Data Management and Analytics Director

Data Management and Analytics DirectorJackson, MSDuration: 36+ months Required:Position Description and Job Skill Set:Description of the job functions the contractor will be expected to perform.This key role is primarily responsible for implementing the Agency’s data strategy, which includes identifying current and future data to gather, store, retrieve, analyze, and report in support of the organization’s programs and operations, including governance of over the business data. This includes data for decision support, business intelligence, governance, customer relationship management, data warehousing, meta-data repositories, operational data stores, and enterprise storage management. The Director of Data Management & Analytics will work with the Chief Information Security Officer on matters related to data privacy and security. This role will assess and develop mission critical programs, act as a change agent, to lead the transformation of the organization through execution of the evolving data strategy. - Facilitate the establishment and execution of the roadmap and vision for information delivery and management, including the enterprise data warehouse, big data, BI & analytics, content management and data management - Lead data architects and data engineers to architect and deliver the solutions that fulfill the Business information needs and align with the information vision and strategy - Apply business strategy while driving technology strategy, balancing short term and long term needs to ensure that the architecture can scale and evolve accordingly - Engage an end-to-end approach by connecting all the pieces of data to deliver the data while leveraging all available assets - Provide advice, guidance, direction, and authorization to carry out major plans and procedures to ensure schedule attainment, product development process adherence, and performance and budget targets are met - Take an active role in the performance management process by completing goal setting, interim review, and year-end review on a timely basis and soliciting ongoing feedback - Drive and improve data management, reporting and analytics team and compells collaboration Required Skills/Experience:Provide the minimum required skills and/or experience the contractor must possess to qualify for this position. These requirements will be transferred to the Score Sheet and candidates without these requirements reflected on their resume will NOT be presented to the manager for consideration.- Minimum ten years of progressive information management solutions and end-to-end development life-cycle support and processes - Minimum eight years leading a team including architects, engineers, quality assurance, and operations professionals Bachelor’s degree in computer science or relevant field from an accredited college or university - Established experience delivering information management solutions to large numbers of end users - Demonstrated understanding of enterprise data warehouse, big data, BI & analytics, content management and data management - Experience with two or more vendors in any of the following areas including; SQL Server, Oracle 11g, MySQL, SQL Data Warehouse Appliance, Oracle Exadata, Netezza, Greenplum, Vertica, Teradata, Aster Data, SAP HANA, Hadoop, SAS, SPSS, Spotfire, Tableau, Qlikview, R, Oracle Endeca, Oracle OBIEE, SAP Business Objects, SAS and other Analytics Vendors with BI componentsPreferred/Not Required:Provide any skills/experience that would be helpful for the candidate to possess but not required. Examples: Previous supervisory experience, WebLogic experience helpful, etc.- PMI Certified