Data Manager

Career Area: Information Technology

Occupation Group: Database Specialists

Salary

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A typical Data Manager earns the following wages (national and state):

State

The average salary in North Carolina for those pursuing this career is $61,335

National

The average salary in the United States for those pursuing this career is $84,889

What Does a Professional in this Career Do?

Manages databases and coordinates data collection and analysis for a company or organization. Develops procedures for documentation and data storage. Performs or manages data analysis for studies, projects and reports.

Employment Trends

The job demand and job growth statistics shown here were derived from job posts over the past year. Expected job growth projections are extrapolated from year-over-year job post listing history.

Job demand and job growth is expected at the following rates:

Skills

A professional in this position typically utilizes the following skills in the course of everyday work in this exciting and challenging field:

Baseline Skills

The following are baseline skills every Data Manager is expected to have in order to experience success in this field:

• Communication Skills: The ability to convey information to another effectively and efficiently.
• Teamwork / Collaboration: Experience working in collaborative efforts with a team to achieve a common goal or to complete a task in the most effective and efficient way.
• Microsoft Excel: Microsoft Excel is a spreadsheet developed by Microsoft for Windows, macOS, Android and iOS. It features calculation, graphing tools, pivot tables, and a macro programming language called Visual Basic for Applications.
• Research: Experience performing creative and systematic work to understand a product, market, or customer, either before building a new solution, or to troubleshoot an existing issue
• Detail-Oriented: A detail oriented person is someone who pays attention to the details and can make a conscious effort to understand causes instead of just the effects, and that does this in a second nature type of way.

Specialized Skills

These skills are specific to working in this career:

• Data Management: Data management comprises all the disciplines related to managing data as a valuable resource.
• Data Quality: Data quality refers to the condition of a set of values of qualitative or quantitative variables.
• SQL: SQL ( ESS-kew-EL or SEE-kwl, Structured Query Language) is a domain-specific language used in programming and designed for managing data held in a relational database management system (RDBMS), or for stream processing in a relational data stream management system (RDSMS).
• Data Governance: Working experience of Data Governance, which is the data management of all the data which an organization has to ensure that high data quality exists throughout the complete lifecycle of the data. The key focus areas of data governance include availability, usability, consistency, data integrity and data security and includes establishing processes to ensure effective data management throughout the enterprise such as accountability for the adverse effects of poor data quality and ensuring that the data which an enterprise has can be used by the entire organization.
• Project Management: Project management is the discipline of initiating, planning, executing, controlling, and closing the work of a team to achieve specific goals and meet specific success criteria.

Distinguishing Skills

Any Data Manager that possesses the following skills will stand out against the competition:

• Big Data: Big data is a term for data sets that are so large or complex that traditional data processing application software is inadequate to deal with them.
• Data Integration: Data integration involves combining data residing in different sources and providing users with a unified view of them.
• Data Visualization: Working experience with the creation and study of the visual representation of data. This includes communicating information clearly and efficiently, with the use of statistical graphs, plots, information graphics and other tools.
• Informatica: Informatica is a software development company founded in 1993.
• Enterprise Data Management: Working experience of Enterprise Data Management, which is the ability of an organization to precisely define, easily integrate and effectively retrieve data for both internal applications and external communication. EDM is focused on the creation of accurate, consistent and transparent content. EDM emphasizes data precision, granularity and meaning and is concerned with how the content is integrated into business applications as well as how it is passed along from one business process to another.

Salary Boosting Skills

A professional who wishes to excel in this career path may consider developing the following highly valued skills:

• Big Data Analytics: Working experience of Big Data Analytics, which refers to the use of predictive analytics, user behavior analytics, or certain other advanced data analytics methods that extract value from big data - data sets that are so voluminous and complex that traditional data-processing application software are inadequate to deal with them.

Experience

This position typically requires the following level of experience. The numbers presented in the pie charts below were derived from actual job posts over the past year. Not all job postings list experience requirements.

Common Job Titles

It is possible to find work in this field in positions commonly listed as the following job titles:

• Data Manager
• Data Governance Manager
• Senior Data Manager
• Data Architect II
• Purser/Data Manager - Aboard A Fishing Vessel

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• Data Specialist
• Data Analyst (General)
• Senior Data Analyst
• Database Analyst / Developer
• Data Analyst (Finance)