Title: Chief Data Officer at CDOT in Denver CO
Company: Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT)
Location: 4201 E. Arkansas Ave. Denver CO
SALARY: $10,000.00 – $12,500.00 Monthly
Job Application Opening Date: 02/08/16
Job Application Closing Date: Continuous
DESCRIPTION OF JOB:
The Colorado Department of Transportation is seeking an exceptional business-focused individual to drive the long-term definition and implementation of CDOT’s data strategy, maximizing data integration and architecture, driving data acquisition, ensuring data security, and most importantly, evaluating and implementing how big data aids in the achievement of CDOT’s strategic objectives to improve safety and mobility on our transportation system.
Overview of the Position:
- With the rise in service-oriented architectures (SAP and GIS), the need for large-scale system integration, and heterogeneous data storage/exchange mechanisms (Traffic Management System – CTMS/XML feeds, Traffic Safety Data on FoxPro, GIS data and many other data systems) at CDOT, the Chief Data Officer will need to possess a combination of business knowledge, technical skills, and people skills to guide data strategy.
- This role is not simply about architecting data or designing databases, but rather overseeing these projects from a high level and working to methodologically define the data business strategy CDOT should pursue across its many divisions with a focus on two priorities:
- Defining and sharing actionable data for external stakeholders, partners and the public;
- Defining and sharing actionable data to improve internal operations, planning and implementation.
- As part of the Executive Management Team, this position is also a unique opportunity to transform the transportation department and its business models, as transportation moves into the use of data to maximize investment decisions, and the operations and safety of its system and to facilitate the rapidly changing transportation technology environment (vehicle to vehicle and vehicle to infrastructure data, etc.).
Responsibilities:
- Develop and manage CDOT’s data vision and strategy and create the roadmap to meet enterprise needs while working closely with the senior leaders across multiple divisions of CDOT including Division of Transportation Development, Transportation System Management and Operations, Office of Information Technology, Traffic Safety and others
- Develop a big data architecture that employs advanced quantitative methods, including data mining techniques, to create predictive analyses to achieve CDOT’s strategic objectives
- Define the data assets and functional capabilities for data and advanced analytics
- Champion global data management, governance, quality, and vendor relationships across the enterprise by establishing a data governance council that helps create data policies, standards, organization and enforcement of concepts as established
- Report on progress of enterprise data management governance, including metrics
The qualified applicant will possess, at a minimum:
- Bachelors, master’s degree preferred, in business administration, information technology, applied statistics, data analysis or similar field
- Minimum 10+ years data management and/or software engineering experience
The Exceptional Applicant will be an experienced Data Science Professional and will possess the proven ability or accomplishment in the following:
- Experience with enterprise metadata management and industry standards
- Proven experience leading strategic design, delivery and governance of major cross functional business efforts
- Experience operationalizing data governance, data stewardship, and data quality
- Working knowledge of multiple technology systems and data management tools
- Ability to understand complex issues and develop meaningful analysis and recommendations to line of business, and executive management
- Leadership and organization skills
- Strong writing abilities and experience with writing a variety of communication pieces
- Strong customer service skills
- Ability to work under tight deadlines and be adaptable to changing assignments
- Ability to partner with professionals, consultants, stakeholders and staff, with sensitivity to their needs and priorities
- Negotiation to find mutually acceptable solutions; building consensus through give and take
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