Data Strategy Specialist

About the role

• Job Family: Solutions Architecture
• Travel Required: None
• Clearance Required: Ability to Obtain Public Trust

What You Will Do

• Assess current data, processes, tools, and information flows supporting staff planning, budgeting, forecasting, regulatory examination workflows, and technology resource planning to identify deficiencies and improvement opportunities.
• Define practical data strategies and requirements that support redesigned business processes and technology solutions and translate organizational priorities into implementable improvements.
• Map current-state and future-state data flows and identify data gaps, dependencies, quality issues, integration challenges, and remediation requirements.
• Support data remediation across enterprise platforms and workflows, including troubleshooting data-related issues that prevent processes or technology solutions from operating effectively.
• Support planning-model and capacity-planning improvements for budgeting, forecasting, workforce and staff planning, and associated system tools.
• Develop business, functional, and data requirements supporting process redesign and system improvements and work with technology teams to translate those requirements into executable solutions.
• Support regulatory examination management improvements, including data and information flows related to examination tracking, issue identification and resolution, document production, and response coordination.
• Establish data-driven measures and evidence to support performance monitoring, corrective action tracking, implementation validation, and audit-ready documentation.
• Partner across business, risk, compliance, operations, and technology teams to ensure improvements support organizational priorities, regulatory commitments, and sustainable operations.

What You Will Need

• Must be able to OBTAIN and MAINTAIN a Federal or DoD "PUBLIC TRUST"; candidates must obtain approved adjudication of their PUBLIC TRUST prior to onboarding with Guidehouse. Candidates with an ACTIVE PUBLIC TRUST or SUITABILITY are preferred.
• US Citizenship is contractually required.
• Minimum of SIX (6+) years of professional experience
• Experience using data to support business process improvement, planning, forecasting, operations, technology implementation, or transformation is highly preferred.
• Understanding of data risk, controls, privacy, cybersecurity, and regulatory requirements is highly preferred.

What Would Be Nice To Have

• Bachelor's degree from an accredited university.
• Banking, financial services, payments, or financial regulatory experience.
• Experience with workforce/staff planning, forecasting, capacity planning, budgeting, or planning-model improvement.
• Experience with regulatory examination or audit-management workflows, including examination tracking, issue identification and resolution, document production, or response coordination.
• Experience supporting implementation or remediation associated with regulatory findings, audit findings, or exam-driven corrective actions.
• Familiarity with enterprise data and workflow platforms such as Snowflake, ServiceNow, and SharePoint.
• Experience working across business, technology, risk, compliance, and operations in highly regulated environments.
• Strong analytical, cross-functional facilitation, executive communication, documentation, and problem-solving skills.
• Demonstrated ability to take improvements from assessment through implementation and completion.
• Strong experience in data strategy, data analysis, data requirements, data flows, interfaces, integrations, dependencies, and remediation.
• Experience conducting current-state assessments, gap analyses, and future-state design and translating findings into actionable business and technology improvements.
• Experience developing business, functional, and data requirements and supporting solutions through implementation.
• Experience with business process improvement, workflow redesign, performance measurement, and evidence-based assessment.

Pay and benefits

The annual salary range for this position is $130,000.00-$216,000.00. Compensation decisions depend on a wide range of factors, including but not limited to skill sets, experience and training, security clearances, licensure and certifications, and other business and organizational needs.

What We Offer

Guidehouse offers a comprehensive, total rewards package that includes competitive compensation and a flexible benefits package that reflects our commitment to creating a diverse and supportive workplace.

Benefits include

• Medical, Rx, Dental & Vision Insurance
• Personal and Family Sick Time & Company Paid Holidays
• Parental Leave
• 401(k) Retirement Plan
• Group Term Life and Travel Assistance
• Voluntary Life and AD&D Insurance
• Health Savings Account, Health Care & Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts
• Transit and Parking Commuter Benefits
• Short-Term & Long-Term Disability
• Tuition Reimbursement, Personal Development, Certifications & Learning Opportunities
• Employee Referral Program
• Corporate Sponsored Events & Community Outreach
• Care.com annual membership
• Employee Assistance Program
• Supplemental Benefits via Corestream (Critical Care, Hospital Indemnity, Accident Insurance, Legal Assistance and ID theft protection, etc.)
• Position may be eligible for a discretionary variable incentive bonus