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Data & GIS Services Senior Manager

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Data & GIS Services Senior Manager

Salary

$105,456.00 - $125,219.00 Annually

Location

Boise City Hall, ID

Job Type

Full Time Regular

Job Number

23 -07179

Department

Information Technology

Division

Data Services

Opening Date

06/16/2025

Closing Date

7/7/2025 12:00 PM Mountain

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Summary Statement

Shape the Future of Data in Boise

Lead the City’s data, integration, and geospatial strategies as the technical authority behind Boise’s hybrid data platform and Integration Center of Excellence (CoE). In this key leadership role, you’ll guide cross-functional teams in building and delivering mission-critical systems that power city services and innovation. Collaborate across departments to align data initiatives with organizational goals. Oversee planning, budgeting, and performance to ensure on-time, high-quality delivery. This is an at-will position reporting to senior leadership.

City employees receive a generous lifetime-annuity pension plan with an 11.98% employer contribution through PERSI, 2% 401(k) employer match, and free healthcare coverage for employees and their dependents. In addition, you’ll receive 3 weeks of vacation, 96 hours of sick time, 10 public holidays, and 2 floating holidays annually. Other benefits include public employee student loan forgiveness, 10 weeks paid parental leave, a cash-incentive wellness program, and more. Imagine that .

Essential Functions

Supervises the work of professional, management, technical, and/or other employees of a delineated division or exercises independent authority over a critical function with citywide impact directly or through subordinate supervisors to ensure adequate resources are available for staff to perform their duties; ensures that assigned operations and activities comply with organization goals and objectives; and directs actions and results of major processes and programs and maintains controlling budget authority.

Plans and manages data services, classification, availability, security, usage and analytics to support business goals. Manages resource and budget, performance, cost, scope, scheduling and quality related to data services provided across the organization.

Develops and delivers long-term strategic goals for data architecture vision and standards in collaboration with stakeholders. Builds and maintains an overall data management roadmap and data integration CoE, including API Management and other integration methods. Establishes and enforces processes for governing organizational metadata, ensuring accuracy and validity, and implementing data governance and master data management practices.

Designs and builds self-service analytics and modern data integration and geospatial solutions using both on-premise and cloud technologies. Identifies and implements optimizations in current data and GIS services. Addresses complex problems, provides expert-level diagnosis and debugging, and develops effective solutions. Directs analyses related to data and GIS service health and performance. Manages projects and prioritizes the workload of the data and GIS services team.

Develops and promotes data management methodologies and standards. Identifies and develops opportunities for data reuse, migration, or retirement. Leads data integration and automation services, data warehousing systems and processes, extractions, and interfaces for transactional, geospatial, and unstructured data objects. Drives master data management and data governance strategies, implementation, and practices. Oversees the mapping of data sources, data movement, modeling, interfaces, and analytics. Selects and implements appropriate tools, software, applications, and systems to support data technology goals.

Assists with the design of redundant systems, policies, and procedures for disaster recovery to ensure adequate availability, protection, and integrity of data assets.

Participates in the IT Leadership Team, providing strategic data management perspectives and insights on organizational needs to the department leadership.

Performs other duties as assigned. Nothing in this job description restricts management's right to assign or reassign duties and responsibilities to this position at any time.

Requirements

Required Knowledge, Experience, And Training

+ Bachelor’s degree in computer science, mathematics, statistics, engineering, environmental sciences or a closely related field

+ 15 years of progressively responsible experience as an individual contributor and in a supervisory capacity

+ Or an equivalent combination of education and/or experience.

Knowledge of:

+ Data systems, relational data structures, theories and principles including the use of relevant technologies SQL, scripting, MSSQL Server, SSIS and JSON;

+ Data security design and software development methodologies;

+ Applicable data privacy practices and laws;

+ Configuring and working with Microsoft PowerBI or related data visualization tools;

+ Design and architecture of relational and non-relational database platforms;

+ Computer usage including related software;

+ Data systems in a cloud environment.

Ability to:

+ Perform a full range of programming tasks using a variety of web and component-based programming technologies and languages;

+ Interface programmatically with a variety of enterprise systems;

+ Write clean, consistent, well-documented code following established standards;

+ Review and troubleshoot complex code designs, reverse engineer code and identify compatibility issues; communicate effectively in the English language at a level necessary for efficient job performance;

+ Perform all essential functions as assigned by an authorized employee, supervisor, and/or manager with or without reasonable accommodation.

Preferred Knowledge, Experience, And Training

+ Master’s degree in computer science, mathematics, statistics, engineering or a closely related field

+ 20 years of progressively responsible experience with large-scale complicated datasets.

Special Requirements

+ Applicants must be able to pass:

+ City of Boise background check processes which includes a criminal history check and reference checks in accordance with the City of Boise Hiring Process Regulation

+ Criminal Justice Information System background check (CJIS)

Working Conditions

The physical effort characteristics and working environment described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Physical Efforts

While performing the duties of this job the employee is occasionally lifting/carrying up to 10 pounds. Also, the employee is occasionally pushing/pulling up to 10 pounds. The noise level is never very loud and rarely moderate. Work includes sensory ability to talk and hear. Work in this position also includes close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision and depth perception. Employees will sit, stand, walk, reach and grasp. Position requires hand/finger dexterity.

Working Environment

The work environment will include inside conditions.

Top talent deserves top-notch benefits. The City is among the best in the Treasure Valley when it comes to the benefits and perks we offer our employees.

Most positions are eligible for the general benefits listed here; firefighters, police officers, senior managers, command staff, and directors may be offered other benefit plans.

Healthcare:

+ ZERO premium medical coverage option for you and your family

+ Low-cost dental and vision options.

+ Post-employment health savings account.

Retirement and Investment Plans:

+ PERSI retirement benefits

+ 401(k) or 457b pre-tax investment options with employer match.

+ 457b Roth after-tax investment options with no match

WellBeing Program:

+ Up to $500 cash per year for participants.

+ Alternative transportation incentives.

Paid Leave – City employees receive generous paid leave:

+ 10 hours of vacation per month, and this increases the longer you stay with the City

+ 12 paid holidays every year

+ 8 hours of sick leave per month

+ 10 weeks Parental Leave

Life & Long Term Disability:

+ Basic Life insurance at no cost to you

+ Long Term Disability insurance at no cost to you

Other optional benefits:

+ Pre-tax Flexible Spending Accounts

+ Supplemental Life Insurance

+ Supplemental Disability Insurance

+ Tuition reimbursement

+ Free local bus pass

+ Corporate discount programs

+ AFLAC

+ Employee Assistance Program for short-term counseling on work, family, finances, and personal issues.

Please visit our website for further details mybenefits.cityofboise.org