ESO Data Product Lead

Company

Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond

When you join the Federal Reserve—the nation’s central bank—you’ll play a key role, collaborating with a dynamic and diverse team of mission-driven professionals to strengthen and protect our economy and our communities.

Bring your passion and expertise, and we’ll provide the opportunities that will challenge you and propel your growth—along with a wide range of benefits and perks that support your health, wealth, and life. In addition to competitive compensation, we offer a comprehensive benefits package that includes tuition assistance, generous paid time off, top-notch health care benefits, child and family care leave, professional development opportunities, a 401(k) match, pension, and more. All brought together in a flexible work environment where you can truly find balance.

About the Opportunity

The ESO Data Product Lead is a critical role within the ERP Support Office (ESO) that leads a team of professionals that design, develop, and administer data management and analytic support structures and services that deliver value to a broad set of Federal Reserve System (FRS) stakeholders and customers.   The ERP Support Office is a system organization that is responsible for supporting the Workday and SAP Ariba ERP platform that brings together our Finance, Human Resources and Procurement Systems into one solution.

This role is accountable for all aspects of the ERP Data Product, including strategy and program management, data management operations (people, processes, technology) as well as reporting and analytics. 

This role is an integral member of the ERP Support Office team and will be responsible for developing a culture that promotes data and analytics as a critical enterprise asset.  This will include forging strategic partnerships throughout the organization to ensure alignment of data-centric requirements with available IT and business resources and to continually assess whether or not the services the teams provide are meeting the needs of our key stakeholders and customers.

What You Will Do:

• Sets priorities and manages the ERP Data Product, including strategy and program management, data management development, operations, and data and analytics.
• Drives and maintains cross functional collaboration within all areas of the ESO ERP Support Office, embodying a ‘one team’ approach to promote connectedness, alignment and optimization towards common objectives and outcomes.
• Forges strategic partnerships with key stakeholders to communicate and promote the Data Management Program vision, strategy, goals, and objectives to promote buy-in and alignment.
• Partners with lines of business, Reserve Banks, and other key stakeholders to develop a data and analytics strategy and roadmap that supports and aligns to business priorities.
• Anticipate opportunities for new Data and Analytical capabilities based on research and analysis of business strategies and roadmaps.
• Collaborate with Architecture to drive the Conceptual and Logical Data Architecture for the Analytic Target Platform
• Set expectations, coaches, develops, and holds teams accountable to provide a consistent service delivery in a matrixed environment and to continually enhance data analytics capabilities.
• Develops, implements, and continually improves processes, procedures, and standards to consistently deliver business value from data analytics.
• Oversees the development and implementation of a data governance framework that establishes standard data management policies, standards, processes, and compliance.
• Actively participates and/or serves on Federal Reserve System (FRS) data management governance bodies and advisory groups, ensuring ESO data related needs are well represented and maintain alignment with System direction.
• Supports organizational change management driving data management ongoing evolution and maturity.
• Redefines complex data ownership dynamics and manages relationships with leadership bodies across the System to promote and expand data sharing arrangements.
• Drives data environment simplification in alignment with System data architecture and strategy
• Drives democratized reporting and analytics capabilities, with business function and district groups embraced and enabled, but guided to best practices and standardized toolsets.
• Constructs the Data Management Program in such a manner that it is extensible to other data domains beyond Finance, HR, and Procurement
• Promotes collaboration across business and IT organizations.
• Responsible for executive communications
• Partners with the ERP Executive to develop budget and cost models.

Qualifications:

Has demonstrated:

• Ability to envision, build and mature a data management and analytics function and team
• Ability to facilitate organizational and behavioral change as it relates to data governance, data management and analytics.
• Knowledge of leveraging core, data, and analytical services in AWS cloud to create solutions that enable scalable and flexible customer solutions.
• Experience with Agile methodology team development processes, practices, and management.
• Proven success leading large complex Data Management, Warehouse and BI programs.
• Ability to create a data governance methodology and mature data governance processes.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, both orally and in writing. Strong decision-making skills
• Exceptional personnel skills in the creation and maintenance of lasting, productive partnerships within a diverse workforce

Leadership and Management Skills

• Leads by example, with unquestioned integrity and character.
• Has leadership and management experience, with an established record of achievement.
• Works effectively in a matrix-style management structure with a diverse group of senior officials and diffuse and complex lines of authority
• Cultivates a strong management team through selection, training, and retention, and motivates management and staff to work collaboratively.
• Focuses on ways to build the organization’s capabilities for the future.
• Acts decisively and is independent and objective in thinking and analysis.
• Encourages staff to identify and escalate issues, including recommendations for remediation.

Communication and Interpersonal Skills

• Quickly earns respect of and has the ability to work effectively and objectively with Function Support, line of business and Reserve Bank leadership.
• Recognizes the importance of keeping senior officials informed of potential issues and plan for addressing.
• Demonstrates mutual respect, embraces differences, and acts with authenticity.
• Is skilled in communicating effectively and persuasively, both orally and in writing
• Is able to speak plainly and simply about complex data governance, data management and analytics issues.

Information Management Expertise

• Directs all efforts of a team of data management and analytics professionals in all aspects of work following the DCAM (Data Management Capability Assessment Model) data Management and analytics framework.
• Builds and manages a team of highly capable and effective data management and analytics professionals and contributes to the overall data management maturity of the ERP platform managed by the ESO.
• Has overseen and implemented data governance and data management programs in decentralized, federated environments.

Strategic Analytical Skills

• Exhibits critical thinking and analytical skills, from a strategic perspective.
• Anticipates issues and problems, with a strategic focus on solutions.
• Demonstrates ability to delve into complex issues from a base of general knowledge.
• Generalizes from one situation to the next, seeing patterns and trends, while recognizing differences as well as similarities
• Uses a combination of insights from own experience, theory, industry practices and trends, or other knowledge to assess issues and select a course of action.

Other Requirements and Considerations:

• Candidates should review the Bank’s Employee Code of Conduct to ensure compliance with conflict of interest rules and personal investment restrictions.
• If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, please notify [email protected].
• Employees who work at and/or visit another Federal Reserve entity or outside business as part of their job duties are required to comply with any onsite safety and health protocols of those organizations (including, but not limited to, requirements to vaccinate or test, mask, social distance, etc.).
• Sponsorship is not available for this role. Selected candidate is subject to special background check procedures.
• The hiring range of the Proj/Prog Mgmt Tech – Sr Mgr is $125,900 – $157,400 annually.

• Salary offered will be based on the job responsibilities and the individual’s knowledge, skills, and experience as defined in the job qualifications.
• Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis. Interested candidates are strongly encouraged to apply by March 20, 2024.
• The individual selected for this role is expected to work a hybrid schedule and will be required to be onsite regularly in their FRB District location.

Full Time / Part Time

Full time

Regular / Temporary

Regular

Job Exempt (Yes / No)

Yes

Job Category

Supervisory/Management

Work Shift

First (United States of America)

The Federal Reserve Banks believe that diversity and inclusion among our employees is critical to our success as an organization, and we seek to recruit, develop and retain the most talented people from a diverse candidate pool. The Federal Reserve Banks are committed to equal employment opportunity for employees and job applicants in compliance with applicable law and to an environment where employees are valued for their differences.

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