[Remote] Sr Dir - HR Data Analytics

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Maximus is currently seeking a Sr Director of HR Data Analytics. This role sets the enterprise strategy for HR data and insights, ensuring leaders have trusted insights for impactful workforce decisions while managing a high-performing team and vendor relationships. Responsibilities • Lead, coach, and grow a multi-disciplinary team (analytics, data engineering, and/or reporting); set priorities, operating rhythms, and performance expectations aligned to enterprise needs • Build organizational capability through talent strategy, succession planning, and knowledge management; manage budgets and vendor performance to deliver high-quality, reliable analytics services • Set the enterprise people analytics strategy, including executive dashboards and an integrated insights cadence for the HR Leadership Team and business executives • Oversee advanced analytics (e.g., predictive modeling) to quantify drivers of retention, performance, engagement, and productivity at enterprise scale • Deliver board- and executive-ready narratives that connect workforce insights to business outcomes, risk, and investment decisions • Establish disciplined methodologies for insight generation (data validation, assumptions, documentation, and reproducibility) and set quality standards for enterprise reporting • Assess and prioritize AI use cases across the HR function, partnering with HRBPs and Centers of Excellence to identify high-value opportunities • Build team capability in AI-assisted analytics tools, including prompt engineering, output validation, and critical evaluation of model results • Translate AI-generated insights into actionable narratives for CHRO and executive audiences, ensuring findings are communicated with appropriate confidence levels and caveats • Maintain data lineage documentation so that any metric or prediction can be traced back to its source, logic, and assumptions • Govern access permissions for AI-generated outputs, ensuring sensitive insights are restricted to appropriate audiences • Serve as an internal advocate for responsible AI use, raising concerns when AI applications risk producing inequitable or legally problematic outcomes • Facilitate enterprise workforce intelligence in partnership with Talent Acquisition, Learning, Total Rewards, HRBPs, and Finance to inform multi-year workforce and skills strategies • In partnership with the Strategic Workforce Planning (SWP) team, support forecasting, scenario planning, and capacity models; translate strategic plans into demand/supply insights, leading indicators, and quantified trade-offs • Own enterprise HR data governance for people analytics, including platform strategy, vendor partnerships, and integration with enterprise data/BI ecosystems • Establish and enforce enterprise measurement standards (definitions, hierarchies, metadata, and stewardship) to ensure a single source of truth for workforce metrics • Ensure data privacy, security, and compliance practices (including retention and access controls) are embedded in analytics products and AI-enabled workflows • Define the analytics technology roadmap in partnership with the Technology team; evaluate, select, and govern tools to improve insight delivery, automation, and self-service analytics across HR and the enterprise • Serve as the enterprise people analytics advisor to the CHRO and HR Leadership Team, shaping decisions through data-driven perspectives and measurable outcomes • Lead analytics support for enterprise initiatives (e.g., growth, transformation, M&A integration, skills strategy), aligning metrics, governance, and change adoption • Influence senior stakeholders across HR, Technology, Finance, and operations; establish engagement models, service levels, and governance forums that enable enterprise-wide alignment Skills • Bachelor's degree in relevant field of study • 12+ years of relevant professional experience required Benefits • Health insurance coverage • Life and disability insurance • A retirement savings plan • Paid holidays • Paid time off Company Overview • Maximus helps governments deliver on their mission with modern services that improve outcomes and citizen experiences. It was founded in 1975, and is headquartered in Mclean, Virginia, USA, with a workforce of 10001+ employees. Its website is http://www.maximus.com/. Company H1B Sponsorship • Maximus has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 9 in 2026, 39 in 2025, 39 in 2024, 50 in 2023, 42 in 2022, 36 in 2021, 42 in 2020. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.