Head of Data Platform & Analytics

State of Oklahoma; Oklahoma; Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

The State of Oklahoma seeks a Director of Data within the 090 Office of Management and Enterprise Services. This role leads a small team responsible for the enterprise data platform, coordinating production database operations, data engineering, and analytics services across agencies.

As a senior leader, you will drive multi-year modernization, cloud migration, and governance initiatives while partnering with agency leadership to deliver measurable value from data assets for residents.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in a related field.
• 10+ years in database administration, data engineering, or analytics.
• 5+ years leading technical teams with accountability for results.
• Experience operating enterprise databases at scale in production.
• Cloud data services experience (GCP/Azure preferred) and hybrid environments.
• Knowledge of data security, privacy, and regulatory requirements.

Responsibilities

• Own day-to-day operation, availability, performance, and capacity of the state data platform.
• Establish and report on SLAs for availability, RTO, RPO, and query performance.
• Lead backup, recovery, patching, upgrade, and DR testing.
• Partner with Service Operations for observability and incident management.
• Drive automation of routine database administration tasks.
• Develop multi-year roadmap for cloud migration and modern data integration.
• Stand up and manage a data governance and analytics platform for agencies.
• Engage with agency CIOs and data stewards to translate missions into data solutions.

Skills

Leadership experience

Database administration

Data engineering

Analytics & BI

Cloud data services

Security & compliance

Background clearance CJIS

Education

Bachelor's in Computer Science / Information Systems / Data Science or related field

Tools

GCP

Azure

Oracle

SQL Server

PostgreSQL

Job description

The State of Oklahoma seeks a Director of Data within the 090 Office of Management and Enterprise Services. This role leads a small team responsible for the enterprise data platform, coordinating production database operations, data engineering, and analytics services across agencies.

As a senior leader, you will drive multi-year modernization, cloud migration, and governance initiatives while partnering with agency leadership to deliver measurable value from data assets for residents.