Director of Data

Description

This position will collaborate with departments across the college to drive change, promote the adoption of data management principles, and work with leadership to drive results that enhance our data quality, efficiency, insights, and capacity to support business decisions.

Examples of Duties

Ensure that data quality requirements are routinely satisfied and represented in our key performance KPIs by influencing the delivery of numerous goals.

Create curriculum, job aids, and training materials to use with our teams to emphasize the significance of data quality at every phase of our development life cycle.

Participate in and influence the development of a data quality roadmap that optimizes people, processes, and technology to raise our data quality maturity level.

Proactively offer advice on ownership and stewardship of important projects, as well as on critical quality acceptance standards such correctness, timeliness, validity, completeness, utilization, and availability of data.

Undertake complicated data profiling and data quality analysis and convey results clearly to help the college in understanding of critical needs and effects.

Support the development of the roles and duties of our data stewards and compliance requirements.

Assure that information and data are handled in line with accepted laws, rules, policies, and regulations.

Assist with the establishment, upkeep, and control of systemic data collection, ensuring they are applicable to content and/or college priorities.

Encourage the application of metadata standards by supporting the college in strategies to achieve goals and results.

Create data transformation rules, data lineage documentation, and metadata documentation for important programs and initiatives.

Create a model for reference data management and data storage in compliance with data retention requirements.

Actively spread awareness of programs across the organization while promoting a value proposition and culture for knowledge sharing.

Collaborate with other departments, divisions, or projects to achieve college goals and shared vision.

Supervise the data collection team, data collection processes and procedures.

Other duties as assigned.

Minimum Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree in computer science, data science or a related field, and/or years of experience.

Preferred Qualifications

• 5 years of relevant analytics or data management expertise
• Expertise with data analysis/querying software like Python, SAS, or SQL
• Knowledge of programming languages, tools, and methodologies for data management
• Knowledge of the capabilities of data quality, such as profiling, rules generation, validation, outlier detection, monitoring, alerting & notification, and workflow for data remediation
• Practical experience using data quality products
• Experience creating data quality standards, guidelines, and best practices and applying them into governance practices
• Demonstrated understanding of business rules, data, and overall data modeling
• Strong analytical abilities with the capacity to gather, arrange, organize, and communicate a substantial amount of information with accuracy and attention to detail
• Prior leadership experience with increasing levels of responsibility
• Expertise in data and analytics
• Ability to clearly convey ideas, designs, and concepts and to modify communication according to the audience
• Ability to make a compelling argument for change by combining storytelling, data visualization, and data management expertise
• Effective written and verbal communication and active listening skills
• Ability to identify and analyze data and business problems of moderate complexity on their own
• Ability to manage risks, pinpoint problems, find solutions, and escalate problems as required

New College of Florida (NCF) is an equal opportunity employer and educational provider committed to a policy of non-discrimination for any member of the NCF community on the basis of race, creed, color, sex, religion, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, veterans' status, marital status, or any other legally protected group status. This policy applies to faculty, staff, students, volunteers, visitors, applicants, and contractors in a manner consistent with applicable laws, regulations, ordinances, orders, and University policies, procedures, and processes.