Director, Data & Analytics — Strategy, AI &Insights

rb; Boston (MA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 250,000; Full time

Job summary

The Federal Reserve Bank of Boston is seeking a Director of Data & Analytics to lead a high-performing team delivering self-service analytics, reliable data pipelines, and scalable data infrastructure.

Reporting to the CFO, this leader will set vision and architecture, build a multi-year roadmap, and collaborate across functions to translate business goals into actionable technical solutions. The position is primarily on-site with residency commutable to our Boston office.

Responsibilities

• Define the D&A vision aligned to Bank priorities; develop and maintain a multi-year roadmap across organizations, demonstrating benefits of using data to answer business questions quantitatively.
• Establish architectural standards, data quality principles, and fit-for-purpose technology choices.
• Set and govern reusable patterns for data pipelines, models, and visualizations.
• Incorporate responsible use of ML/NLP and emerging AI capabilities to improve decision support.
• Learn what stakeholders need; ask questions in order to learn enough about businesses to find how data can help answer questions/influence direction.
• Represent D&A to executive leadership with regular progress updates and outcome-focused narratives.
• Drive strategic planning meetings and engage stakeholders to clarify business requirements and translate them into deliverables with measurable impact.
• Present insights and recommendations to Management Council and Executive Committee as needed.
• Oversee delivery of solutions that encompass reliable data pipelines and curated datasets supporting descriptive, diagnostic, and predictive analyses.
• Ensure visualizations and decision support tools are accurate, performant, and designed for self-service.
• Establish SLAs, monitoring, and incident management for data products and platforms.
• Drive prioritization and sequencing across the portfolio to maximize stakeholder value.
• Work with and partner with data and technology peers across the Federal Reserve System.
• Partner with Data Strategy leaders to advance data stewardship, cataloging, and metadata practices.
• Champion policy compliance (security, privacy, records retention) and audit readiness-including structured end-of-life data transfer when solutions are decommissioned.
• Participate in and influence data-centric communities of practice and governance forums.
• Recruit, develop, and retain high-performing talent; set clear goals, operating procedures, and growth plans.
• Mentor staff on coding standards, statistical methods, product reviews, and best practices.
• Foster an inclusive, learning-oriented culture; manage vendor and third-party partnerships.
• Identify and mitigate operational risks across pipelines, models, and reporting (including single-point-of-failure risks).
• Maintain documentation, ve

Job description

The Federal Reserve Bank of Boston is seeking a Director of Data & Analytics to lead a high-performing team delivering self-service analytics, reliable data pipelines, and scalable data infrastructure.

Reporting to the CFO, this leader will set vision and architecture, build a multi-year roadmap, and collaborate across functions to translate business goals into actionable technical solutions. The position is primarily on-site with residency commutable to our Boston office.