[Remote] Manager, Data Analytics - Remote
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. ICF is seeking an experienced Data Analytics Manager to lead enterprise data, analytics, governance, and AI-enabled capabilities for a complex federal technology services program. The role involves supporting the design, implementation, and sustainment of data policies, governance processes, and analytics products to facilitate decision-making and performance management.
Responsibilities
- Lead enterprise data, analytics, governance, and AI-enabled capability delivery across a complex federal technology environment
- Develop and implement data governance policies, standards, operating procedures, approval workflows, and accountability models
- Establish and maintain data portfolio management practices, including prioritization, project intake, resource planning, risk tracking, milestone reporting, and performance measurement
- Lead the design and implementation of scalable data architecture, including data pipelines, data lakes, data warehouses, data marts, data catalogs, metadata repositories, and data lineage capabilities
- Define and enforce data quality standards, validation rules, data dictionaries, scorecards, issue management workflows, and continuous monitoring processes
- Guide development of analytics products, dashboards, reports, and visualization tools that provide operational insight and support executive decision-making
- Support advanced analytics capabilities, including statistical analysis, predictive modeling, trend analysis, root cause analysis, and AI-enabled analytics
- Ensure data sharing, API integration, and data access models are secure, governed, auditable, and aligned with privacy, cybersecurity, and compliance requirements
- Partner with cybersecurity, engineering, product, and program management teams to align data platforms, applications, integrations, and analytics capabilities with enterprise standards
- Establish reusable templates, frameworks, data models, ETL/ELT patterns, documentation repositories, and project management toolkits for data initiatives
- Support training, documentation, and knowledge transfer to improve user adoption and long-term sustainment of data tools, dashboards, and data management practices
- Monitor data quality, data usage, access patterns, and analytics adoption to identify risks, improvement opportunities, and operational blind spots
Skills
- U.S. Citizenship required due to federal contract requirements
- Must be able to obtain and maintain a Federal Public Trust clearance
- Bachelor's Degree
- 10+ years of experience leading enterprise data, analytics, data governance, data engineering, data architecture, or AI-enabled analytics initiatives
- One active data, cloud, analytics, AI/ML, or data governance certification, such as CDMP, DAMA, AWS/Azure/GCP data certification, Microsoft Power BI certification, Databricks, Snowflake, or equivalent
- 8+ years of experience designing, implementing, or managing enterprise data platforms, data pipelines, data warehouses, data lakes, data marts, data catalogs, or metadata management capabilities
- 5+ years of experience establishing data governance policies, standards, stewardship models, data quality frameworks, data dictionaries, lineage practices, or data management operating models
- 5+ years of experience delivering analytics products, dashboards, reporting capabilities, data visualizations, or executive decision-support tools
- 5+ years of experience working in federal, public sector, healthcare, life sciences, or other regulated environments with formal privacy, security, or compliance requirements
- 3+ years of experience supporting AI-enabled analytics, predictive modeling, machine learning workflows, anomaly detection, or advanced analytics use cases
- 3+ years of experience with data integration methods, including APIs, ETL/ELT pipelines, data orchestration, batch processing, real-time ingestion, or change data capture
- 3+ years of experience using data visualization, analytics, or business intelligence tools such as Power BI, Tableau, QuickSight, Looker, Palantir Foundry, or similar platforms
- 3+ years of experience with cloud data services on AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform, or similar cloud environments
- Experience supporting HHS, NIH, FDA, CMS, CDC, or other health-focused federal environments
- Experience building or supporting Chief Data Office functions, enterprise data governance programs, or data portfolio management organizations
- Experience with data privacy, data protection, data classification, DLP, encryption, RBAC, ABAC, just-in-time access, or audit logging requirements
- Experience aligning data capabilities with NIST, FISMA, HIPAA, FedRAMP, GDPR, or other security and compliance frameworks
- Experience developing data catalogs, metadata management approaches, lineage models, data quality scorecards, data issue repositories, and data stewardship workflows
- Experience implementing AI governance, responsible AI practices, model monitoring, explainability, human-in-the-loop review, or secure AI-enabled analytics
- Experience with SQL, Python, R, Databricks, Snowflake, Redshift, BigQuery, Synapse, Dataverse, or similar data platforms and tools
- Additional cloud, data, analytics, AI/ML, cybersecurity, Agile, ITIL, DAMA, CDMP, or project management certification
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