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Data Strategist Role

OpenDataJobs
Posted a month ago, valid for 12 days
Location

Washington, DC, US

Salary

Competitive

Contract type

Full Time

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  • Data Strategists assist organizations in determining the potential of their data and the pathways to achieve it.
  • They require a foundation in enterprise data, technology, analytics, or AI strategy, along with experience in assessing capabilities and designing operating models.
  • The role involves creating current-state assessments, target-state strategies, and sequenced roadmaps that align with organizational goals.
  • Compensation for these positions is determined by specific openings, which may vary based on leadership level and technical depth.
  • Candidates typically need to have several years of relevant experience to effectively advise senior leaders and drive strategic initiatives.

The work

Data Strategists help organizations decide what their data should make possible and how to get there. They connect mission priorities, operating needs, policy, technology, governance, talent, and investment into a direction that leaders can fund and delivery teams can execute.

The strongest strategies begin with evidence. Data Strategists assess the current state, identify the decisions and services that better data could improve, design target capabilities and operating models, and sequence a roadmap that balances early progress with durable change. They stay close enough to implementation to revise the strategy when delivery reveals something the planning did not.

What you'll build

路聽聽聽聽聽聽聽 Current-state assessments that expose capability gaps, duplicative investment, unmanaged risk, and unrealized data value.

路聽聽聽聽聽聽聽 Target-state strategies and operating models that connect governance, platforms, analytics, artificial intelligence, workforce, and mission use.

路聽聽聽聽聽聽聽 Sequenced roadmaps with priorities, dependencies, investment choices, owners, and measures of progress.

路聽聽聽聽聽聽聽 Executive briefings and business cases that turn technical choices into clear strategic decisions.

路聽聽聽聽聽聽聽 Cross-functional alignment among data, technology, privacy, security, legal, mission, and program leaders.

Who you are

You are excited by direction that becomes action. You can move from a board-level question to the operating model, investment sequence, and first practical step without losing the reason the work matters.

You test assumptions, write clearly, and make uncertainty visible. You are comfortable advising senior leaders, but you earn credibility by understanding the delivery realities beneath the strategy.

What you bring

路聽聽聽聽聽聽聽 A working foundation in enterprise data, technology, analytics, digital, or artificial intelligence strategy.

路聽聽聽聽聽聽聽 Experience assessing capabilities, designing operating models, developing roadmaps, and evaluating investment choices.

路聽聽聽聽聽聽聽 Enough technical and governance fluency to connect architecture, data management, analytics, security, privacy, and organizational change.

路聽聽聽聽聽聽聽 The analytical discipline to ground recommendations in evidence and the writing and presentation skills to carry them to executives.

路聽聽聽聽聽聽聽 The credibility to build alignment across leaders with different incentives, responsibilities, and risk perspectives.

About OPEN Data Jobs

OPEN Data Jobs connects AI, data, and software professionals with critical roles, primarily in the federal sector. Registering with ODJ can put your profile in view for multiple positions across several clients.

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What openings may require

Openings may focus on enterprise data strategy, artificial intelligence readiness, analytics transformation, cloud and platform direction, governance maturity, workforce capability, or the implementation of federal data policy. Some may sit close to a Chief Data Officer, Chief Information Officer, program executive, or mission leader.

Specific openings will state the expected leadership level, strategic domain, technical depth, consulting experience, work location, citizenship, work authorization, background, suitability, clearance, and mission knowledge.

Compensation, benefits, work location, and employment terms are set for each specific opening and will be stated with that opening




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