| |January 20219appropriate analytical models necessary to support use cases such as customer segmentation, among others and leverages the power of predictive insights and analytics.Collaboration: The Chief Data Officer plays a highly collaborative role and in this position, he will oversee cross-functional data governance while simultaneously ensuring adoption and adherence to data quality and process governance in the relevant collaborating departments.Knowledge and Opportunity: The Chief Data Officer acts as an authority within the Data and Analytics department, promoting the use of industry leading trends and new data management technologies. He is also responsible for finding data analytic opportunities for the business and ensuring data and information compliance with the business policy and external legal requirements.Required Qualifications of the Chief Data OfficerEducation: The Chief Data Officer has to have a Computer Science Graduate, Data Science, Management Information Systems, Statistics, Analytics or any other related field. An equivalent of the same in working experience is also acceptable for the position.Experience: A candidate for this position must have had over 10 years or working experience in a senior Data Analytics or Data Science position within a fast-paced and complex business setting. Communication Skills: Communica-tion skills are an absolute necessity for the Chief Data Officer who over-sees the Data Analytics and Data Sci-ence departments, making up the larger Data and Analytics depart-ment. The Chief Data Officer will also play a highly collaborative role where he will interact with stakeholders, depart-mental heads and leadership, as well as other execu-tives. These collaborations will be a determinant of the efficiency in application of data analytics across the business; therefore, he must be capable of tailor-ing messages in a clear, concise, unambiguous, engag-ing, and convincing manner, understandable even by non-technical department personnel.Interpersonal Skills: A suitable candidate will also be a result-driven individual, be highly creative and analytical, be a strategic thinker, have an ability to work comfortably in a collaborative setting, be comfortable working with business top-leadership and executives, be a highly organized, have an ability to work on multiple simultaneous projects and meet tight deadlines, and have an innate ability to remain calm and composed during times of uncertainty and stress.Leadership/People Skills: The Chief Data Officer must also possess strong leadership, being able to move cross-functional groups in a unified direction as well as being able to move business executives and stakeholders. The Chief Data Officer must be a likable and approachable person who inspires trust and confidence in others who will readily give credit in his insights, judgments, and readily following his directives.Companies invest heavily in to IT technology platforms and expect that software will produce desired result, however the best technology plat-form is of no use without right skill of people at every level of organization, and they are the real drivers to convert all analytic data in to useful information. Appointing Chief data officer is a first step for moving toward digital transforma-tion and enable management to take decision through system; next step would be building up artificial intel-ligent to take or propose decisions based on various inputs. Ashwin PrajapatiTHE CHIEF DATA OFFICER PLAYS A LEADING STRATEGIC ROLE WHERE HE DEFINES AND OVERSEES HOW THE BUSINESS CAPTURES, MAINTAINS, AND APPLIES DATA AND INFORMATION IN ORDER TO SUPPORT KEY BUSINESS PROCESSES
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