chief data officer

Chief data officers manage companies' enterprise-wide data administration and data mining functions. They ensure data are used as a strategic business asset at the executive level and implement and support a more collaborative and aligned information management infrastructure for the benefit of the organisation at large.

Scope note

Excludes data scientists and data analysts. Includes people performing high executive data roles.

Alternative Labels

CDO

chief analytics officer

chief data officer

chief data officers

Regulatory Aspect

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http://ec.europa.eu/growth/single-market/services/free-movement-professionals/qualifications-recognition_en

Narrower occupations

- ICT information and knowledge manager

Skills & Competences

Essential Skills and Competences

apply information security policies define data quality criteria define technology strategy make data-driven decisions manage ICT data architecture manage ICT data classification manage data utilise decision support system

Essential Knowledge

business processes data ethics data mining data science data storage decision support systems information structure visual presentation techniques

Optional Skills and Competences

apply change management coordinate technological activities deliver visual presentation of data develop information security strategy implement ICT risk management integrate ICT data manage business knowledge report analysis results use databases

Optional Knowledge

CA Datacom/DB DB2 Filemaker (database management systems) IBM Informix LDAP LINQ MDX Microsoft Access MySQL N1QL ObjectStore OpenEdge Database Oracle Relational Database PostgreSQL SPARQL SQL Server Teradata Database XQuery business intelligence cloud technologies data engineering data models data quality assessment database database development tools database management systems image recognition information architecture information categorisation information confidentiality information extraction information security strategy online analytical processing query languages resource description framework query language unstructured data

Skills & Competences

Concept URI

Concept Uri

http://data.europa.eu/esco/occupation/e297ec12-4712-40a4-ad98-ba004cacb205

Status

released

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