Vp, IT

About the Team

It's an exciting time in technology, and that buzz is felt throughout PetSmart We are continuing to grow at a faster pace and we want to continue to provide best-in-class experiences for pets and pet parents.

Our
Technology team** has 4 different departments:
Information Security, IT Service Delivery, Business Enabling Systems, and IT Commerce & Customer Engagement.

Whether it's online or in our stores, the work that the Technology team does is instrumental in PetSmart's success.

We have a strategic and actionable plan underway and are looking for associates who are just as excited about it as we are.

About the Location

Onsite Position:

This position is based in Phoenix, Arizona at the corporate Home Office and is considered to be Fully Onsite, work is to be done onsite at a PetSmart location (Phoenix Home Office, PetSmart stores, Merchandise Development Center, Distribution Centers or another PetSmart site).

About the Job ROLE MISSION STATEMENT**The
Vice President of IT - Data and Engineering is a role that serves as a leader for PetSmart's Enterprise Data and Analytics technology domain, a group driven to innovate, create, and succeed. This domain's passion isn't focused on charts and graphs; its members are here to disrupt and start a cultural revolution that leads to a data revolution. PetSmart is seeking a technologically creative, passionate, and hands-on leader who will lead their data-focused Software Engineering, Architecture, Analytics, and Operations teams. This role is critical to motivate, guide, and vision the company's new Cloud-based data factory by providing inspiring leadership, insightful management, and interactive involvement in software and business development across all levels of the organization to include the PetSmart executive team.

KEY ROLE RESPONSIBILITES

• Articulating and executing technology, business, and organizational strategies to lead the Data Engineering team responsible for creating simple, stable, and scalable data products/platforms
• Actively leading the technology domain that includes data architecture, data engineering (inclusive of big data supporting data science), data integration, data operations, and business strategy that advances ideas into transformational new capabilities
• Defining and encouraging the development and implementation of selfservice tools, increasing data literacy across the wider business functions
• Working broadly across technical and nontechnical teams to craft realistic plans, translate technical concepts, and advance the data environment to the futurestate data architecture
• Acting as a change agent in driving new ways to enable the utilization of data by bringing the art of the possible to realization in futurestate designs, leveraging your own vision in driving outcomes, innovating with new technologies, and driving new ways of working within a compelling future state
• Ensuring the team delivers on time, on budget, and to specification; using every delivery as a chance to iterate and improve the team, quality of data, and the use of data
• Enhancing the data domain of resources in the team's ability to leverage best practices and tools to drive both scale and throughput at a level to be admired across the IT industry
• Mentoring and coaching leaders and individual contributors to grow, reach their fullest potential, and have a healthy bench of future leaders
• Understanding there are fundamentals to managing data which require and ability to know it, federate it, mobilize it, govern it, and use it; these fundamentals provide you with the power to implement a holistic data management strategy which does not only allow you to ensure that your data is fully protected, but also enables you to activate this data for business value
• Responsible for the scoping, selection, negotiation and managing relationships with all external data technology partners

KEY COMPETENCIES

• Excellent oral and written communication skills across all levels of an organization, and especially with senior executive management
• Willingness to seek out and enjoy handson involvement with technologies and platforms used within the group
• Eagerness and passion to continue to learn new technologies outside of the daytoday role, keen understanding of Cloudbased and softwareasaservice (SaaS) technologies
• Ability to quickly understand and explain complex data/issues and distill complex and voluminous data into understandable information for a wide audience
• Ability to leverage creativity, vision, and precision execution to solve challenging business problems with simple, scalable, and competitive enabling technology solutions
• Passion for data, technology, innovation, and building great teams
• Understanding that no single solution can solve all problems; firmly believe in the power and need to leverage modern data ecosystems
• Experience in working with Data Science teams to prov

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