Data Scientist (Data Architect)

Duties

Develops the Enterprise Planning and Management (EPM) data governance in close collaboration with the Financial Services Directorate (FSD) staff, EPM stakeholders and contractors. Provides expertise in detecting, diagnosing, forecasting, and prescribing solutions to business related data quality and accessibility issues. Oversees the governance implementation roadmap to incrementally deploy the data management solution within the future EPM tool.

Applies the change management process to the EPM data architecture within the overall EPM change management process. Works with colleagues and contractors to prioritize changes following the change management process. Assesses impact of necessary change against existing data architecture, and plans and implements the accepted change. Ensures that procedures are properly adhered to as per the EPM change management and communication plan Ensures compliance with the EPM Data Governance for the EPM data architecture including metadata specifications and business rules stored in the data catalog and software configuration repositories.

Identifies, adapts, and manages changes to data analysis tools in response to evolving user needs. Leads and/or collaborates with Library professionals and contractors in solving complex EPM and FSD related data management challenges, including data interface, storage, modeling, backup, recovery, warehousing, mining, disposal, and data standardization. Leads and/or collaborates with business and technical subject matter experts in the planning, development, implementation, and administration of solutions for the acquisition, storage, and retrieval of EPM and FSD related data.

Analyses support the EPM program and other FSD priorities, focusing on challenges in agency wide budgeting, planning, organizational performance management, risk management, and financial management.

Assists the development of technical reports and visual presentations from selected EPM data and other data assets. Organize and analyze planning, operational, financial, and available program data sources to identify patterns, derive insights, and extract lessons learned. Independently analyzes data, and is able to apply and explain statistical and mathematical principles. Uses methods of exploratory data analysis, selecting appropriate models and identifying when data is insufficient to reach conclusions. Conducts observational analyses using tools to explore/group data, test hypotheses, predict outcomes, and produce insights for decision making. Works with large datasets that include structured, loosely structured, and unstructured data. Independently synthesizes findings and turns them into meaningful insights.

Collaborates with the appropriate Library staff to retrieve, transform as needed, and analyze data to create tabular, narrative, graphical and interactive reporting for the appropriate stakeholders. Attends frequent sessions with Library staff to coordinate activities for core data analytics products and services, as well as special projects.

Develops approaches and data structures to track data artifacts produced by current processes, operating procedures, instructions, and deliverables. Proposes improvements to better represent selected business processes by the data that it produces, including any new or updated process and data in the EPM program.

Supports FSD and Library management toward achieving a data-driven future state at the Library. Provides data engineering expertise to generate and capture a complete picture in data supporting effective storytelling. Supports the analysis of the captured data into insights to improve operations, advance the CFO’s and the Librarian’s interest, and create a robust data culture in FSD and across the Library.

Requirements

Conditions of Employment

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