Data Services Lead

DATA SERVICES LEAD

Job Number: 416794

DEPARTMENT OF INNOVATION AND TECHNOLOGY (Delivery)

Number of Positions: 1

Additional vacancies possible pending budget approval

Starting Salary: $133,836

Applications for this position will be accepted until 11:59 pm CDT on 2/27/2026.

Under direction, this is a managerial-level classification. The class fosters value creation by means of the organization's data assets and external data ecosystem and performs related duties as required.

This class is assigned to the Leadership Technology Job Family, which consists of positions responsible for overseeing the identification, prioritization, and delivery of work activities, coaching and developing employees, providing thought leadership to business partners, and shaping and executing the technology vision and strategy to maximize business value.

• 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

Additional duties may be required for this position.

Location: 2 N La Salle

Days: Monday - Friday

Hours: 8:00 - 4:00

THIS POSITION IS NOT IN CAREER SERVICE

• 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,…