Assistant Director of Data Management – Office of Institutional Research (Fixed-term for 3 years)

NYU Abu Dhabi is pioneering a new model of higher education
for a global world, dedicated to excellence in teaching and
research and to advancing cooperation and progress on humanity?s
shared challenges. Drawing on the strengths of the NYU global
network, it offers an outstanding liberal arts and sciences
education to students from the United Arab Emirates, the United
States, and around the world, with a distinctive focus on
intercultural understanding and leadership. It supports innovative
research and graduate education programs that push forward the
frontiers of knowledge and respond in powerful and
interdisciplinary ways to vital global and local
challenges.

Position Summary

UAE nationals are encouraged to apply

New York University Abu Dhabi (NYUAD) seeks to appoint an Assistant
Director of Data Management.

The Assistant Director of Data Management will perform advanced
data science and solution architecture tasks to support data-driven
monitoring across key domains such as student, personnel, research,
education, and administrative outcomes. Key responsibilities
include the design, maintenance, automation, and accuracy assurance
of complex longitudinal databases and data repositories. This
position requires the delivery of consistent, accurate, timely, and
reproducible database and reporting solutions to support short-term
decision-making needs, long-term planning and evaluation exercises,
and accountability and compliance submissions.

Key Responsibilities:

Data Management and Reporting

• Data Processes: Streamline and automate the compilation,
merging, cleaning, manipulation, organization, and maintenance of
data extracted from campus (and/or external) ERP systems,
applications, and/or websites to serve current and future
departmental and institutional reporting needs
• Report Generation: Generate automated tabular, graphical,
and/or advanced analytical reports

Data Integrity and Quality

• Maintain Data Integrity: Independently review, verify,
reconcile, and update databases to ensure data accuracy,
trustworthiness, and completeness
• Ensure Data Quality: Support data quality assurance by
conducting validation, diagnostics, cleaning exercises, and audits
to verify data accuracy; identify and diagnose inconsistencies
and/or general quality issues across analytical systems of
record

Optimize Data Analysis and Access

• Standardize Data Structures: Organize data repositories into a
unified relational schema to support reporting, and analysis
• Enable Self-Service Data Access: Provide end users with tools
to extract, transform, process, and/or analyze data independently,
including capabilities for live interactive data exploration

Metadata Documentation

• Procedures: Create (and maintain) detailed documentation
(and/or training materials) to ensure that procedures for
reproducing data, variable transformations, and overall reports are
transparent, verifiable, and reliable
• Database Structures: Create (and maintain) documentation on
database structures, and the formats in which elements are
maintained
• Codebooks and Dictionaries: Create (and maintain) codebooks
that thoroughly describe database contents – including variables,
transformations, storage types, etc
• Data Mappings: Create (and maintain) mappings or cross-walks of
various databases and/or tables to illustrate relationships and
facilitate data integrations

Other Activities/Duties

• Oversee the work of one direct report
• Website development, content management, application/tool
creation
• Develop and sustain effective relationships to better
understand data and reporting needs, identify synergies, and
enhance improvements/efficiencies
• Collaboration with academic and business unit information
systems personnel and IT to:
• further ensure the quality, validity, and accessibility of
institutional data; and
• resolve data discrepancies and clarify reporting
procedures
• Collaborate with IT on technical matters related to
departmental: accounts, licenses, software
acquisition/installation/updates, websites, web applications,
servers, databases, etc.
• Pursue data science-oriented professional development, and stay
updated on current analytical trends in higher education
• The above statements outline the essential responsibilities and
requirements of the role (and are not an exhaustive list of
duties). There will invariably be a need for the incumbent to
assist with various ad-hoc accountability and/or compliance
informational requests, coordinate special projects, and undertake
other tasks that are logically related to (or necessary for) the
position

Required Education:

• Bachelor’s degree

Preferred Education:

• Bachelor’s, Master’s, or Doctoral degree in an analytical field
(i.e., Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, Business
Analytics, Operations Research, Information Systems, Economics,
Data Science, Computational Social Science)

Required Experience:

• At least six (6) years of related post-baccalaureate
professional experience in a formal organizational setting focused
on ERP systems, data warehouses, database management, programming,
automation, APIs, visualization, web applications, analytics
• Excellent English written and verbal skills (and advanced
Microsoft Word and PowerPoint experience) to communicate
effectively across groups and levels in an effective and
collaborative manner
• Advanced Excel proficiencies (VLOOKUP, macros, pivoting
capabilities, conditional statements, graphics, analysis modules,
etc.)
• Experience with collaboration and web content management
applications
• Demonstrable experience with web forms
• Experience with metrics development
• Understanding of basic univariate and bivariate descriptive
statistics
• Familiarity with implementation and maintenance of ETL
methodologies and solutions, business objects, query, and reporting
functionalities in ERP systems
• Strong and demonstrable skills in the management and
manipulation of large and complex relational databases
• Strong understanding of data warehouse concepts/principles, and
structured/unstructured databases
• Knowledge of data validation techniques
• Strong familiarity with web scraping, web crawling, debugging
sites, and APIs
• Experience with browser automation
• Technical expertise with database administration and various
development, programming, and writing complex queries (SQL, PL/SQL,
NoSQL, .NET, VB, C/C++, Python, Ruby, etc.)
• Programming expertise with web development frameworks,
web-based service technologies, and web programming languages
(Java, PHP, JavaScript, jQuery, Bootstrap, CSS, HTML5, XML, JSON,
Ajax, etc.)
• Experience with Unix/Linux operating systems, shells, and tools
such as grep, find, wget, awk, etc
• Highly detailed-oriented, commitment to data accuracy and
consistency, and superior organizational and project management
skills; self-initiated, highly motivated, flexible, and able to
work effectively both independently and collaboratively in a
multicultural team environment; work productively on multiple tasks
under pressure with competing and inflexible deadlines; distill
complex data and information requirements from a wide spectrum of
requestors into valuable end-products; maintaining composure in an
environment of constant quality improvement; and ability to
exercise good judgment and discretion when navigating complex
situations and with confidential information

Preferred Experience:

• Oracle Certified Professional; Certified Professional in Python
Programming; Tableau Server Certified Associate
• At least ten (10) years of related post-baccalaureate
professional experience in a formal organizational setting focused
on ERP systems, data warehouses, database management, programming,
automation, APIs, visualization, web applications, analytics
• At least four (4) years of related professional experience in a
university environment and/or setting, and a special knowledge of
academic programs
• At least two (2) years of related professional experience in an
institutional research, effectiveness, quality assurance,
information management, analytics, planning, or similar Office
and/or comparable experience in higher education research a
university environment and/or setting, and a special knowledge of
academic programs
• Understanding of, and commitment to, NYUAD’s vision, mission,
and values
• Commitment to NYUAD’s values of diversity, equity, inclusion,
and belonging; demonstrated experience with, and understanding of,
the broad diversity of the NYUAD community (students, faculty,
staff, and others)
• Familiarity with NYUAD databases and systems and deep
understanding of linkages and dependencies across institutional
student, faculty, research, financial, HR, and other data
• Working knowledge of MoE’s CHEDS framework, ADEK’s UScore
Platform, IPEDS, Common Dataset
• Familiarity with data governance and data privacy platforms
(Collibra, OneTrust, etc.)
• Understanding of personal data privacy-oriented
regulations
• Demonstrable Oracle business intelligence reporting tools and
information builder experience
• Familiarity with administration, management, and maintenance of
Tableau Server and Tableau Online including user and group
management; report publishing and distribution; and data extraction
scheduling
• Experience with Generative AI
• Experience in building self-updating real-time front-end
components using HTTP/REST API calls and the WebSocket
protocol
• Machine Learning (PyTorch, Google Cloud AutoML, Apache Mahout,
etc.)
• Knowledge of Natural Language Processing, Regular Expressions,
Robotic Process Automation, and Pattern
Recognition/Identification/Matching
• Experience designing, installing, and configuring new/existing
Unix/Linux systems; Unix/Linux environment troubleshooting,
remediation, etc.
• Advanced data visualization tools (D3, Apache Superset, Shiny,
ggplot2, matplotlib, plotly, etc.)
• Experience with statistical analysis software (i.e., Stata, R,
SAS, etc.)
• Experience with mathematical open source packages (i.e., NumPy,
SciPy, Pandas, etc.)

Other Information About NYUAD

NYU Abu Dhabi is a degree-granting research university with a fully
integrated liberal arts and science undergraduate program in the
Arts, Sciences, Social Sciences, Humanities, and Engineering. NYU
Abu Dhabi, NYU New York, and NYU Shanghai, form the backbone of
NYU’s global network university, an interconnected network of
portal campuses and academic centers across six continents that
enable seamless international mobility of students and faculty in
their pursuit of academic and scholarly activity. This global
university represents a transformative shift in higher education,
one in which the intellectual and creative endeavors of academia
are shaped and examined through an international and multicultural
perspective. As a major intellectual hub at the crossroads of the
Arab world, NYUAD serves as a center for scholarly thought,
advanced research, knowledge creation, and sharing, through its
academic, research, and creative activities.