Data Strategist Role

Peregrine Advisors LLC; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

OPEN Data Jobs seeks a Data Strategist to translate organizational priorities into actionable data capabilities and roadmaps. You will balance governance, platforms, and analytics while coordinating across privacy, security, and program leaders to drive durable change.

You will stay close to implementation, refining strategy as delivery reveals new insights and constraints, and you will present evidence-based recommendations to senior leaders to secure funding and alignment.

Qualifications

• Working foundation in enterprise data, technology, analytics, digital, or AI strategy.
• Experience assessing capabilities, designing operating models, developing roadmaps, and evaluating investment choices.
• Fluency connecting architecture, data management, analytics, security, privacy, and organizational change.
• Strong writing and presentation skills to carry recommendations to executives.
• Credibility to align leaders with differing incentives, responsibilities, and risk perspectives.

Responsibilities

• Develop target-state strategies and operating models that connect governance, platforms, analytics, AI, workforce, and mission use.
• Design sequenced roadmaps with priorities, dependencies, investment choices, owners, and measures of progress.
• Create executive briefings and business cases that translate technical decisions into strategic directions.
• Lead cross-functional alignment among data, technology, privacy, security, legal, mission, and program leaders.

Skills

Data strategy

Stakeholder comms

Executive advisory

Evidence-based thinking

Roadmap design

Job description

Description

Data Strategists help organizations decide what their data should make possible and how to get there. They connect mission priorities, operating needs, policy, technology, governance, talent, and investment into a direction that leaders can fund and delivery teams can execute.

The strongest strategies begin with evidence. Data Strategists assess the current state, identify the decisions and services that better data could improve, design target capabilities and operating models, and sequence a roadmap that balances early progress with durable change.

They stay close enough to implementation to revise the strategy when delivery reveals something the planning did not.

What You'll Build

• Current-state assessments that expose capability gaps, duplicative investment, unmanaged risk, and unrealized data value.
• Target-state strategies and operating models that connect governance, platforms, analytics, artificial intelligence, workforce, and mission use.
• Sequenced roadmaps with priorities, dependencies, investment choices, owners, and measures of progress.
• Executive briefings and business cases that turn technical choices into clear strategic decisions.
• Cross-functional alignment among data, technology, privacy, security, legal, mission, and program leaders.

Who You Are

You are excited by direction that becomes action. You can move from a board-level question to the operating model, investment sequence, and first practical step without losing the reason the work matters. You test assumptions, write clearly, and make uncertainty visible. You are comfortable advising senior leaders, but you earn credibility by understanding the delivery realities beneath the strategy.

What You Bring

• A working foundation in enterprise data, technology, analytics, digital, or artificial intelligence strategy.
• Experience assessing capabilities, designing operating models, developing roadmaps, and evaluating investment choices.
• Enough technical and governance fluency to connect architecture, data management, analytics, security, privacy, and organizational change.
• The analytical discipline to ground recommendations in evidence and the writing and presentation skills to carry them to executives.
• The credibility to build alignment across leaders with different incentives, responsibilities, and risk perspectives.

About OPEN Data Jobs

OPEN Data Jobs connects AI, data, and software professionals with critical roles, primarily in the federal sector. Registering with ODJ can put your profile in view for multiple positions across several clients.

Requirements

Specific openings will state the expected leadership level, strategic domain, technical depth, consulting experience, work location, citizenship, work authorization, background, suitability, clearance, and mission knowledge.

What openings may require

Openings may focus on enterprise data strategy, artificial intelligence readiness, analytics transformation, cloud and platform direction, governance maturity, workforce capability, or the implementation of federal data policy. Some may sit close to a Chief Data Officer, Chief Information Officer, program executive, or mission leader.

Benefits

Compensation, benefits, work location, and employment terms are set for each specific opening and will be stated with that opening.