Director of Data Governance; Senior Public Service Administrator, Option

Director of Data Governance (Senior Public Service Administrator, Option
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We continually strive for a workforce that reflects the growing diversity within the State of Illinois. A variety of employee backgrounds, perspectives, ideas and experiences are crucial to our ability to most effectively serve the public. Bilingual skills welcome.

The Department of Innovation & Technology (DoIT) is seeking to hire qualified candidates with the opportunity to work in a dynamic, creative thinking, problem solving environment. This position serves as the Director of Data Governance to lead the enterprise data governance program by defining governance architectures, establishing statewide standards, and operationalizing multi agency data security compliance and data quality frameworks.

It presents enterprise data risk posture to executive leadership and oversight bodies to secure approval and guide strategic planning, investment decisions, and corrective action. The role oversees data quality and observability capabilities by defining measurable standards, implementing monitoring and lineage awareness controls, and ensuring consistent risk mitigation across agencies while ensuring that enterprise data is findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable. It also facilitates functional governance councils and partners with legal, security, and compliance teams to establish enforceable data controls, accountability structures, classification and retention standards, and enterprise incident remediation processes.

If you possess these knowledges, skills, abilities and experience, we invite you to apply for this position to join the DoIT Team! As a State of Illinois employee, you receive a comprehensive benefits package including:

• Competitive Group Insurance benefits including health, life, dental and vision plans
• Flexible work schedules
• Paid vacation time
• Paid sick time
• Paid personal business days
• Paid holidays
• Paid parental leave
• Pension plan
• Deferred Compensation Program
• Optional pre-tax programs
• Tuition Reimbursement Program

Essential Functions:

• Serves as the Director of Applied Analytics
• Leads the enterprise data quality and data observability program
• Works with cross-functional team members
• Provides enterprise leadership for operationalization of governance councils
• Acts in a confidential and policy-making capacity advising executive leadership
• Keeps abreast of new developments in the information technology field
• Performs other duties as required or assigned

Minimum Qualifications:

• Requires knowledge, skill, and mental development equivalent to completion of four (4) years of college with coursework in management information systems, information technology, computer science, Data Science, Law, or related field.
• Requires four (4) years of progressively responsible professional experience in data governance, enterprise data management, compliance, privacy, or information policy, preferably in the job-related subject matter area.
• Requires three (3) years of professional experience supervising a team of Information Technology professionals in a large and highly complex public or private IT organization.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Four (4) years of professional experience interpreting statutory, regulatory, audit, and compliance requirements and translating them into enforceable operational governance policies, frameworks, standards, and controls that are defensible in highly regulated organizations.
• Four (4) years of professional experience enabling the FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable) framework through the development and implementation of enterprise data governance, quality, and metadata practices that support statewide data discoverability, and reuse.
• Four (4) years of professional experience in data quality management, including establishing measurable dimensional data quality standards, defining enterprise quality thresholds, and overseeing quality rule implementation.
• Three (3) years of professional experience implementing and managing data observability platforms, including monitoring, anomaly detection, lineage aware quality controls, operational diagnostics, and enterprise risk reduction practices.
• Three (3) years of professional experience implementing and operationalizing enterprise data cataloging and lineage solutions, including establishing metadata standards, integrating automated lineage capture, and supporting multi agency transparency and traceability.
• Three (3) years of professional experience leading cross functional data governance councils or working groups, including establishing charters, defining decision rights, resolving cross domain issues, and aligning multi agency stakeholders.
• Four (4) years of professional experience designing domain based accountability structures, data classification and retention standards, and managing enterprise level data risk incidents through remediation and corrective action plans.
• Advanced analytical skills using enterprise data to improve service delivery, operational…