Description

Our purpose: "Helping every Washington resident live, work, drive, and thrive."
Our values: Respect, Trust, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

At Department of Licensing (DOL) we work hard to create a culture where employees feel valued and respected. Employees are trusted and encouraged to be a part of process improvements that impact their work, create value for our customers and help build trust in our government.

The Director’s Office of The Department of Licensing is a team whose work ultimately makes a positive impact on public safety. Working in a mostly self-managed role, you will serve as the face of state government, as we serve nearly every Washingtonian, providing almost 6 million driver licenses and identification cards, registering over 7 million vehicles and vessels, and licensing over a quarter million professionals and businesses. We also partner with law enforcement, and many agencies and stakeholders who impact public safety.

Duties

As a Data Steward (MA4) you will play a key role in researching, analyzing, coordinating data governance decisions, and helping create best practices and standards. Your ability to effectively communicate and influence people around you based on your data driven decisions will be key in this position. Working as a team, you will consider complex agency-wide management problems and support the entire team and their domains by learning a diverse range of areas. This role will also allow you to be a key advocate for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) as they relate to data management and accessibility. Through a DEI lens, you will develop DOL’s understanding and operational awareness of DEI opportunities related to your domain or expertise.

Some of what you will be doing:

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  Analyze the organization of data within your business process or unit including preparing data inventories, conducting workshops, and creating materials for agency staff.
• Utilize agency experts to ensure proper categorization, storage, and classification of data to analyze and update existing repositories with kinds/metadata changes and ensure Data Governance Committee standards are being met.
• Work within the team to analyze and adjust agency metadata and retention schedules to match business needs.
• Research, analyze, and coordinate data governance decisions, standards, and best practices with agency business processes and the supporting applications and present recommendation to agency management.
• Coach agency personnel to complete data requests while using analysis of current data management practices to provide advice and promote efficient practices that align with agency goals and healthy data lifecycles.
• Coordinate and advise IS/Architecture staff conducting technical reviews for projects affecting data in your domain.
• Analyze and present information related to the effectiveness of agency policies to agency officers and committees.

Qualifications

What you will bring to the role:

• Eight (8) years of combined and relevant education and experience in a privacy or analytical role that included review of laws, policies, and processes to develop recommendations and implement changes that impact various business functions or data management needs.

What will help set you apart:

• Demonstrate strong analytical skills working with structured datasets in a variety of formats and tools commonly used in DOL, including two or more of the following: Excel pivot tables, SQL services, Salesforce Einstein, Tableau.
• Master’s or higher degree in a related field (law, library science, information management, computer science, business, public administration).
• Four (4) years’ experience working in a team setting in DOL or a related agency of the State of Washington.
• Three (3) years’ combined education and work experience in a library or information management discipline.
• Significant professional understanding of Financial Transactions and/or Location or Geospacial data domains prevalent in DOL. Also, any knowledge in other data domain areas such as:
  • Identity and Identification
  • Customer relationship
  • Vehicle licensing
  • Driver licensing
  • Professional licensing

Additional Requirements of Employment:

• Per Governor Inslee’s Directive 22-13.1, state employees must be fully vaccinated effective November 4, 2022. Providing proof of being fully vaccinated is a condition of employment and your vaccine status will be verified prior to starting work. Being fully vaccinated means two weeks after you have received the second dose in a two-dose series of a COVID-19 vaccine or a single-dose COVID-19 vaccine authorized for emergency use, licensed, or otherwise authorized or approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration or listed for emergency use or otherwise approved by the World Health Organization. Please reach out to the HR Office at 360-902-4000 if you need information on medical or religious accommodation.
• Prior to a new hire, a background check including criminal record history will be conducted. Information from the background check will not necessarily preclude employment but will be considered in determining the applicant’s suitability and competence to perform in the position.

Supplemental Information

How to Apply:
Select the Apply button at the top of this job announcement. Please include three (3) professional references. Using the "add attachments' option please attach your cover letter. Applications without these items, with blank fields, or supplemental question responses with comments such as "see attachments" will be considered incomplete and may make you ineligible.

You are welcome to include the name and pronoun you would like to be referred to in your materials and we will honor this as you interact with our award-winning diverse and inclusive organization.

A paycheck is just part of a total compensation package. We offer some of the nation’s best benefits , which include:

• Medical, dental and vision insurance
• Life, accidental death, and dismemberment insurance
• Long-term disability insurance
• Retirement
• Social security
• Vacation, leave and holidays
• Flexible spending account
• Dependent care assistance
• Other insurance
• Flexible schedule
• Deferred compensation
• Special employee programs

We value diverse perspectives and life experiences.
We employ and serve people of all backgrounds including people of color, immigrants, refugees, women, LGBTQ, people with disabilities, and veterans. We value the unique traits and attributes that each employee brings to the job. Through the diverse perspectives of an inclusive workforce, we will create a more respectful, productive, and unified team to better serve the public of Washington.