DATA SERVICES LEAD

JOB ANNOUNCEMENT

Data Service Lead

DEPARTMENT OF INNOVATION AND TECHNOLOGY

(Delivery)

Number of Positions: 1

(Additional vacancies possible pending budget approval)

Starting Salary: $133,836

Applications for this position will be accepted until 11:59 pm CDT on 2/27/2026

Under direction, this is a managerial-level classification. The class fosters value creation by means of the organization's data assets and external data ecosystem and performs related duties as required.

This class is assigned to the Leadership Technology Job Family, which consists of positions responsible for overseeing the identification, prioritization, and delivery of work activities, coaching and developing employees, providing thought leadership to business partners, and shaping and executing the technology vision and strategy to maximize business value.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES

* Develops, manages, allocates, and governs the annual budget for the office of the Data Services Team

* Organizes and leads a data and analytics center of excellence, and constantly improves the organization's capacity to develop insights with advanced analytics

* Defines members' responsibilities and accountabilities for both

* Defines job roles, recruits candidates, and manages (directly or indirectly) a team of data and analytics governance leaders and senior information management professionals in different regions or business units across a complex, diverse enterprise

* Leads the development, publishing, and maintenance of the organization's information architecture, as well as a roadmap for its future development, ensuring that it matches and supports business needs

* Aligns data policy and administration with relevant regulatory, legal, and ethical mandates (e.g., creating value through data exploitation, envisioning data-enabled strategies, enabling all forms of business outcomes through analytics, establishing data and analytics governance, specifying enterprise information policy, and establishing a data-driven culture)

* Takes authority, responsibility, and accountability for exploiting the value of enterprise information assets, and of the analytics used to render insights for decision making, automated decisions, and augmentation of human performance

* Develops methods to ensure consistent application and use of analytics

* Institutes an enterprise operating model that is consistent with the capabilities and competencies required to execute the strategy

* Oversees the development and deployment of the enterprise's data and analytics platform for digital business

* Leads research, strategy creation, and development of new data products or services to expand markets, monetize data (directly and indirectly), and grow company revenue

* Expands the organization's research and analytics offerings, especially in emerging analytical approaches, skills, and technologies, focusing them on digital business innovation

* Fosters the creation of a data-driven culture, related competencies, and data literacy across the enterprise - leads these transformation efforts

* Identifies new kinds, types, and sources of data to enable business innovation throughout the organization

* Creates and oversees a centralized service for sourcing external data to ensure quality, traceability, timeliness, usability, and cost-effectiveness

* Defines processes for the effective, integrated introduction of new data

* Creates and expands open data offerings to empower citizens, and to enable better government and commercial services

* Leads regulatory and compliance programs related to data and analytics assets

* Oversees the integration and staging of data, and the development and maintenance of the data lakes, data warehouse, and data marts, for use by analysts throughout the organization

Additional duties may be required for this position

Location: 2 N LaSalle

Days: Monday - Friday

Hours: 8:00 - 4:00

THIS POSITION IS NOT IN CAREER SERVICE

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

* Nine (9) years of work experience in business management, legal, financial, information or IT management or leading cross-functional teams and enterprise-wide programs, of which two (2) years are in a management/supervisory role related to the responsibilities of the position, OR

* Graduation from an accredited college with an Associate's degree in Business Administration, Computer Science, Data Science, Information Science or a directly related field, plus seven (7) years of work experience in business management, legal, financial, information or IT management or leading cross-functional teams and enterprise wide programs, of which two (2) years are in a management/supervisory role related to the responsibilities of the position, OR

* Graduation from an accredited college or university with a Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Computer Science, Data Science, Information Science or a directly related field, plus five (5) years of work experience in business management, legal, financial, information or IT management or leading cross-functional teams and enterprise wide programs, of which two (2) years are in a management/supervisory role related to the responsibilities of the position, OR

* Graduation from an accredited college or university with a Master's degree or higher in Business Administration, Computer Science, Data Science, Information Science or a directly related field, plus four (4) years of work experience in business management, legal, financial, information or IT management or leading cross-functional teams and enterprise wide programs, of which two (2) years are in a management/supervisory role related to the responsibilities of the position

* Experience in integrating complex, cross-corporate processes and information strategies, and/or designing strategic metrics and scorecards

Educational & Employment Verification:

Please be advised that if you are selected to be hired, you must provide, upon request, adequate information regarding your education and employment history as it relates to the qualifications of the position for which you are applying. If you received your degree internationally, all international transcripts/diplomas must be accompanied by a Foreign Credential Evaluation. If the City of Chicago cannot verify this information, any offer extended to you will be withdrawn and you will not be hired.

SELECTION REQUIREMENTS

This position requires applicants to complete an interview. The interviewed candidate(s) possessing the qualifications best suited to fulfill the responsibilities of the position will be selected.

Desirable Experience:

* Strategy and Management

For Information on our employees' benefits, please visit our benefits website at:

https://www.chicago.gov/city/en/depts/fin/benefits-office.html

For Information on our salary and title structure, visit our classifications website at:

https://www.chicago.gov/content/dam/city/depts/dhr/supp_info/JobClassification/2025_Classification_and_Pay_Plan.pdf

APPLICATION EVALUATION: Initial evaluation will be based on information provided on the application and the documents submitted. Department of Human Resources staff will review applications after the final posting date. Staff will follow any and all required Employment/Hiring Plan provisions, federal, state, and local laws, and Collective Bargaining Agreements when applicable. Staff will apply hiring preferences as required by the municipal code. Placement on an eligibility list is not an offer or guarantee of an interview or employment with the City of Chicago.

COMMITMENT TO DIVERSITY: To further our commitment to hiring applicants with diverse experience, the City of Chicago has adopted the following ordinances: 2-74-020 and 2-74-075. The ordinances provide a preference to applicants who meet minimum qualifications and who are veterans of the Armed Forces, and/or residents of Socio-Economically Disadvantaged Areas (SEDA), and/or Chicago Public School (CPS) high school graduates, to be referred to departments for consideration. These hiring preferences do not apply to bidders, as Collective Bargaining Agreements define the hiring process for bidders. For positions covered by a collective bargaining agreement, bidders will be considered before external candidates. To learn more about our hiring practices, click here.

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The City of Chicago is an Equal Employment Opportunity, Military Friendly, and Fair Chance Employer.

City of Chicago

Brandon Johnson, Mayor