Salary: $57,656.00 – $72,070.00 Annually
Location : Downtown Dallas, TX
Job Type: Full-time
Job Number: HRNCS-DATASCIANALYI-DBINEW
Department: Data Analytics and Business Intelligence
* Org (REQUIRED): 8841 Data Analytics
Opening Date: 05/15/2023
Closing Date: Continuous
Position Purpose
Welcome to the City of Dallas!
The City of Dallas is one of the largest employers in the DFW Metroplex.
We offer growth opportunities and a chance to make a difference in our community.
What do we offer?
A competitive salary, five year vested pension plan, great benefits package that includes health, vision and dental insurance, pet insurance, tuition reimbursement, qualifying childcare assistance, paid time off and more.
Join our diverse workforce and help us in providing excellent service to the residents of Dallas while building a rewarding career.
The candidate will be responsible for supporting the city on its journey to becoming a data centric organization. Core responsibilities include assessment and creation of data inventories, analyses of various data streams, and utilization of large data sets to determine unique insights to further business needs. The ideal candidate will have deep data knowledge and skills, an eye for human centered design and a desire to tell concise and compelling data stories. By using available data and information, the Data Science Analyst will help the City become smarter, more efficient and effective in delivering services and programs to constituents.
Essential Functions
• Develop mechanisms to ingest, analyze, validate, normalize, and clean data.
• Retrieve and combine data from databases, websites, department systems, etc.
• Use unstructured data and data mining techniques to extract valuable information.
• Create data visualizations that clearly communicate trends and are accessible for non-technical audiences.
• Develop tools to monitor and analyze model performance and data accuracy.
• Collaborate with partners to produce and communicate insights to various levels of leadership.
• Use data to aid City staff to make informed strategic decisions.
• Contribute to the City’s Data Academy, Data Collaborative, Community of Practice, and other citywide data initiatives, as needed.
• Support data analytics trainings, as needed.
Minimum Qualifications
Experience
2 years of related experience (database management, operations, statistical analysis, etc.)
required.
Licenses and Certifications
A valid State of Texas driver’s license
Education
Bachelor’s degree in a data science or related field (data science, math, statistics, social science, etc.) as determined by the Department Director.
The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work performed by personnel assigned to this classification and is not necessarily an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties and skill required.
The salary listed on this job posting is the starting salary range; amount offered will depend upon qualifications.
Supplemental Information
• Familiarity with Tableau.
• Proficiency in R and/or Python preferred.
• Experience with or ability to learn SQL or another querying language.
• Demonstrated experience working with large datasets.
• Examples of past translation of data into visualizations or report outs required.
• Experience performing data mining and statistical analysis with civic, socioeconomic, and/or demographic data preferred.
• Demonstrated proficiency with knowledge of data analytics or data science lifecycle.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with an emphasis on the ability to communicate data and insights to a variety of stakeholders using non-technical language.
• A demonstratable ability to use data science tools to approach a problem and ability to humanize data sets and communicate insights through that lens.
• Willingness to learn new programming and data analysis techniques.
• Strong interpersonal skills and ease in building effective relationships with all levels of city staff and officials, as well as public stakeholders and citizens.
• A personal value of and talent for portraying data in an unbiased and objective manner.
• Commitment to the City’s core values – Empathy, Ethics, Excellence, Engagement, and Equity.
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