Operations Leader - Data & Analytics

Posted 17 Days Ago
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3 Locations
In-Office or Remote
Senior level
Energy • Manufacturing • Solar • Renewable Energy
GE Vernova is accelerating the path to more reliable, affordable, and sustainable energy.
The Role
Lead the operating rhythm and transformation of a global Data & Analytics organization, driving platform rationalization, portfolio governance, financial management, vendor oversight, M&A support, executive reporting, and change leadership to simplify the data ecosystem and realize cost, reliability, and adoption benefits.
Summary Generated by Built In
Job Description SummaryThe D&A Operations Leader will orchestrate the daily operating rhythm of a global, approximately 1,000-member Data & Analytics organization while leading its most critical priority: transforming and simplifying the data and analytics technology landscape. This role will convert strategy into disciplined execution across portfolio governance, operating reviews, financial management, mergers and acquisitions, vendor management, project delivery, and communications. Success requires enterprise perspective, strong judgment, and the ability to influence senior leaders, technical teams, business partners, and suppliers.
PRIMARY MISSION
Drive measurable simplification of the data and analytics ecosystem by establishing a fact-based transformation roadmap, reducing platform and tool duplication, rationalizing legacy assets, standardizing operating practices, and accelerating adoption of strategic enterprise capabilities. The leader will balance transformation velocity with operational continuity, security, compliance, and business value.

Job DescriptionKey ResponsibilitiesD&A Transformation and Simplification
  • Advise senior leadership on and help shape the multi-year transformation and simplification roadmap for the Data & Analytics landscape, aligned with enterprise architecture, cybersecurity, data governance, cloud, and business priorities.
  • Create a transparent baseline of platforms, applications, data products, integrations, infrastructure, costs, ownership, usage, technical debt, and lifecycle status.
  • Lead portfolio rationalization to eliminate redundancy, retire legacy technologies, consolidate vendors and platforms, simplify interfaces, and standardize repeatable capabilities.
  • Establish decision criteria, governance, sequencing, dependencies, investment cases, and measurable benefits for simplification initiatives.
  • Coordinate execution across architecture, engineering, product, operations, security, finance, procurement, legal, and business teams. Identify cross-functional barriers and escalate with recommended resolutions..
  • Track adoption, decommissioning, cost reduction, productivity, reliability, and value realization; intervene when outcomes are off plan.
  • Embed continuous improvement, automation, lean operating practices, and reusable standards into the organization’s ways of working.
Operating Rhythm and Governance
  • Facilitate and support monthly operating reviews and other leadership cadences, including agenda development, performance narratives, decision logs, action tracking, and executive follow-up.
  • Develop integrated dashboards and concise executive reporting across strategy, delivery, operations, service performance, financials, risks, talent, and transformation benefits.
  • Maintain clear governance, ownership, escalation paths, and accountability across the portfolio.
  • Translate complex operational and technical information into actionable insights, decisions, and communications for varied audiences.
Financial, Portfolio, and Project Management
  • Support annual planning, forecasting, budgeting, accruals, investment prioritization, and variance management for the organization.
  • Improve cost transparency by linking spend, capacity, service consumption, and investments to business outcomes and transformation priorities.
  • Establish portfolio and project-management disciplines covering scope, schedule, budget, dependencies, risks, issues, resources, outcomes, and benefits.
  • Provide provide evaluative analysis and recommendations for high-priority or at-risk initiatives to accountable leaders.
  • Partner with finance and functional leaders to identify productivity opportunities and ensure savings are validated and sustained.
Mergers and Acquisitions
  • Coordinate Data & Analytics support for acquisitions, divestitures, and integrations, including discovery, due diligence, separation or integration planning, Day 1 readiness, transition services, and post-close execution.
  • Assess target-state implications across data, analytics, applications, infrastructure, security, privacy, governance, licensing, vendors, and operating models.
  • Build integrated plans, cost estimates, risks, decision points, and executive updates in partnership with corporate development, legal, finance, cybersecurity, architecture, and business teams.
  • Use transaction events to accelerate landscape simplification and avoid introducing new duplication or technical debt.
Vendor and Commercial Management
  • Monitor and advise on strategic suppliers performance, statements of work, contract obligations, service levels, performance, capacity, risks, renewals, and commercial outcomes.
  • Partner with sourcing, procurement, legal, finance, security, and technical owners on negotiations, demand consolidation, license optimization, and supplier rationalization.
  • Establish scorecards and regular business reviews that connect supplier performance to reliability, delivery, innovation, simplification, and cost objectives.
  • Identify and mitigate concentration, continuity, compliance, and third-party risks.
Communications and Change Leadership
  • Develop a clear transformation narrative and integrated communication plan for leaders, employees, business partners, and suppliers.
  • Prepare executive presentations, organizational updates, decision papers, talking points, FAQs, and recognition communications.
  • Build stakeholder alignment through structured engagement, active listening, transparent trade-offs, and timely escalation.
  • Promote adoption of simplified platforms and processes through change-impact assessment, readiness planning, training coordination, and feedback loops.
Measures of Success
  • Reduction in applications, platforms, tools, integrations, vendors, legacy assets, and technical debt.
  • Validated run-cost and license savings, avoided costs, productivity gains, and improved investment mix.
  • Percentage of targeted assets retired and workloads migrated to strategic platforms on schedule.
  • Improved reliability, security posture, data quality, compliance, cycle time, and user adoption.
  • Accurate forecasts, disciplined portfolio execution, timely decisions, and closure of operating-review actions.
  • M&A milestones achieved with controlled risk, minimal business disruption, and target-state alignment.
  • Improved supplier performance, contractual value, and stakeholder confidence.
Required Qualifications
  • Bachelor’s degree in information technology, computer science, engineering, business, finance, or a related discipline, or equivalent professional experience.
  • Significant experience in digital technology, data and analytics, technology operations, transformation, portfolio management, or a related field within a large, complex organization.
  • Demonstrated success leading technology simplification, application or platform rationalization, modernization, cloud migration, cost optimization, or operating-model transformation.
  • Strong command of financial planning, business cases, forecasting, portfolio governance, project and program management, and benefit realization.
  • Experience managing strategic vendors, contracts, statements of work, service levels, and commercial performance.
  • Working knowledge of modern data and analytics ecosystems, including cloud platforms, data engineering, business intelligence, AI/ML, governance, cybersecurity, privacy, and enterprise architecture.
  • Excellent written, verbal, analytical, facilitation, and executive-presentation skills.
  • Proven ability to influence across functions and levels, manage ambiguity, challenge constructively, and deliver outcomes without direct authority.
Preferred Qualifications
  • Advanced degree or relevant certifications in project or program management, agile delivery, lean, finance, cloud, data management, architecture, or IT service management.
  • Experience supporting mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, integrations, or transition service agreements.
  • Experience working across global teams, regulated environments, and matrixed operating models.
  • Familiarity with product operating models, FinOps, technology business management, service management, and organizational change management.

Additional Information

Relocation Assistance Provided: Yes

Skills Required

  • Bachelor's degree in IT, computer science, engineering, business, finance, or related field, or equivalent experience.
  • Significant experience in digital technology, data and analytics, technology operations, transformation, or portfolio management in a large, complex organization.
  • Proven success leading technology simplification, application/platform rationalization, modernization, cloud migration, or cost optimization.
  • Strong command of financial planning, business cases, forecasting, portfolio governance, and benefit realization.
  • Experience managing strategic vendors, contracts, statements of work, service levels, and commercial performance.
  • Working knowledge of modern data and analytics ecosystems (cloud platforms, data engineering, BI, AI/ML), governance, cybersecurity, privacy, and enterprise architecture.
  • Excellent written, verbal, analytical, facilitation, and executive presentation skills.
  • Proven ability to influence across functions and levels, manage ambiguity, and deliver outcomes without direct authority.
  • Advanced degree or relevant certifications in project/program management, agile, lean, finance, cloud, data management, architecture, or IT service management.
  • Experience supporting mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, integrations, or transition service agreements.
  • Experience working across global teams, regulated environments, and matrixed operating models.
  • Familiarity with product operating models, FinOps, technology business management, service management, and organizational change management.

GE Vernova Compensation & Benefits Highlights

The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about GE Vernova and has not been reviewed or approved by GE Vernova.

  • Retirement Support The 401(k) plan includes company matching contributions and additional company retirement contributions, with access to Fidelity resources and financial planning consultants. Feedback suggests this structure supports long-term savings beyond a basic match.
  • Parental & Family Support Paid parental leave is available with flexible, continuous or non-continuous usage, and is complemented by adoption resources and Work/Life Connections guidance. Maternity leave is described as extended relative to typical workplace norms.
  • Leave & Time Off Breadth Time-off programs include 12 paid holidays, permissive time off for many salaried roles, and dedicated personal, illness, and caregiving time for U.S. new hires. Some hourly roles start with a defined PTO bank, while other roles may offer unlimited time off.

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The Company
HQ: Cambridge, MA
75,000 Employees
Year Founded: 2024

What We Do

GE Vernova is a planned purpose-built company on a mission to electrify the planet while simultaneously working to decarbonize it. If we want our energy future to be different…we must be different. Our mission is embedded in our name. We retain our treasured legacy, “GE,” in our name as an enduring and hard-earned badge of quality and ingenuity. “Ver” / “verde” signal Earth’s verdant and lush ecosystems. “Nova,” from the Latin “novus,” nods to a new, innovative era of lower carbon energy that GE Vernova will help deliver. GE Vernova brings together GE’s portfolio of energy businesses including Power, Wind, Electrification and Digital businesses. With focus, GE Vernova is accelerating the path to more reliable, affordable, and sustainable energy, while helping our customers power economies and deliver the electricity that is vital to health, safety, security, and improved quality of life. Together, we have The Energy to Change the World.

Why Work With Us

Join our team, to evolve and grow, surrounded by some of the brightest minds in the industry who help you get better every day. You’ll get the chance to rewrite the rules, work on cutting-edge technology, and be part of a global team for positive change.

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