Director, Data and Analytics

We are Progress (Nasdaq: PRGS) - the trusted provider of software that enables our customers to develop, deploy and manage responsible, AI-powered applications and experiences with agility and ease.

We're proud to have a diverse, global team where we value the individual and enrich our culture by considering varied perspectives because we believe people power progress. Join us as a Director, Data and Analytics and help us do what we do best: propelling business forward. This will be a remote role working out of your home office in the United States.

In this role, you will:

• Lead the transformation of our enterprise data environment by migrating from our legacy SQL Server data warehouse to a modern data platform, positioning the company for scale, performance, and data trust.
• Drive the transition from Tableau Server to Power BI as our standard visualization and analytics layer, including the rationalization of legacy dashboards and adoption of a governed semantic layer.
• Ensure the successful delivery and long-term integration of the ARR & Renewal Pool Data Product, working closely with our third party partner to align architecture, prevent rework, enable trust, and increase business adoption.
• Own and evolve our data engineering, analytics engineering, and BI/reporting teams, ensuring the right structure, roles, and workflows to balance day to day support and strategic execution.
• Implement a predictable data product operating model, including intake, prioritization, SLAs, ceremonies, and communication rhythms that create transparency and confidence in delivery.
• Partner closely with Finance, Sales Operations, Customer Success, Product, and IT to ensure data quality, availability, and adoption across the business.
• Establish foundational data governance, quality management, and lifecycle practices, ensuring our data is accurate, secure, and trusted.
• Communicate clearly and consistently with executives - setting expectations, sequencing work, highlighting trade offs, and providing status visibility throughout the modernization journey.

Your background:

• 10+ years in Data & Analytics, including experience leading a data platform modernization initiative in a complex enterprise environment.
• Proven success driving adoption of Power BI or a similar enterprise visualization platform, with an emphasis on Self Service rather than Dashboard curation, at scale.
• Strong familiarity with modern Data Platform concepts, semantic modeling, and analytics platform architecture, with the ability to challenge technical assumptions and guide design decisions.
• Experience building or maturing data platforms, governance practices, semantic models, AI enabled analytics and data product delivery frameworks.
• Track record of leading data engineering, analytics engineering, and BI/reporting teams, ideally in a distributed or global model.
• Demonstrated ability to partner with GTM, Finance, IT, and Executive leadership to align priorities and drive adoption.

Your soft skills:

• Product Mindset: You deliver outcomes, not artifacts - focusing on clarity, usability, adoption, and business value.
• Expectation Setter: You communicate early, directly, and clearly, especially around timelines, trade offs, and priorities.
• Influential Leader: You earn trust, challenge assumptions, and can say "no" in a way that leads to alignment, not friction.
• Calm in Ambiguity: You bring structure to complex environments and create clarity in moments of change.
• Business Savvy Storyteller: You translate complex data and technical concepts into simple, actionable business language.
• Team Developer: You coach, align, and elevate talent - building a predictable, high trust, high ownership operating model.

What we offer:

• Generous remuneration package
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan Enrollment
• 25 vacation days annually
• Birthday day off
• Community service time off
• International Women's Day - March 8 is an official holiday for all employees
• Pension plan
• Group life assurance
• Income protection coverage in case of long term illness or injury
• Private health insurance
• Hybrid working
• Cycle to Work scheme - tax efficient bike and equipment purchase