Head of Data and Online, Member of the Executive Board (a)

LUSTAT Statistik Luzern is the competence and service center for public statistics in the Canton of Luzern. The statistics office collects and analyzes data from the Canton of Luzern and its municipalities and provides this information to the public in a user-friendly manner. Additionally, it offers individual, fee-based services. These include technical and methodological consulting, special evaluations, overall presentations, scenarios, and model calculations.

What you can look forward to

• A key role with a lot of creative freedom. As a member of the Executive Board, you will directly shape the future of LUSTAT.
• Work with impact. LUSTAT is the first point of contact for reliable statistical and data-based information in Central Switzerland. Our platform provides the basis for decisions by the Canton and municipalities, other Central Swiss cantons, business, and the public.
• A modern data organization. We work according to the principles of code first, open source, open by default, and privacy by design. We operate our data platform ourselves and thus maintain control over our data. Analyses are created reproducibly in R and SQL with Git. We are part of the cantonal specialist office for Open Government Data, develop Nowcasting products, and own tools, such as for anonymization with local NLP models.
• You will work with around 35 employees from Data Science, Statistics, IT, Communication, and Administration in an independent and autonomous company of the Canton of Luzern, with short decision-making paths, regionally rooted and nationally networked.
• We support your further development in leadership and technical topics with internal and external training.
• Flexible annual working hours, up to three days of home office per week, and a modern workplace in the new building at Seetalplatz right next to the Emmenbrücke station complement our offer.

Have we sparked your interest?

At LUSTAT, your skills and your personality count, regardless of gender, age, origin, or life model. We look forward to meeting you!

Head of Data and Online, Member of the Executive Board (a) #

80% - 100% | Luzern | Home office possible ##

Society, economy, and politics need reliable statistical foundations. LUSTAT collects, links, analyzes, and publishes data for the Canton of Luzern, its municipalities, and other public clients. Would you like to restructure the data platform and IT infrastructure behind it, lead a strong team, and, as a member of the Executive Board, shape how the Canton of Luzern and the Central Swiss cantons work with data?

For our new Data and Online unit, we are looking for a personality who combines technical depth, drive, and a passion for leadership. From 2027, the unit will bundle Data Warehouse, data pipelines, analysis platform, Open Government Data, IT, and Web, thus forming the technical foundation for all statistics and analyses of LUSTAT. You will take on a key role in an organization on the rise and actively shape its further development.

Your tasks

• You will build up the Data and Online unit and lead a team of six specialists from Data Engineering, IT operations, and web development. In doing so, you will work technically and set technical accents.
• You will develop the Data Warehouse and data pipelines (ETL) into a modern, automated data platform with interfaces (APIs) and automated quality checks that the entire organization can rely on.
• You are responsible for the replacement of SAS and will build an open, code-based analysis platform with R, SQL, and Git. With versioning, automated tests, and CI/CD, you will make data processing and publications reproducible.
• You will create the foundations for the responsible use of AI in public statistics, from a secure, locally operated AI environment to data and metadata that AI applications can also find and use correctly.
• You will ensure that data is discoverable and freely usable, with Open Government Data, metadata on I14Y, and a data catalog.
• You will position LUSTAT as the contact point for data issues in the Canton and advise departments and offices on data standards, Data Governance, and Data Stewardship.
• You are responsible for IT operations, information security, and lustat.ch and, as a member of the Executive Board, shape the strategy and development of LUSTAT.

Your profile

• You have a university degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Business Informatics, Statistics, or a related field. You have several years of experience with data platforms, data warehouses, or data pipelines, and with modern development practices such as Git, CI/CD, and automated tests.
• You make architectural decisions confidently and are proficient enough in SQL, R, or Python to evaluate code.
• You have experience in technical and personnel leadership and bring people and technology together.
• You understand data protection and information security as a quality feature and incorporate them into your thinking from the start.
• You follow developments surrounding AI and know how they can be integrated into data processes safely and traceably.
• You explain technical solutions in an understandable way and win over specialists without a technical background. You communicate confidently in German and have good English skills.

Tim Hagmann
Director

+41 41 228 56 10