Chief Data Office, ADO-001 concentrates on the opportunities, threats, capabilities, and gaps related to managing FAA information as a strategic asset and potentially a liability.
Duties
The office leverages data and information for decision-making, engages industry, manages information for operational efficiency, and manages risk inherent in massive and fast changing data resources through effective governance. The Director has authority to make changes in structure, authority or responsibility to adjust roles and responsibilities to fit its business needs at the directorate level and below, and authority to enforce changes in FAA IT policy and procedures as directed by the CIO.
The Data Governance office, ADO-010s major function is the orchestration of people, processes, and technology to manage critical data assets. This is done by using roles, responsibilities, policies, and procedures to ensure the data is accurate, consistent, secure, and aligns with the agency’s mission. Data governance supports decision rights and accountability around the use of data to encourage desirable behaviors and nurture a corporate culture of managing data as an enterprise asset.
Enterprise Information Management (EIM) has the goal of transforming the FAA into an information-driven enterprise. The EIM initiative represented a strategic shift from an organization-centric approach to IT towards a common enterprise approach in order to enable the FAA workforce to easily and securely share common technology, resources, information, and capabilities across the agency. One major goal is to fully utilize the data assets both within and external to the FAA, the first key step is ensuring that there is a systematic way to locate the available data sources. Centralizing core data sources will require: catalog tools that enable ease of search and data collection, analytic tools to create information outputs, and virtualization tools that enable visualization and insight to the analytic outputs. Democratizing the cataloging efforts is key to ensuring that the custodians of data can document the key attributes of the data set.
Serves as project/program manager or team leader planning, coordinating, and conducting projects associated to the Data Cataloging and Data onboarding efforts.
Provides support to management and coordinates EIM Data On-boarding activities within the Data Governance and EIM Platform teams in support of FAA Data Strategy objectives. Researches and documents new or improved business and management practices/processes for programs or operations.
Assignments frequently require knowledge and experience working across functional and/or organizational lines. Typical assignments may include: providing guidance to less-experienced professionals; leading small project/program teams; designing and recommending solutions to complex problems; preparing and reviewing management reports; and developing and recommending improvements to systems and/or processes to improve operational efficiency.
Independently plans time. Identifies, plans, and organizes available resources to accomplish projects/programs/activities. Established policies/procedures provide guidance for most assignments, but allow considerable discretion for employee to select the most appropriate approach(es) or develop new approaches. Assignments regularly require interpretations of internal and external policies and extrapolations from precedents.
Resolves most problems and work issues without the assistance of a manager, project/program manager, team leader, or more experienced professional. Develops and recommends approaches to address current and anticipated problems and issues. Works with management and/or more experienced professionals to solve problems.
Contacts are internal and external. Often represents the major subdivision and LOB/SO as a principal point of contact to provide advice and guidance on the applications of policies and procedures. Formulates and recommends to senior management positions on major projects/ policies/issues.
