Overview
Leads the design, governance, administration and continuous enhancement of the Authority's enterprise data ecosystem, ensuring secure management, integration, and accessibility of data to support decision-making, regulatory oversight, environmental stewardship, and international scientific collaboration.
Key Responsibilities
- Develop, maintain and update databases, data collection systems, data analysis tools and related strategies.
- Ensure the integrity, availability, reliability, security and optimal performance of the Authority’s DeepData database, legacy systems and associated data repositories.
- Manage and maintain the Authority’s technology and virtual infrastructure.
- Plan, configure, monitor, maintain and optimize virtual machines, virtual networks, storage resources and supporting infrastructure.
- Perform data lifecycle management.
- Establish and maintain procedures governing data acquisition, validation, classification, storage, processing, use, sharing, archiving, retention and disposal.
- Collaborate to identify and implement common data standards, exchange formats, metadata requirements, vocabularies, identifiers and protocols.
- Develop, maintain and enhance data-visualization dashboards, analytical tools and reporting interfaces.
- Comply with applicable information-security requirements, information-assurance policies, data-protection principles, international standards and recognized industry practices.
- Collaborate to develop and implement security, access-control, data-classification, data-sharing and information-governance policies, principles and practices.
- Maintain technical documentation relating to database architecture, virtual infrastructure, data models, data dictionaries, metadata, interoperability standards, system configurations, integration processes, backup procedures and operational workflows.
- Provide technical guidance, training and support to staff, contractors, scientists and other stakeholders.
Required Experience
Proven working experiences (at least 5 years) in database management, physical, virtual and network administration is required. Experience in dealing with large and complex databases in shared environments is required. Strong analytical skills with the ability to collect, organize, analyze, and disseminate significant amounts of information with attention to detail and accuracy is required. Experience dealing with oceanographic data management to include environment and geological data is required. Proven technical expertise in developing and implementing database strategies, database models, database design development, data mining (collecting) and segmentation techniques is required. Experience developing dashboards, reporting tools and business intelligence solutions is desired. Experience implementing FAIR Data Principles or comparable international data standards is desirable. Knowledge of geographic information systems is desired.
Qualifications
An advanced university degree (master’s degree or equivalent) in computer science, information systems, data management, mathematics, statistics or related field. A first-level university degree in combination with additional two (2) years of qualifying experience may be accepted in lieu of an advanced university degree.
