Director of Data Enablement and Architecture

Commonwealth of Massachusetts • Boston, MA

1d • Hybrid

About The Position

The Executive Office of Technology Services and Security (EOTSS) is the lead enterprise technology organization for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Charged with driving the ongoing alignment of business and technology across the Commonwealth’s Executive Branch, EOTSS oversees and manages the enterprise technology, digital infrastructure and services, as well as the Commonwealth Security Operations Center and an enterprise Standard Operating Environment that includes an information security and risk management framework for over 125 state agencies and over 43,000 state employees. We directly serve our constituents by providing digital services and tools that enable taxpayers, drivers, businesses, visitors, families and other citizens to do business with the Commonwealth in a way that makes every interaction with government easier, faster, and more secure.
The Office of Data Innovation and Analytics (ODIA), a division of EOTSS, is the central data office for the Commonwealth and operates under the leadership of the Chief Data Officer. The ODIA establishes data procedures and policies, streamlines data systems, facilitates data sharing among state agencies and the public, and drives innovation in enterprise-wide data management and analytics.
Our Mission: We provide technology leadership across the Commonwealth to enhance the quality of public service and foster positive community outcomes.
About this role
ODIA is seeking a highly experienced and strategic Director of Data Enablement and Architecture to evolve and transform the Commonwealth’s data eco-system with practical data governance, robust data architecture and modern data management practices necessary to deliver valued outcomes to our constituents. Reporting directly to the Chief Data Officer, the Director of Data Enablement and Architecture will blend actionable enterprise data governance with advanced data architecture, specifically focused on supporting agencies to ensure data is fit for purpose based on their use case, optimally ready for AI/ML initiatives. The data leader will empower the secretariats/agencies to innovate and iteratively generate business value by crafting pragmatic strategies that help bring “governance to life” by mitigating risks, ensuring security and compliance, and enabling the usefulness of Commonwealth data. In this role you will collaborate with a cross-functional team of data, engineering, architecture, legal, product management, risk management, IT operations, security and business professionals to develop and maintain a sound, effective enterprise data enablement and policy framework while building capacity for innovation in government.
The primary work location for this role will be One Ashburton Place, Boston, Massachusetts 02108. The work schedule for this position is Monday through Friday, 9:00AM – 5:00PM EST. This position is expected to follow a hybrid model of reporting to work that combines in-office workdays and work from home days as needed.
All offers of employment into this position are conditional and subject to passing: a Massachusetts Criminal Background Check (CORI); a security clearance (fingerprinting) consistent with IRS and/or public safety requirements; and security training.

Requirements

• Proven track record implementing federated, adaptive, use-case based governance model or equivalent, balancing centrally established consistency standards and flexible, autonomous domain ownership.
• Decisive and self-directed leader who can translate governance to business outcomes and motivate cross-functional teams to deliver them.
• Proven experience designing enterprise-level information/data architectures and leading data modeling, MDM or large-scale data integration programs.
• Cross functional leader who bridges data management, AI data engineering and governance — able to align data architecture, operational teams and policy stakeholders to deliver AI-ready data and AI-driven data quality capabilities.
• Strategic thinker who is comfortable contributing to a compelling vision and designing and evolving a measurable strategy to achieve that vision.
• Relationship-builder who is comfortable managing, communicating, coordinating with executive stakeholders, business managers, and technical experts.
• Innovator who can navigate disruptive technologies like artificial intelligence and harness them to improve government performance and the resident experience.
• Applicants must have at least (A) seven (7) years of full-time or, equivalent part-time, professional, administrative, supervisory, or managerial experience in IT administration or IT management, of which (B) at least three (3) years must have been in a managerial capacity.

Nice To Haves

• Minimum of 10+ years in Data Architecture and governance, at least three (3) in a leadership role with significant, demonstrated experience focusing on designing and building data management, integration and governance programs.
• Strong expertise in data management, data governance, and data architecture principles and practices.
• Deep expertise in Data Warehouse and Data Lakehouse design (Dimensional Modeling, Star/Snowflake schemas, Medallion architecture, Delta Lake/Iceberg) and modern cloud data platforms (e.g., Snowflake, BigQuery, Azure Synapse).
• Proven experience in defining and implementing enterprise-wide Data Governance frameworks, including data cataloging, lineage tracking, and data quality tools (e.g., Alation, Collibra, Informatica, Purview).
• Demonstrable experience with advanced architecture patterns like Data Mesh or Data Fabric.
• Expert proficiency in SQL and deep familiarity with NoSQL, distributed systems (e.g., Spark), and cloud-native services (AWS, Azure, or GCP).
• Expert knowledge of data modeling techniques optimized for performance and consumption.
• Familiarity with AI/ML Data Architecture, including concepts like feature stores (e.g., Feast), MLOps, and model deployment patterns.
• Familiarity with ethical AI tools and frameworks for bias detection and model monitoring.
• Credible across both IT and business; ability to translate and communicate technical concepts, plans, and procedures to both technical personnel and non-IT business users.
• A bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science, information technology, data management, business administration, or other related field, or equivalent work experience.

Responsibilities

• Deploy and evolve a federated, adaptive data governance model that is flexible and dynamic across the Commonwealth’s enterprise and ecosystem that encourages innovation at the center and the secretariats/agencies, with distributed, formal and informal decision rights, connected to value, active and sensitive to opportunity and risk.
• Create and establish guidelines, policies, procedures, standards, tracking and controls that manage data assets to ensure data accuracy, lineage, consistency, integrity, and security through federated, adaptive governance models to enable effective decision-making and strategic insights.
• Set goals and guiding principles, define data ownership and stewardship, orchestrate documentation, identify key governance processes, and recommend monitoring tools to ensure compliance and effectiveness.
• Establish clear inter-agency agreements and automated data sharing process to ensure that data is shared in a compliant, secure, and efficient manner. Broker and mediate agreements for high value, high complexity data sharing initiatives.
• Collaborate to define and operationalize enterprise-wide Commonwealth’s data, master-data, reference data and metadata standards practices and stewardship models.
• Develop architectural roadmaps that prioritize data foundational improvements based on the highest-value data use cases identified across the Commonwealth.
• Define and manage data standards and models (conceptual, logical, physical) that promote data reusability and quality across Secretariats, minimizing data preparation time for AI/ML projects supporting public policy.
• Design and implement data security, privacy, and access controls within the architecture to meet regulatory requirements, including HIPAA, FERPA, and MA-specific privacy mandates, ensuring sensitive constituent data is handled responsibly.
• Evolve and strengthen the Commonwealth's data eco-system by developing overarching policies, standards, guidelines and tools to optimize the ingest, storage, integration, transformation and archiving to ensure data is available, reliable, secure, and meets business needs for information.
• In collaboration with EOTSS’s risk and law offices, institute data retention, data classification, and data management best practices and standards by influencing partner agencies during implementation of their roadmap initiatives.
• Contribute to the AI-ready data program that defines a process for agencies to run an AI data readiness scorecard and inventory, align datasets to the AI technique and business decision; qualify them through validation, versioning, observability and regression testing; and govern them with contextual policies and stewardship tied to the use case.
• Collaborate across ODIA, EOTSS and agencies to help development of enterprise-grade AI enablers – AI-ready data, data catalogs, common metadata, MDM, model governance and tooling.
• Contribute to the data strategy by evolving the vision and the execution roadmap for actionable data enablement across the Commonwealth by defining a strong data architecture, data integration and data governance foundation
• Build a strategy with specific high-value actions linked to the shared focus between data management and data governance to accelerate the delivery of data enablement programs and support emerging technology requirements.
• Collaborate in the Data Leadership Council with cross-secretariat data and business leaders to enable agencies to evenly adopt enterprise data platforms, align with enterprise data strategy and consistent data governance practices thus elevating the data maturity to meet business objectives.
• Collaborate with ODIA leaders in enterprise analytics, data product innovation and advanced analytics to develop and execute cross-agency use cases that support strategic business opportunities and improve resident engagement.
• Collaborate with Director of Enterprise Analytics Architecture by designing how data is structured, stored, and flows within systems (the "what" and "where") to support Enterprise Analytics Architecture to successfully fulfill the "why" and "who" using that data across the entire commonwealth to drive business outcomes, decisions, and insights.
• Collaborate with the offices of the Chief Information Security Officer and Chief Privacy Officer to align the data enablement framework with enterprise-wide data security and privacy requirements, standards, policies, best practices and tracking.
• Collaborate with the CTO Office, Chief Operations Office, and Enterprise Analytics Lead for fit-for-purpose data management, DataOps and observability tools to provide business with production grade data for timely, high-quality decisions and service delivery.
• Collaborate with the AI team in the investigation, preparation, adoption, observability and exploitation of artificial intelligence and other disruptive technologies, focusing on accelerating digital business innovation and transformation.
• Collaborate with all stakeholders that ODIA serves – governor’s office, cabinet/secretary, secretariats/agencies and data offices to design a resilient, secure, and high-quality data blueprint that empowers an inter-connected government to exploit data and analytics capabilities to maximize the value derived from the state’s data assets, directly impacting public services and the lives of Massachusetts residents.
• Lead and inspire a team of data architects, data quality analysts and data sharing specialists to create scalable, reusable secure and efficient data technology/governance artifacts and standards to enable agencies to deliver on their business objectives.
• Champion the professional growth of team members through coaching, mentoring, and structured development plans, ensuring the team’s skills evolve with business needs.

Benefits

• Comprehensive Benefits
• When you embark on a career with the Commonwealth, you are offered an outstanding suite of employee benefits that add to the overall value of your compensation package. We take pride in providing a work experience that supports you, your loved ones, and your future.
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What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Director