Director of Data Enablement and Architecture

Job Title: Director of Data Enablement and Architecture

Job Number: 2600026C

The Executive Office of Technology Services and Security (EOTSS)

The Executive Office of Technology Services and Security (EOTSS) is the lead enterprise technology organization for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Charged with driving the ongoing alignment of business and technology across the Commonwealths Executive Branch, EOTSS oversees and manages the enterprise technology digital infrastructure and services, as well as the Commonwealth Security Operations Center and an enterprise Standard Operating Environment that includes an information security and risk management framework for over 125 state agencies and over 43,000 state employees.

About this Role

ODIA is seeking a highly experienced and strategic Director of Data Enablement and Architecture to evolve and transform the Commonwealths data eco-system with practical data governance, robust data architecture, and modern data management practices necessary to deliver valued outcomes to our constituents.

Reporting Structure

Reporting directly to the Chief Data Officer, the Director of Data Enablement and Architecture will blend actionable enterprise data governance with advanced data architecture specifically focused on supporting agencies to ensure data is fit for purpose based on their use case, optimally ready for AI/ML initiatives.

Key Responsibilities

• Data Enablement and Data Sharing:

• Deploy and evolve a federated adaptive data governance model that is flexible and dynamic across the Commonwealths enterprise and ecosystem.

• Create and establish guidelines, policies, procedures, standards, tracking, and controls that manage data assets to ensure data accuracy, lineage, consistency, integrity, and security.

• Set goals and guiding principles, define data ownership and stewardship, orchestrate documentation, identify key governance processes, and recommend monitoring tools to ensure compliance and effectiveness.

• Establish clear inter-agency agreements and automated data sharing process to ensure that data is shared in a compliant, secure, and efficient manner.

• Broker and mediate agreements for high-value, high-complexity data sharing initiatives.

• Collaborate to define and operationalize enterprise-wide Commonwealths data master-data reference data and metadata standards, practices, and stewardship models.

• Data Architecture and Data Management:

• Develop architectural roadmaps that prioritize data foundational improvements based on the highest-value data use cases identified across the Commonwealth.

• Define and manage data standards and models, conceptual, logical, physical, that promote data reusability and quality across Secretariats, minimizing data preparation time for AI/ML projects supporting public policy.

• Design and implement data security, privacy, and access controls within the architecture to meet regulatory requirements, including HIPAA, FERPA, and MA-specific privacy mandates, ensuring sensitive constituent data is handled responsibly.

• Evolve and strengthen the Commonwealths data eco-system by developing overarching policies, standards, guidelines, and tools to optimize the ingest, storage, integration, transformation, and archiving to ensure data is available, reliable, secure, and meets business needs for information.

• AI Ready Data:

• Contribute to the AI-ready data program that defines a process for agencies to run an AI data readiness scorecard and inventory, align datasets to the AI technique and business decision, qualify them through validation, versioning, observability, and regression testing, and govern them with contextual policies and stewardship tied to the use case.

• Collaborate across ODIA, EOTSS, and agencies to help development of enterprise-grade AI enablers - AI-ready data, data catalogs, common metadata, MDM model governance, and tooling.

• Data Strategy Development and Evolution:

• Contribute to the data strategy by evolving the vision and the execution roadmap for actionable data enablement across the Commonwealth by defining a strong data architecture, data integration, and data governance foundation.

• Build a strategy with specific high-value actions linked to the shared focus between data management and data governance to accelerate the delivery of data enablement programs and support emerging technology requirements.

• Internal and Cross-Secretariat Collaboration:

• Collaborate in the Data Leadership Council with cross-secretariat data and business leaders to enable agencies to even adopt enterprise data platforms, align with enterprise data strategy, and consistent data governance practices, thus elevating the data maturity to meet business objectives.

• Collaborate with ODIA leaders in enterprise analytics, data product innovation, and advanced analytics to develop and execute cross-agency use cases that support strategic business opportunities and improve resident engagement.

• Collaborate with Director of Enterprise Analytics Architecture by designing how data is structured, stored, and flows within systems, the what and where to support Enterprise Analytics Architecture to successfully fulfill the why and who using that data across the entire Commonwealth to drive business outcomes, decisions, and insights.

About You

• You are an or have a Proven track record implementing federated adaptive use-case based governance model or equivalent, balancing centrally established consistency standards and flexible autonomous domain ownership.
• Decisive and self-directed leader who can translate governance to business outcomes and motivate cross-functional teams to deliver them.
• Proven experience designing enterprise-level information/data architectures and leading data modeling, MDM, or large-scale data integration programs.
• Cross-functional leader who bridges data management, AI, data engineering, and governance - able to align data architecture operational teams and policy stakeholders to deliver AI-ready data and AI-driven data quality capabilities.
• Strategic thinker who is comfortable contributing to a compelling vision and designing and evolving a measurable strategy to achieve that vision.
• Relationship-builder who is comfortable managing, communicating, coordinating with executive stakeholders, business managers, and technical experts.
• Innovator who can navigate disruptive technologies like artificial intelligence and harness them to improve government performance and the resident experience.

Preferred Knowledge, Skills & Qualifications

• Minimum of 10 years in Data Architecture and governance, at least three (3) in a leadership role, with significant demonstrated experience focusing on designing and building data management integration and governance programs.
• Strong expertise in data management, data governance, and data architecture principles and practices.
• Deep expertise in Data Warehouse and Data Lakehouse design, Dimensional Modeling, Star/Snowflake schemas, Medallion architecture, Delta Lake/Iceberg, and modern cloud data platforms (e.g., Snowflake, BigQuery, Azure Synapse).
• Proven experience in defining and implementing enterprise-wide Data Governance frameworks, including data cataloging, lineage tracking, and data quality tools (e.g., Alation, Collibra, Informatica Purview).
• Demonstrable experience with advanced architecture patterns like Data Mesh or Data Fabric.
• Expert proficiency in SQL and deep familiarity with NoSQL distributed systems (e.g., Spark, cloud-native services AWS, Azure, or GCP).
• Expert knowledge of data modeling techniques optimized for performance and consumption.
• Familiarity with AI/ML Data Architecture, including concepts like feature stores (e.g., Feast), MLOps, and model deployment patterns.
• Familiarity with ethical AI tools and frameworks for bias detection and model monitoring.
• Credible across both IT and business ability to translate and communicate technical concepts, plans, and procedures to both technical personnel and non-IT business users.

Education and Certifications

• A bachelors or masters degree in computer science, information technology, data management, business administration, or other related field, or equivalent work experience.

Minimum Entrance Requirements

• Applicants must have at least 7 years of full-time or equivalent part-time professional administrative supervisory or managerial experience in IT administration or IT management, of which at least 3 years must have been in a managerial capacity.

Comprehensive Benefits

When you embark on a career with the Commonwealth, you are offered an outstanding suite of employee benefits that add to the overall value of your compensation package. We take pride in providing a work experience that supports you, your loved ones, and your future.

Equal Opportunity Employer

The Commonwealth is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, disability, national origin, veteran status, or any other basis covered by appropriate law. Research suggests that qualified women, Black, Indigenous, and Persons of Color (BIPOC) may self-select out of opportunities if they dont meet 100% of the job requirements. We encourage individuals who believe they have the skills necessary to thrive to apply for this role.