City of Chicago · 10 hours ago
DATA SERVICES LEAD
Chicago, IL
Full-time
Onsite
Director/Executive
$134K/yr - $134K/yr
9+ years expThe City of Chicago is seeking a Data Services Lead to oversee the management of data assets and enhance the organization's data capabilities. This managerial role involves leading a team, developing strategies for data governance, and fostering a data-driven culture across the enterprise.
Non ProfitAssociation
Responsibilities
Develops, manages, allocates, and governs the annual budget for the office of the Data Services Team
Organizes and leads a data and analytics center of excellence, and constantly improves the organization’s capacity to develop insights with advanced analytics
Defines members’ responsibilities and accountabilities for both
Defines job roles, recruits candidates, and manages (directly or indirectly) a team of data and analytics governance leaders and senior information management professionals in different regions or business units across a complex, diverse enterprise
Leads the development, publishing, and maintenance of the organization’s information architecture, as well as a roadmap for its future development, ensuring that it matches and supports business needs
Aligns data policy and administration with relevant regulatory, legal, and ethical mandates (e.g., creating value through data exploitation, envisioning data-enabled strategies, enabling all forms of business outcomes through analytics, establishing data and analytics governance, specifying enterprise information policy, and establishing a data-driven culture)
Takes authority, responsibility, and accountability for exploiting the value of enterprise information assets, and of the analytics used to render insights for decision making, automated decisions, and augmentation of human performance
Develops methods to ensure consistent application and use of analytics
Institutes an enterprise operating model that is consistent with the capabilities and competencies required to execute the strategy
Oversees the development and deployment of the enterprise’s data and analytics platform for digital business
Leads research, strategy creation, and development of new data products or services to expand markets, monetize data (directly and indirectly), and grow company revenue
Expands the organization’s research and analytics offerings, especially in emerging analytical approaches, skills, and technologies, focusing them on digital business innovation
Fosters the creation of a data-driven culture, related competencies, and data literacy across the enterprise — leads these transformation efforts
Identifies new kinds, types, and sources of data to enable business innovation throughout the organization
Creates and oversees a centralized service for sourcing external data to ensure quality, traceability, timeliness, usability, and cost-effectiveness
Defines processes for the effective, integrated introduction of new data
Creates and expands open data offerings to empower citizens, and to enable better government and commercial services
Leads regulatory and compliance programs related to data and analytics assets
Oversees the integration and staging of data, and the development and maintenance of the data lakes, data warehouse, and data marts, for use by analysts throughout the organization
Qualification
Required
Nine (9) years of work experience in business management, legal, financial, information or IT management or leading cross-functional teams and enterprise-wide programs, of which two (2) years are in a management/supervisory role related to the responsibilities of the position
Graduation from an accredited college with an Associate's degree in Business Administration, Computer Science, Data Science, Information Science or a directly related field, plus seven (7) years of work experience in business management, legal, financial, information or IT management or leading cross-functional teams and enterprise wide programs, of which two (2) years are in a management/supervisory role related to the responsibilities of the position
Graduation from an accredited college or university with a Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Computer Science, Data Science, Information Science or a directly related field, plus five (5) years of work experience in business management, legal, financial, information or IT management or leading cross-functional teams and enterprise wide programs, of which two (2) years are in a management/supervisory role related to the responsibilities of the position
Graduation from an accredited college or university with a Master's degree or higher in Business Administration, Computer Science, Data Science, Information Science or a directly related field, plus four (4) years of work experience in business management, legal, financial, information or IT management or leading cross-functional teams and enterprise wide programs, of which two (2) years are in a management/supervisory role related to the responsibilities of the position
Experience in integrating complex, cross-corporate processes and information strategies, and/or designing strategic metrics and scorecards
Preferred
Strategy and Management
Company
City of Chicago
The city of Chicago provides services, programs and initiatives for Chicago residents, businesses, and visitors.
10001+ employees
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Current Stage
Late StageLeadership Team
Jill Jaworski
Chief Financial Officer
Rhett Bomher
Chief of Staff to the Chief Financial Officer, Mayor's Office
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