Data Engineer/Scientist (Technology Solutions Analyst IV) (Vacancy)

City of Columbus, OH - Franklin County, OH

Full-time

Franklin County, OH

Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support

About the position

Under direction, is responsible for researching, designing, developing, and improving enterprise data and/or application solutions; performs related duties as required. The position involves developing data and/or applications solutions, which may include utilization of supportive software, data management platforms, database management systems, server applications, and/or web-based development systems. The role requires conferring with departmental or divisional personnel to analyze current operational procedures, document potential problems, and identify specific data input and output requirements for software system development.

Responsibilities

• Develops data and/or applications solutions, which may include utilization of supportive software, data management platforms, database management systems, server applications, and/or web-based development systems.
• Confers with departmental or divisional personnel to analyze current operational procedures, document potential problems, and identify specific data input and output requirements for software system development.
• Analyzes requirements of data and/or application solutions, such as licensing requirements, data requirements, peripheral equipment, maintenance support, server requirements, access on mobile devices, or other system interfaces and requirements to determine feasibility of system designs within time and budget constraints.
• Reviews the outline of the new or revised business system process(es) and makes recommendations for improvements by defining the hardware and software requirements of the proposed system(s) or process(es).
• Evaluates integration requirements for data and applications and supportive databases; develops solutions for integration and/or extraction of data for cross-platform dependencies among application systems.
• Prepares cost estimates and project timelines for implementation.
• Consults with technical staff to evaluate business processes, needs, expectations, and functional requirements and translates into technical requirements.
• Designs and proposes solutions to streamline or enhance business functions/processes.
• Develops solutions for citywide data integration and management; creates synthesized data models, transformations and visualizations for deployment of analytics to meet the business or operational needs of the City.
• Researches third-party software systems for feasibility of design and compatibility and adaptability with existing architecture and business processes.
• Reviews proposed hardware and software solutions and recommends selection to management for approval.
• Formulates, designs, configures, and/or modifies software systems using scientific analysis to predict and measure outcome and consequences of design.
• Develops and directs software system testing procedures, programming, and documentation.
• Serves as senior consultant for database design, implementation, and administration, including security, backup, recovery, and maintenance.
• Advises departmental or divisional personnel in their technology needs with regard to data corruption, security issues, computer viruses, and hardware and software redundancy.
• Consults with staff members to evaluate interface between hardware and software and operational and performance requirements of software system.
• Analyzes system growth and evaluates processing efficiency.
• Plans and prepares technical reports, memoranda, and instructional manuals as documentation of system development.
• Makes recommendations to management regarding the planning, development, and coordination of software system development projects.
• Performs engineering cost/benefit analysis to verify potential effectiveness of new products.
• Conducts technical research for building new designs, developing business cases, selling ideas to management, and gaining commitment for new system enhancements.
• Mentors business systems analysts and senior programmer analysts in their work and individual projects as requested by management.
• Participates in appropriate professional activities to stay abreast of existing and emerging technologies.

Requirements

• Possession of a bachelor's degree.
• Four (4) years of experience in systems analysis, database management, applications development, or software design.
• Valid possession of one (1) of the following certifications may be substituted for the required education: Microsoft Certified Solutions Developer (all tracks), Microsoft Certified Solutions Expert (Data Platform or Business Intelligence), or Geographic Information Systems Professional (GISP).
• Additional experience as specified above may substitute for the educational requirement on a year-for-year basis.
• Possession of a master's degree may be substituted for one (1) year of the required experience.

Nice-to-haves

• Highly skilled in Talend Data Fabric: Talend Studio, Talend Data Integration, Talend Enterprise Service Bus, Talend Data Catalog, Talend Data Stewardship, Talend Data Preparation or other low-code data integration tools (Informatica, MS SQL Server Integration Services, Azure Data Factory, Qlik).
• Advanced knowledge of RDBMS platforms (SQL Server in particular), GitHub, and SOAP/REST APIs.
• Highly proficient in developing data ingestion, data processing, and analytical pipelines for data warehouses and relational databases.
• Proficient in object-oriented/object function scripting languages: Python, Java, C++, Scala, etc.
• Experienced in translating business requirements to scalable technical solutions.
• Experienced in performing advanced statistical analysis using the latest analytical tools (Machine learning, Artificial Intelligence).
• Experience in SQL Server Integration Services, Azure Data Factory, SAS, Tableau, R, and Jupyter Notebooks is highly desired.