Data Strategy Leader

Company: The Doyle Group
Location: Lyons
Posted on: April 10, 2021

Job Description:

Data & Analytics Strategy LeaderOverview of RoleThis role will be responsible for leading data and performance measurement strategy, managing core data assets including an enterprise data warehouse, and providing thought leadership and strategic partnership around data governance, integration, architecture, and analytics practices. This role will also focus on data usability, availability, analysis techniques and support of data products. This position will manage a central IT team made up of data & GIS analyst(s), data engineer(s) and data scientist(s) and work closely with our enterprise applications, infrastructure, and digital transformation teams.Essential Job Duties & Responsibilities:The Data & Analytics Strategy Leader:-- Drives the city's vision around data and analytics and creates a roadmap to accomplish this vision. This includes (but is not limited to) data related to legacy enterprise and department-specific applications, a growing network of IoT devices, and ongoing transformational technology initiatives around customer relationship management, budgeting, and policy reform.-- Leads the city strategy around future and existing data initiatives, including (but not limited to) the enterprise data platform (EDP) ecosystem (currently in discovery/proof of concept phase), enterprise performance measures, and Open Data.-- Partners with the Application Support Manager, the city's GIS team, and other product owners to develop a roadmap to sustainably develop and support data products and applications.-- Manages a team of data and analytics professionals, coordinating and executing initiatives focused on transforming data into actionable insights across the data lifecycle, including collection, pipelines, storage, analytics, and visualization.-- Manages enterprise GIS program administration and coordinates closely with GIS analysts in operational departments.-- Provides technical and strategic leadership to champion the city's data policy and implementation of master data management.

• Facilitates a data steward community of practice (analysts or data-focused roles from each department across the city), culturing data competency across the organization, standardizing analytic methodologies, tools, and skill development paths, and promoting self-service analytics.
  Required Minimum Qualification
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Business Administration, or a closely related field and at least seven (7) years of increasingly responsible management experience.
  • Previous experience of successfully leading data and analytics projects and teams
  • Experience in platform integration, understanding of database concepts, and application development.
  • Comprehensive understanding of digital technologies and related market trends
  • Demonstrated ability to work collaboratively, to assume responsibility, to prioritize and resolve problems, to work under pressure, to pay close attention to detail, to coordinate tasks to completion and provide quality control for responsiveness and customer satisfaction.
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to effectively communicate and interact with the public and all levels of personnel within the city in a positive and cooperative manner.Key Competencies As a key leadership position within the IT Department, the Data Strategy Senior Manager should have and utilize the following competencies:
    • Ability to effectively deal with Ambiguity: works well within an evolving environment; remains effective when the vision or direction is vague, and performs within an acceptable level of risk.
    • Strategic Agility: continuously adapts and adjusts; can create strategies for innovative solutions that best fit the organization; actively monitors possible implementation problems and evolving needs and selects efficient and effective alternatives.
    • Political Savviness: creates consensus through good inter-personal skills and has a strong understanding of political issues; maintains high ethical standards while working subtly and effectively with the organizational structure; avoids missteps by calculating the outcome and consequences of alternative courses of action based on a realistic assessment of the situation.
    • Technical and Business Acumen: Ability to present complex technical opportunities as outcome-focused business solutions.
    • Organizational Agility: Has the ability to perform within all levels of the organization and obtain successful outcomes; interacts with internal and external stakeholders and customers in a manner that supports organizational values.
    • Motivational Attitude: Facilitates a positive work environment that supports peak performance; has the ability to determine what encourages others and demonstrates an ability to delegate while fostering independent decision-making.

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