Data Officer

Bellevue is a dynamic, international and multicultural, future-focused Smart City serving 152,000 residents. Our Council vision is: “Bellevue welcomes the world, our diversity is our strength.” We value all employees and their contributions. The City invests in its employees and encourages and rewards employee growth and development by building on our commonalities and our differences. Bellevue is high tech hub, noted for its diversity, community involvement, intellectual excitement, artistic pursuits, and natural beauty.

We work collectively to make it a place where you want to work, live and play.

The IT Department consists of 70 talented employees serving over 1,800 staff in 13 departments across 35 different locations. The IT Department (ITD) supports the computers, applications, network, servers, communications, and services needed to support high quality City operations. As a full-service technology organization, ITD provides a wide range of services, including Network Systems and Security, Help Desk and Client Services, Application Development, Project Management, Technology Business Solutions, Geospatial Technology Services, and Graphics.

In addition, Bellevue ITD provides technology and business services to the regional government non-profit eCityGov Alliance. Bellevue is consistently recognized for its strong innovation, digital government and consistent top-tier performance in national digital city rankings. . Join our award-winning department to work with colleagues who partner, innovate, and evolve to deliver technology services inside and outside city hall.

The City Data Officer is responsible for the strategic leadership, governance, and enterprise-wide management of the organization’s data assets. This position leads two lines of business that include the data analytics team and the geographic technology systems team responsible for untapping the potential of data and geospatial services at the City. The candidate will work in a highly collaborative environment supporting data informed operations, engagement, and decision making across the City.

The ideal candidate is a thoughtful leader and great communicator with strong technical capabilities who takes initiative, navigates complexity with confidence, and works collaboratively to deliver results.

The candidate should have strong skills in data architecture, data engineering, technical project management, and communication.

The person holding this position thrives on partnering to define and deliver innovative and structured data and geospatial programs. This position will help define the City’s data analytics strategy and vision, design the city-wide data and integration architecture and promote best practices of data engineering. The incumbent will partner with customers and staff to initiate and manage data analytics projects while driving technology innovation to support the City’s data informed decision making.

Responsibilities include:

• Data Strategy and Governance: Develops, implements, and maintains an enterprise-wide data strategy aligned with the city’s strategic priorities. Establishes data governance frameworks, policies, and standards that define how data is collected, managed, accessed, and retired across the organization.
• Data and Spatial Infrastructure and Architecture: Provides leadership and oversight of the city’s data infrastructure, including data platforms, warehouses, lake houses, integration pipelines, and GIS systems. Partners with ITD leadership to ensure data and GIS architecture supports scalability, interoperability, and sustainability. Leads the evaluation and adoption of modern data tools, platforms, and standards including open-data technologies and cloud-based…