivery of reporting and analytics solutions through platforms like Power BI, Tableau, and Cognos.

As the Sr Mgr, Data Services, you will lead and mentor a multi-disciplinary team potentially comprising data engineers, analysts, and platform administrators. Your team will be responsible for managing the enterprise data platform, ensuring data quality and governance adherence, transforming data, and delivering compelling visualizations, dashboards, and reports. You will champion best practices across the data lifecycle, from ingestion and modeling to visualization and self-service enablement, fostering a robust data culture within CDK Global. You will collaborate closely with executive leadership, business stakeholders, IT infrastructure, application teams, and data governance bodies to ensure alignment and maximize the value derived from our data assets. This role demands strong leadership across the data domain, exceptional stakeholder management skills, and deep expertise in data architecture, data management principles, and major BI platforms. The ideal candidate will have a proven ability to build, scale, and mentor high-performing data teams and implement effective data service frameworks in a complex, large-scale organization. The Sr Mgr, Data Services, will report to the Sr Dir, Enterprise Data & Analytics and play a critical role in advancing CDK Global’s overall data maturity and capabilities.

Requirements

• Strong leadership skills
• Visionary thinking
• Experience in data architecture, data management principles, and major BI platforms (Power BI, Tableau, Cognos)
• Proven ability to build, scale, and mentor high-performing data teams
• Exceptional stakeholder management skills
• Deep expertise in data enablement and data governance

Responsibilities

• Develop and execute a comprehensive enterprise Data Services strategy.
• Define the roadmap for data acquisition, management, storage, integration, analytics, and governance enablement.
• Lead and mentor a multi-disciplinary data team.
• Manage the enterprise data platform, ensuring data quality and governance adherence.
• Transform data for analytics and reporting.
• Deliver compelling visualizations, dashboards, and reports.
• Champion best practices across the data lifecycle.
• Collaborate with executive leadership, business stakeholders, IT infrastructure, application teams, and data governance bodies.
• Ensure alignment and maximize the value derived from data assets.
• Advance CDK Global’s overall data maturity and capabilities.

Application Instructions

• Not specified.