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As a family-owned company under our fourth generation of leadership, we have built our business based on the principles of trust, integrity, and a desire to help our customers and employees succeed.
Since 1926, we’ve supported the strength of our communities by supplying equipment for critical infrastructure and commerce, and by funding programs that advance social and economic vitality. Being around for nearly 100 years means we change and pivot to capture opportunities and avoid challenges. We make smart investments in our company and continuously improve as part of our vision to be a trailblazing company that’s built to last.
We’re looking for hard-working, team-oriented professionals who enjoy working on new challenges every day. We believe our employees are the key to our success, and we’re committed to providing a work experience that helps our team grow to their full potential.
Join a leading solutions provider and be a part of a group of highly skilled technicians, sales and support team members who exist to serve as a trusted partner to our customers, communities, and fellow employees.
Summary
The Director of Business Intelligence (BI) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) Enablement, is responsible for two (2) primary functions within Weisiger Group:
- Manage the Business Intelligence Team within the Business Technology department. This includes maturing current-state BI staff, processes, and technology to drive accountability and achieve greater value in this workspace (short-term), while also identifying the BI roadmap as our company transitions to a BI/AI technology hybrid.
- Lead AI enablement and adoption across the enterprise. This includes a mix of providing resources to maintain existing reporting technologies while reallocating existing resources to shift the focus to developing AI business solutions and hiring strategic new roles and AI talent.
This leader will drive the adoption of AI for the enterprise and is responsible for defining and executing a strategic roadmap that evolves the organization from traditional reporting and dashboards toward AI-enabled insights, automation, and decision support. This role will partner closely with senior business and information technology leaders and team members, as well as vendors and external consultants, to ensure data, analytics, and AI capabilities deliver measurable business value while maintaining appropriate governance, security, and compliance standards. The ideal candidate will possess a strong combination of AI technical expertise and thought leadership, people management skills, organization change management, and communications and training knowledge.
This role reports to the SVP, Chief Technology Officer of Weisiger Group and will be a member of the Business Technology team. As a Shared Services employee, the candidate will be expected to support two divisions that are headquartered in different areas of Charlotte, NC and have branches across the Southeast United States. Occasional travel will be required and will be based on the support requirements of the projects assigned. This is an onsite dependent role located in Charlotte, NC.
Essential Functions
BI & Data Analytics:
- Oversee the design, development, and support of enterprise reporting, dashboards, data pipelines, and analytical solutions.
- Ensure data quality, governance, security, and compliance standards are maintained across all analytics platforms.
- Partner with business leaders to identify opportunities for improved decision-making through data and analytics.
- Manage data analytics and AI vendor relationships, contracts, and platforms.
AI Enablement & Transformation:
- Establish the vision, strategy, and roadmap for enterprise AI enablement.
- Execute the AI enablement strategy and roadmap, aligned with business priorities and enterprise technology objectives.
- Lead the transition from traditional business intelligence reporting toward AI-driven insights, automation, and decision support capabilities.
- Evaluate, recommend, and govern enterprise AI platforms, tools, and services.
- Partner with cybersecurity, legal, and risk management teams to ensure safe and compliant AI adoption, AI practices, governance frameworks, usage policies, and operational standards.
- Partner with infrastructure teams to implement scalable, resilient, and sustainable solutions.
- Identify and prioritize AI use cases that deliver measurable business outcomes and operational efficiencies.
- Collaborate with business stakeholders to define requirements and translate business needs into AI solutions.
- Oversee delivery of AI initiatives from concept through implementation and adoption.
- Champion an AI-enabled culture across the organization, developing AI literacy, awareness, and training programs for business users and technology teams.
- Establish performance metrics and success criteria for AI programs.
Team Leadership:
- Lead a team of professionals including data engineers, BI developers, AI enablement resources, automation engineers, and data analysts.
- Recruit, develop, coach, and retain high-performing analytics and AI talent.
- Foster a culture of innovation, collaboration, accountability, and continuous learning.
- Establish career paths and skill development plans supporting the evolution from BI-focused capabilities to advanced analytics and AI expertise.
Supervisory Responsibilities
This job has supervisory responsibilities over the Business Technology BI team (today) and AI staff (future-state).
Qualifications
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable qualifying individuals to perform the essential functions.
Education and/or Experience
- Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Data Analytics, Engineering, Business, or related field.
- 10+ years of experience in data, analytics, business intelligence, or related technology functions.
- 5+ years of leadership experience managing technical teams and delivering enterprise-scale analytics solutions.
- Experience leading data engineering, business intelligence, or analytics organizations.
- Experience developing technology roadmaps and leading organizational transformation initiatives.
- Strong understanding of data architecture, data warehousing, data integration, reporting platforms, and analytics technologies.
- Experience partnering with business leaders to identify and deliver data-driven business solutions.
- Experience implementing enterprise AI, machine learning, generative AI, or intelligent automation solutions.
Knowledge and Skills
- Excellent communication, stakeholder management, and leadership skills.
- Experience with Microsoft Power BI, Azure Data Platform, Microsoft Copilot, Azure AI Services, Anthropic technologies, Snowflake Platform, Talend Integration Services, and related technologies.
- Familiarity with AI governance, responsible AI practices, and enterprise AI risk management.
- Good working knowledge of industry-standard AI methodologies and best practices.
- Exceptional communication skills, which are essential for interacting with key stakeholders at all levels across the organization to manage, inform and influence successful outcomes.
Reasoning Ability
Ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists. Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram, or schedule form.
Workplace Requirements
The physical demands and work environment described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
Physical Demands
While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is regularly required to stand; walk; use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms and talk or hear. The employee is frequently required to sit. The employee must frequently lift, carry, push, pull and/or otherwise move up to 25 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus.
Work Environment
While performing the duties of this Job, depending on site location, the employee may be exposed to moving mechanical parts and equipment. The employee may occasionally be exposed to high, precarious places, fumes or airborne particles; outside weather conditions and vibration. The employee may occasionally be exposed to wet and/or humid conditions; toxic or caustic chemicals; extreme cold; extreme heat and risk of electrical shock. The noise level in some work environments is occasionally loud.
We are an Equal Opportunity Employer
We require all employees to treat all our employees and candidates as equals. All personnel actions are conducted in the spirit of equal employment. We’re committed to recruit, train, promote and retain associates without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identification and expression, national origin, marital status, age, disability, genetic information, military status, sexual orientation or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal laws.
We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, or assessing responses. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed, please contact us.
Join the Weisiger Group Team
As a family-owned company under our fourth generation of leadership, we have built our business based on the principles of trust, integrity, and a desire to help our customers and employees succeed.
Since 1926, we’ve supported the strength of our communities by supplying equipment for critical infrastructure and commerce, and by funding programs that advance social and economic vitality. Being around for nearly 100 years means we change and pivot to capture opportunities and avoid challenges. We make smart investments in our company and continuously improve as part of our vision to be a trailblazing company that’s built to last.
We’re looking for hard-working, team-oriented professionals who enjoy working on new challenges every day. We believe our employees are the key to our success, and we’re committed to providing a work experience that helps our team grow to their full potential.
Join a leading solutions provider and be a part of a group of highly skilled technicians, sales and support team members who exist to serve as a trusted partner to our customers, communities, and fellow employees.
Summary
The Director of Business Intelligence (BI) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) Enablement, is responsible for two (2) primary functions within Weisiger Group:
- Manage the Business Intelligence Team within the Business Technology department. This includes maturing current-state BI staff, processes, and technology to drive accountability and achieve greater value in this workspace (short-term), while also identifying the BI roadmap as our company transitions to a BI/AI technology hybrid.
- Lead AI enablement and adoption across the enterprise. This includes a mix of providing resources to maintain existing reporting technologies while reallocating existing resources to shift the focus to developing AI business solutions and hiring strategic new roles and AI talent.
This leader will drive the adoption of AI for the enterprise and is responsible for defining and executing a strategic roadmap that evolves the organization from traditional reporting and dashboards toward AI-enabled insights, automation, and decision support. This role will partner closely with senior business and information technology leaders and team members, as well as vendors and external consultants, to ensure data, analytics, and AI capabilities deliver measurable business value while maintaining appropriate governance, security, and compliance standards. The ideal candidate will possess a strong combination of AI technical expertise and thought leadership, people management skills, organization change management, and communications and training knowledge.
This role reports to the SVP, Chief Technology Officer of Weisiger Group and will be a member of the Business Technology team. As a Shared Services employee, the candidate will be expected to support two divisions that are headquartered in different areas of Charlotte, NC and have branches across the Southeast United States. Occasional travel will be required and will be based on the support requirements of the projects assigned. This is an onsite dependent role located in Charlotte, NC.
Essential Functions
BI & Data Analytics:
- Oversee the design, development, and support of enterprise reporting, dashboards, data pipelines, and analytical solutions.
- Ensure data quality, governance, security, and compliance standards are maintained across all analytics platforms.
- Partner with business leaders to identify opportunities for improved decision-making through data and analytics.
- Manage data analytics and AI vendor relationships, contracts, and platforms.
AI Enablement & Transformation:
- Establish the vision, strategy, and roadmap for enterprise AI enablement.
- Execute the AI enablement strategy and roadmap, aligned with business priorities and enterprise technology objectives.
- Lead the transition from traditional business intelligence reporting toward AI-driven insights, automation, and decision support capabilities.
- Evaluate, recommend, and govern enterprise AI platforms, tools, and services.
- Partner with cybersecurity, legal, and risk management teams to ensure safe and compliant AI adoption, AI practices, governance frameworks, usage policies, and operational standards.
- Partner with infrastructure teams to implement scalable, resilient, and sustainable solutions.
- Identify and prioritize AI use cases that deliver measurable business outcomes and operational efficiencies.
- Collaborate with business stakeholders to define requirements and translate business needs into AI solutions.
- Oversee delivery of AI initiatives from concept through implementation and adoption.
- Champion an AI-enabled culture across the organization, developing AI literacy, awareness, and training programs for business users and technology teams.
- Establish performance metrics and success criteria for AI programs.
Team Leadership:
- Lead a team of professionals including data engineers, BI developers, AI enablement resources, automation engineers, and data analysts.
- Recruit, develop, coach, and retain high-performing analytics and AI talent.
- Foster a culture of innovation, collaboration, accountability, and continuous learning.
- Establish career paths and skill development plans supporting the evolution from BI-focused capabilities to advanced analytics and AI expertise.
Supervisory Responsibilities
This job has supervisory responsibilities over the Business Technology BI team (today) and AI staff (future-state).
Qualifications
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable qualifying individuals to perform the essential functions.
Education and/or Experience
- Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Data Analytics, Engineering, Business, or related field.
- 10+ years of experience in data, analytics, business intelligence, or related technology functions.
- 5+ years of leadership experience managing technical teams and delivering enterprise-scale analytics solutions.
- Experience leading data engineering, business intelligence, or analytics organizations.
- Experience developing technology roadmaps and leading organizational transformation initiatives.
- Strong understanding of data architecture, data warehousing, data integration, reporting platforms, and analytics technologies.
- Experience partnering with business leaders to identify and deliver data-driven business solutions.
- Experience implementing enterprise AI, machine learning, generative AI, or intelligent automation solutions.
Knowledge and Skills
- Excellent communication, stakeholder management, and leadership skills.
- Experience with Microsoft Power BI, Azure Data Platform, Microsoft Copilot, Azure AI Services, Anthropic technologies, Snowflake Platform, Talend Integration Services, and related technologies.
- Familiarity with AI governance, responsible AI practices, and enterprise AI risk management.
- Good working knowledge of industry-standard AI methodologies and best practices.
- Exceptional communication skills, which are essential for interacting with key stakeholders at all levels across the organization to manage, inform and influence successful outcomes.
Reasoning Ability
Ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists. Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram, or schedule form.
Workplace Requirements
The physical demands and work environment described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
Physical Demands
While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is regularly required to stand; walk; use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms and talk or hear. The employee is frequently required to sit. The employee must frequently lift, carry, push, pull and/or otherwise move up to 25 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus.
Work Environment
While performing the duties of this Job, depending on site location, the employee may be exposed to moving mechanical parts and equipment. The employee may occasionally be exposed to high, precarious places, fumes or airborne particles; outside weather conditions and vibration. The employee may occasionally be exposed to wet and/or humid conditions; toxic or caustic chemicals; extreme cold; extreme heat and risk of electrical shock. The noise level in some work environments is occasionally loud.
We are an Equal Opportunity Employer
We require all employees to treat all our employees and candidates as equals. All personnel actions are conducted in the spirit of equal employment. We’re committed to recruit, train, promote and retain associates without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identification and expression, national origin, marital status, age, disability, genetic information, military status, sexual orientation or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal laws.
We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, or assessing responses. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed, please contact us.
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Frame your degree for specialty occupation
Your degree field must directly relate to business intelligence work. A degree in computer science, statistics, information systems, or applied mathematics maps cleanly. A general business degree alone can trigger an RFE, so document any graduate coursework that strengthens the connection.
Target companies with active LCA filing history
Use Migrate Mate to identify employers who have filed Labor Condition Applications for BI Director or related data leadership roles. Prior LCA activity signals an established sponsorship process, reducing the risk of offer rescission during H-1B preparation.
Verify prevailing wage tier before negotiating
Director-level BI roles typically fall under wage Level III or IV in the OFLC Wage Search. Confirm the prevailing wage for your metro area before accepting an offer. The LCA must certify your salary at or above that threshold or DOL will reject it.
Ask about PERM sponsorship timelines upfront
Many BI Director candidates are hired on H-1B but need a green card path. Ask during final-round interviews whether the company has sponsored PERM for similar roles before, since the recruitment and advertising process alone takes six to twelve months before DOL adjudication.
Document your BI tooling expertise for the I-129 petition
USCIS scrutinizes whether a BI Director role genuinely requires a specialized degree rather than general management experience. Your petition is stronger when it specifically references technical competencies like data modeling, SQL, or platform architecture tied to your educational background.
Use O*NET to align your job description language
The O*NET occupation profile for Business Intelligence analysts and directors lists core tasks that support specialty occupation classification. Cross-reference your offer letter's job duties against those descriptions before your employer finalizes the LCA job title and duties section.
Frequently Asked Questions
Does a Director of Business Intelligence role qualify for H-1B sponsorship?
Yes. Director of Business Intelligence positions qualify as specialty occupations because they require at least a bachelor's degree in a directly related field such as computer science, information systems, or statistics. USCIS evaluates the specific duties in the job description, so the petition is strongest when the role emphasizes technical responsibilities like data architecture, predictive modeling, or analytical platform oversight rather than general management.
Which visas support sponsorship for BI Director candidates?
The H-1B is the most common path for employer-sponsored BI Directors. Australian nationals can apply for the E-3 visa, which has no lottery and renews every two years. Canadian and Mexican nationals may qualify under TN visa if the role maps to an eligible USMCA profession. Longer-term, EB-2 or EB-3 green card sponsorship through PERM is available at companies that commit to permanent employment.
Is a master's degree required to get H-1B sponsorship as a BI Director?
A master's degree isn't required, but it strengthens the petition considerably. USCIS uses a four-part test to determine specialty occupation status. A bachelor's degree in a directly related field satisfies the minimum. However, a master's in data science, business analytics, or a related discipline reduces the risk of a Request for Evidence challenging whether the role truly requires a specialized degree.
How do I find employers who actively sponsor BI Director roles?
Search Migrate Mate to browse BI Director and data leadership positions from employers with verified sponsorship history. Filtering by role type lets you focus on companies that have already navigated the LCA and H-1B process for comparable positions, which significantly reduces the risk of an employer declining to sponsor after extending an offer.
What can delay or complicate sponsorship for a BI Director position?
The most common complication is a mismatch between the degree field and the job duties, which can generate an H-1B RFE. At the PERM stage, employers must prove no qualified U.S. workers are available, which involves a formal recruitment process that can take over a year. Country of birth affects green card wait times significantly, with applicants from India and China facing much longer priority date backlogs than other nationalities.
What is the prevailing wage requirement for sponsored Director of Business Intelligence jobs?
U.S. employers sponsoring a visa must pay at least the prevailing wage, which is what workers in the same role, area, and experience level typically earn. The Department of Labor sets this rate to make sure companies aren't hiring foreign workers simply because they'd accept lower pay than a U.S. worker. It varies by job title, location, and experience. You can look up current prevailing wage rates for any occupation and location using the OFLC Wage Search page.