Director of Data

Job Posting Title Director of Data Agency 090 OFFICE OF MANAGEMENT AND ENTERPRISE SERV Supervisory Organization IS-App Dev Job Posting End Date Refer to the date listed at the top of this posting, if available. Continuous if date is blank.

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Applications will be accepted until 11:59 PM on the day prior to the posting end date above. Estimated Appointment End Date (Continuous if Blank) Full/Part-Time Full time Job Type Regular Compensation Job Description Director of Data State Data Platform, Database Administration & Analytics Position Summary The Director of Data is the accountable leader for the state's enterprise data platform — keeping it secure, reliable, and cost-effective today while modernizing it for what agencies will need tomorrow.

This role leads a small, hands‑on team of database administrators, data engineers, and analytics professionals, and serves as the primary technology partner to state agencies on how they store, share, protect, and use data to deliver on their missions. The ideal candidate is equally comfortable running production database operations, setting a multi-year platform roadmap, and sitting across the table from agency leadership to turn program goals into data solutions.

Success in this role is measured by platform reliability, agency adoption and satisfaction, and the measurable value data creates for the residents the state serves.

• Platform Operations & Reliability Own the day-to-day operation, availability, performance, and capacity of the state data platform, including on-premises and cloud database environments (e.g., SQL Server, Oracle, PostgreSQL, GCP, and Azure data services). Establish and report on service level objectives for availability, recovery time (RTO), recovery point (RPO), and query performance. Direct backup, recovery, patching, upgrade, and disaster recovery practices; ensure DR is tested on a defined cadence.
  
  Partner with the Service Operations Team on observability, alerting, incident command, and problem management so data services follow the same operational standards as the rest of the enterprise. Drive automation of routine database administration — provisioning, patching, monitoring, and access requests — to reduce toil and manual risk.
• Platform Innovation & Modernization Develop and execute a multi-year roadmap for the state data platform, including database consolidation, cloud migration, modern data integration, and a governed enterprise analytics environment. Evaluate and introduce modern capabilities — data lakehouse architecture, self-service analytics, real-time data sharing, and AI/ML-ready data — where they create clear agency value. Rationalize the database and tooling portfolio to reduce licensing cost, technical debt, and end-of-support exposure.
  
  Establish reference architectures and reusable patterns so agencies can onboard faster and more consistently.
• Agency Partnership & Data Services Serve as the trusted data advisor to agency CIOs, program leaders, and data stewards; understand agency missions and translate them into data and analytics solutions. Build and manage a service catalog for data platform services, with clear intake, prioritization, and onboarding processes. Facilitate secure, lawful cross-agency data sharing through data sharing agreements and standardized integration patterns.
  
  Lead analytics engagements that help agencies measure program outcomes, improve operations, and support evidence-based policy decisions. Run regular agency forums, roadmap reviews, and satisfaction feedback loops; act on what is heard.
• Data Governance, Security & Compliance Partner with the Chief Information Security Officer, Chief Privacy Officer, and agency data stewards to implement data…