Principal Data Strategist, Government Advisory & Innovation

The Principal Data Strategist is the senior data and analytics mind behind Accela's Government Advisory work. The role turns government permitting, licensing, and inspection data into strategic insight — owning the data architecture and KPI methodology that power our strategic assessments, KPI Insights offering, and executive readouts. It blends three strengths: executive advisory, strategic data architecture, and bringing innovative, data-driven approaches to how government agencies modernize.

This is a builder's role. The advisory practice and the KPI Insights offering are scaling across a growing account portfolio, and the data engine behind them needs a senior owner who can both set the methodology and work hands-on with the data itself.

• → Data architecture for advisory delivery. Own the data models, extraction logic, and KPI methodology behind strategic assessments — the SQL/ETL, data dictionaries, and source schemas that make each engagement fast, accurate, and repeatable.
• → KPI Insights as a productized offering. Mature KPI Insights from a per-engagement effort into a scalable, standardized capability — reusable dashboards, benchmark logic, and a data foundation that holds up across accounts.
• → Executive advisory. Sit with government directors and deputy directors. Translate data findings into business impact and clear recommendations; present architecture and data strategy to C-suite and senior public-sector stakeholders.
• → Innovation in data & AI strategy. Bring new approaches — AI-assisted analysis, intake-quality measurement, predictive and benchmarking models — to how we read government operations and advise on modernization. Help shape the data side of our AI / OpenCounter / digital-front-door strategy.
• → Pre-sales technical credibility. Support RFPs, oral presentations, and discovery with data architecture and migration expertise — sizing data work, de-risking delivery, and giving prospects confidence in the plan.
• → Methodology & enablement. Codify standards, frameworks, and playbooks so the practice's data capability is institutional, not dependent on any single person.

• 10+ years architecting enterprise data ecosystems — data warehousing, MDM, SQL/ETL/ELT, and complex migrations across fragmented environments.
• Proven delivery in government / public sector — e.g., statewide licensing and permitting platforms, large-scale record migrations, and replacing paper-based processes with digital service delivery.
• Strong Salesforce / platform background, including Public Sector solutions, integrations, and large multi-system consolidations.
• Cloud data fluency — Snowflake, AWS, Azure, modern cloud data warehousing.
• Reporting & analytics depth — turning operational data into KPIs, dashboards, and decision support.
• Executive presence — able to advise C-suite stakeholders on strategy, timelines, capacity, and risk.
• A practice-builder's instinct — has scaled teams and frameworks, mentored talent, and stood up repeatable delivery processes.

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