Director, Data Platform Engineering, Bureau of Data Technology & Strategy

City of New York • New York, NY

18h • $114,930 - $150,000 • Hybrid

About The Position

The Center for Population Health Data Science (CPHDS), launched in October 2023, aims to catalyze critical data modernization work and enable the agency to make progress toward linking public health, healthcare, and social service data for timely and effective publication. The CPHDS is working towards making these data more accessible, timely, equitable, meaningfully usable, and protected – and actively used to protect and promote the health and wellbeing of New Yorkers. The Bureau of Data Technology and Strategy (DTS) is dedicated to the development of the Enterprise Data Platform (EDP) and is home to data strategy, data governance, data product management, data engineering, and data science capabilities. The Applied Data Science and Solutions unit within DTS oversees a number of mission-critical agency projects including the Master Patient Index project, the Client Engagement Platform project, the Whole Genome Sequencing project, and various interoperability projects to support Disease surveillance systems. The unit also provides analytical support for ad hoc analyses and admin support for the Enterprise Data Platform.

Requirements

• A baccalaureate degree from an accredited college or university, and two years of satisfactory full-time (not classroom based) experience in database administration. Experience must include database design, configuration, installation, troubleshooting, integration, performance monitoring, maintenance, enhancement, and security management.
• A four-year high school diploma or its educational equivalent and six years of satisfactory full-time (not classroom based) information technology experience (IT) of which at least two years must have been database administration experience as described in "1" above.
• A satisfactory equivalent of education and/or experience equivalent to "1" or "2" above.
• Undergraduate education may be substituted for experience on the basis that 30 undergraduate semester credits from an accredited college or university is equivalent to 6 months of information technology experience, but may not be substituted for the required database administration experience.
• A masters degree in computer science or a related field from an accredited college or university may substitute for one year of database administration experience.
• All candidates must have at least one year of satisfactory full-time (not classroom based) database administration experience.

Nice To Haves

• 5 or more years of Python experience
• 5 or more years of SQL development experience
• 5 or more years of business intelligence experience
• 3 or more years of system admin experience
• 3 or more years of datalake experience
• 3 or more years of cloud development work

Responsibilities

• Develop, manage, and build integration pipelines across environments to support multiple agency initiatives.
• Design and implement CI/CD-enabled data pipelines to automate and manage the promotion of updates across development, staging, and production environments.
• Design and implement mechanisms for managing access and permissions for EDP resources.
• Oversee development of datalake integration processes.
• Advise and implement governance and permissioning in datalake environment.
• Lead communication, planning, and coordination among stakeholders for projects.

Benefits

• Premium-free health insurance plan
• Additional health, fitness, and financial benefits may be available based on the position’s associated union/benefit fund.
• A public sector defined benefit pension plan with steady monthly payments in retirement.
• A tax-deferred savings program
• A robust Worksite Wellness Program that offers resources and opportunities to keep you healthy while serving New Yorkers.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Director