Data Acquisition Manager

Applicants must be permanent in the title Computer Systems Manager or have a permanent comparable civil service title to apply.

NYCERS IT Division seeks a Data Manager to support its Legacy Replacement Project (LRP) effort, a mission critical transformative project that will migrate NYCERS core line-of business mainframe applications to modem technologies. The successful candidate will possess strong technical skills in the areas of data acquisition, data delivery, profiling, database management, migration and data integration, and be exceptionally "hands on" to effectively perform work independently as well as part of a team with both business and technical team members. In this capacity, the Data Manager will:

- Develop strategy and build processes to maintain data integrity during and post its migration from NYCERS legacy system to the targeted LRP system(s).
- Design, develop and support automated data conversion validation process.
- Design and build relational databases, often using non-relational sources as a starting point (e.g., VSAM), to support NYCERS data integrity and quality initiatives
- Develop strategies for data acquisitions from vendor’s data sources distributed on various platforms.
- Design and build NYCERS Data Warehouse
- Fully, clearly and comprehensively document all key work and activities
- Manage in a "hands on" fashion, as directed by NYCERS Data Architect, the data quality program and team to identify and remediate data quality and integrity prior/post migration
- Execute specific data quality program tasks and technical activities (i.e., ability to successfully execute many technical tasks without delegating them to team members)
- Develop and create organization wide data policies, standards, and processes and take responsibility for oversight and strategy execution of and data quality framework
- Provide comprehensive support and input to the NYCERS Data Governance process
- Work with data SME's and technical leads in addressing high priority enterprise data problems, recommend solutions and use of industry standards, establish data quality rules and definitions consistent with department and organizations strategies
- Assist with the development of data quality metrics that identify gaps and ensure compliance with standards across the organization
- Work with business users and IT partners to remediate identified gaps using both manual and automated solutions
- Recommends processes to proactively monitor quality of data

COMPUTER SYSTEMS MANAGER - 10050