Empower America's Innovation Agency through data science and emerging technologies. At the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), we're seeking a technical expert to serve as a senior executive responsible for leading the agency data strategy and ensuring data is managed as a valuable USPTO asset. The Chief Data Officer (CDO) provides oversight and manages data strategically to enable evidence-building, data-driven activities, advanced analytics such as artificial intelligence (AI), drive business value, and ensure compliance with Federal laws and regulations.
Duties
- Data Strategy Development: Defining and executing a comprehensive USPTO-wide data strategy that aligns with the USPTO's goals and objectives, ensuring data is AI ready and managed to effectively drive business outcomes.
- Data Governance: Serving on the Agency-wide data governance board with representatives from across the USPTO; designing the Agency-wide operating model outlining how the USPTO organizes and manages its data. Establishing a logical grouping of data assets based on shared characteristics.
- Data Management: Designing and implementing the operating model to manage a data asset throughout its lifecycle to ensure quality and standard data for effective use and improved evidence-based and data-driven decision making. Implementing policies and practices that promote data integrity, security, and compliance with data governance and protection laws and other federal regulations.
- Data Catalog: Overseeing the implementation of an enterprise-wide data catalog that serves as an inventory of data assets with the USPTO. Ensuring that the data catalog promotes concepts such as searchability, traceability, labeling, ownership identification, and standardized metadata so that consumers can find, access, understand, and trust USPTO data assets.
- Enable Data Analytics: Leading data analytics initiatives to extract insights from data, supporting decision-making processes across the organization, or assist other business units in accomplishing their data analytics goals.
- Collaborating with Executives: Working closely with other executives, such as the Commissioners for Patents and Trademarks, Chief Financial Officer, Chief Artificial Intelligence Officer, Chief Information Security Officer, Performance Improvement Officer, and Chief Administrative Officer to manage the data lifecycle and identify opportunities for leveraging data to enhance business performance.
- Risk Management: Identifying and mitigating data-related risks, ensuring robust data security measures are in place to protect sensitive information. Partner with other executives when data governance, data management, or data assets may mitigate business operations risks.
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Qualifications
To meet the minimum qualification requirements for this position, you must show that you possess the Executive Core Qualifications (ECQ) and Professional Technical Qualifications (PTQs) related to this position within your resume - NOT TO EXCEED 2 PAGES. Resumes over the 2-page limit, will not be reviewed beyond page 2 or may be disqualified.
PTQs:
- Knowledge of and demonstrated experience with the principles, procedures, and tools of data governance and data management, such as data operating models, data glossaries, data dictionaries, and metadata standardization.
- Demonstrated experience overseeing an enterprise data catalog. This includes experience creating and scaling data inventorying and cataloging operations, leading enterprise data governance through implementing roles and responsibilities in a data catalog and promulgating data governance and data management policies and best practices to leverage data for maximum business value.
ECQs: Commitment to the Rule of Law and Principles of the American Founding; Driving Efficiency; Merit and Competence; Leading People; Achieving Results
Education
This job does not have an education qualification requirement. However, a preferred candidate would have a bachelor's degree or higher with focus on data science or analytics and 3+ years of proven skills related to data science and/or data analytics.
Conditions of Employment
Applications will only be accepted from United States Citizens and Nationals and your resume and question responses must demonstrate the job-related competencies. If selected, you will be required to pass a background investigation.
The full list of conditions, qualifications, and requirements for the written statement can be found on the USAJOBS posting.
The United States Patent and Trademark Office is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex (including sexual orientation), national origin, political affiliation, marital status, disability, genetic information, age, pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions, retaliation for engaging in protected activity, parental status, military service, or other non-merit factors.
