DATA MANAGEMENT
Senior Data Specialist
Summary
Positions at this level are accountable for the development, enhancement, and maintenance of databases or data integrations of moderate complexity and risk/impact for assigned organizational areas. This position may be accountable for multiple databases and data management teams. Senior specialist positions perform highly complex data assignments involving multiple small, complex, platforms or a singular large platform. Employees are accountable for data security, validation, evaluation, and implementation. Senior Data Specialists interact with stakeholders or business partners, including vendor staff. Incumbents work on and solve highly complex problems where analysis requires in-depth evaluation of various factors. They provide highly complex technical support in relevant fields of discipline and may serve as project lead and/or provide technical direction to other project team members.
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
- In addition to those identified in the previous levels within this career path: Comprehensive working knowledge of and the ability to demonstrate successful use of programming languages, computer equipment, and associated software/databases in the performance of duties.
- Comprehensive working knowledge of and the ability to demonstrate understanding of all assigned areas of data management, as well as the laws, principles, and practices as they are related to implementation within the agency.
- Comprehensive working knowledge of and the ability to demonstrate understanding of the agency's policies, procedures, rules, and regulations in the performance of duties.
- Comprehensive working knowledge of and the ability to demonstrate understanding and successful use of the principles and practices of project management techniques in the performance of duties.
- Possess and demonstrate successful communication skills in English via all modes of communication.
- Possess and demonstrate successful management and prioritization of work within predetermined deadlines and stressful/adverse situations.
- Possess and demonstrate the ability to successfully work as a team member and positively interact with a variety of people, as well as work hours as assigned.
- Ability to demonstrate successful performance in the training and mentoring of junior staff.
- Ability to demonstrate successful performance in the research, gathering, correlating, and analyzing of facts to develop reports, charts, recommendations, and/or solutions in the performance of duties.
- Ability to demonstrate successful performance and adherence to the rules of conduct for Patrol employees in accordance with General Order 26-02, as well as all other applicable agency policy and procedures.
- Ability to demonstrate successful performance and adherence to policy and procedure in the care and maintenance of restricted and confidential information in the performance of duties.
- Ability to work with material that may be of a sexual nature relating to criminal activity (e.g., written material, photographs, and/or verbal language, etc.)
Minimum Requirements
The following represents the minimum qualifications used to accept applicants, provided that equivalent substitution will be permitted in case of deficiencies in either experience or education.):
- Bachelor’s degree from an accredited institution and seven years of information technology experience with emphasis in data management or data integration.
- Must be a United States Citizen, or a legal resident of a country participating in the Visa Waiver Program (VWP).
Necessary Special Requirements
- Documented successful completion of at least 26 hours of professional skill development and leadership training each calendar year.
- working hours are subject to change at the discretion of the commanding authority.