Head of Data and BI at Vejle Municipality

The Municipality of Vejle is seeking a leader who can head our shared BI and data area and develop a strong team of specialists. You will be responsible for an area of significance to the entire municipality, from the technical architecture and data quality to the solutions that will enable leaders and departments to make better decisions.

About the position

Data and BI are the municipality's central competence center for data and decision support. We work with some of the municipality's most valuable assets: data about citizens, children, young people, the elderly, employees and municipal initiatives, which daily form the basis for decisions about welfare and services. Quality, security, accountability and trust are therefore fundamental in everything we do.

In the Municipality of Vejle we have big ambitions for how data can create value. Data should make us wiser about operations, inform decisions, and contribute to better solutions for citizens and the organization, and we are looking for a leader who will take responsibility for that ambition.

Your tasks will include

• Lead and develop a team of about 6 specialists and bring the employees' different professional backgrounds into play as effectively as possible.
• Set the direction for development and operation of the municipality's shared data platform and data models.
• Ensure data quality, security, and coherence in the municipality's management information and decision support.
• Be a professional sparring partner and understand the consequences of technical and architectural choices.
• Qualify the organization's needs and set the direction for the solutions.
• Create strong collaborations with business areas, analytics environments, system owners and external suppliers.

We are looking for

You have a relevant advanced degree and solid experience from the data, BI or digitalization field. You do not need to know our entire technical setup from day one, but you must be able to understand the architecture, ask the right questions and be a credible sparring partner for the specialists. We expect that you can recognize most of the following:

• You can lead independent specialists through clear direction, prioritization and trust.
• You have a solid understanding of data architecture, data models and BI solutions, ideally with experience from cloud platforms such as Microsoft Fabric.
• You can connect technical possibilities with the organization's needs and explain the consequences of different choices.
• You are aspirational on behalf of the data area and motivated by developing solutions that work in practice.
• You are curious about data, technology, artificial intelligence and new possibilities and can assess when they are relevant to bring into play.
• You build trust across and can navigate a large, politically led organization.
• You can create structure, make decisions and follow up on cross-cutting tasks and dependencies.

Leadership of strong professionalities

Employees in Data and BI are highly specialized and autonomous. You don't need to have all the answers, but you should be able to join the professional discussions, create clear frameworks and priorities and make decisions when needed.

You must be curious about each employee's professional expertise and motivation and create opportunities for the employees to develop and bring their competencies into play, both individually and as a team. At the same time, you should strengthen the team's focus on users and the value the solutions must create. This requires you to be able to bridge between technical specialists, analysts, managers and business areas.

We offer

The Municipality of Vejle is among the municipalities in the country that are farthest ahead in data architecture. You will therefore take over a strong and mature professional foundation – and you will be responsible, together with the employees, to develop it further and ensure that the technical strength position creates even greater value in the organization.

You will have a clear management space, but you are not alone. You report to the head of staff and receive close sparring on priorities, difficult choices and your development as a leader. You will also become part of a small leadership group with a direct and informal tone and a joint ambition to create better coherence between data, analytics and the organization's needs.

Practical information

The position is a permanent full-time position with expected start on January 1, 2027.

You can obtain more information by contacting the head of staff Sarah Yde Junge at tel. 23 27 93 56 or email [email protected] .

The application deadline is November 15, and we expect to hold interviews on November 19.

Submit your application

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Vejle Municipality encourages everyone to apply for the position regardless of gender, age, ethnic background, disability, etc.

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