The Data and Applications Services Manager to lead the creation, deployment and maintenance of data-related services and applications. He/She will oversee design, implementation and optimization of application solutions related to data management; ensure availability integrity security of assets while encouraging collaboration across technical teams as well as stakeholders.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Manage a team of data engineers, application developers, and analysts in providing high-quality data services and applications.
• Develop training plans for the staff under its unit or department and ensure the execution of training plans.
• Utilise data design and management strategies including data modeling, data governance, data quality, and data lifecycle management, and enforce data standardization.
• Ensure the successful execution of software development life cycles from requirements gathering through requirements definition, design, development, testing, deployment and post launch support.
• Design and implement reliable data pipelines, ETL processes and integration solutions in order to facilitate the collection, processing, share/exchange, and storage of structured and unstructured data sets.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to identify data requirements, design data models and implement solutions that address business needs.
• Oversee deployment and management of applications such as databases, ERP, data warehouses and data-hubs with optimal performance, scalability and security characteristics.
• Evaluate and select suitable technologies, tools, and platforms for application development while taking scalability, security and long-term sustainability into consideration.
• Assure compliance and adoption of best practice with data protection and privacy regulations as well as adhere to established cybersecurity regulations and standards.
• Monitoring application systems relating to data, proactively detecting performance bottlenecks or data inconsistencies.
• Lead development of data analytics and reporting applications that support decision-making within government.
• Stay abreast of emerging data management tools, technologies, trends, and practices so as to recommend their adoption to increase government data capabilities.
• Monitor application performance and user feedback in order to identify areas for enhancement and optimization, set and enforce coding standards, security protocols and development methodologies.
• Prepare and present regular reports to the senior management on team performance, project status and key metrics.
• Perform any other duties as assigned by senior staff.