Pay Range: $89,164 - $115,914
Job Posting Closing on: November 8, 2024
Workdays & Hours: Monday – Friday 8am – 5pm; Some evening/weekend work required.
Benefits for this position include: 11 Paid Holidays, Medical, Dental, Vision, Paid Time Off, Pension Plan, Professional Development Opportunities, and much more.
The City of Fort Worth is one of the fastest growing large cities in the U.S. Our employees serve the needs of nearly 1,000,000 residents, promoting our values of exceptional customer experience, mutual respect, embracing our diversity, continuous improvement, ethical behavior, and accountability.
A Senior Data Science Analyst job is available with the City of Fort Worth FWLab. The Data Analytics division of FWLab delves into large sets of data to extract meaningful insights and identify trends. Utilizing advanced statistical, computational, and visualization tools, they assist in decision-making and enhance operational efficiency. Their findings often drive business strategies, optimize processes, and pinpoint areas of improvement or opportunity.
Minimum Qualifications
- BS in Mathematics, Economics, Business Administration, Public Administration, Computer Science, Information Management, Physics or Statistics, or a related field
- Four (4) years of performing financial or data analysis experience required
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience with machine learning and artificial intelligence tools (e.g., Kubeflow, MLflow, TFX, Docker, Kubernetes)
- Experience with modern data stack (e.g., Fivetran/Apache Airflow, dbt, Snowflake/BigQuery/RedShift, S3/Azure Data Lake)
- Knowledge of software development practices (e.g., Git), unit testing and integration testing.
- Advanced problem solving, conceptual thinking, teamwork, and interpersonal relation skills
- Experience with data visualization and business intelligence tools (e.g., Tableau, Power BI, Looker)
- Experience with programming tools (e.g., Python, R, Julia, Java, Rust), query language (e.g., SQL)
- Experience with big data technologies (e.g., Spark, Flink, Kafka, Hadoop)
- Experience with ETL pipelines (e.g., GitHub Actions, Jenkins)
- Skills in data management and systems, experience working with big data
The Senior Data Science Analyst job responsibilities include:
- Develops and implements data analysis strategies to solve complex business problems, leveraging advanced statistical, machine learning, and predictive modeling techniques.
- Creates and communicates insightful data visualizations to stakeholders, ensuring complex data is presented clearly and effectively.
- Interprets department business needs and translates them into actionable insights, application designs, and operational requirements to drive data-driven decisions.
- Coordinates and analyzes data from multiple departments to identify opportunities for enhancing departmental operations and performance through data-driven decision-making and process improvements.
- Develops and maintains performance-monitoring tools and dashboards for tracking and optimizing key metrics, ensuring continuous evaluation of performance goals.
- Designs, produces, and automates both standard and customized reports for statistical analysis, operational planning, and strategic decision-making, using modern data visualization tools and programming languages.
- Collaborates with end-users to gather and refine requirements for data projects, creating detailed business requirement documents, and conducting follow-up meetings to ensure alignment with business goals and data availability.
- Performs exploratory data analysis, hypothesis testing, and advanced data mining techniques to uncover trends and patterns in historical data, providing actionable recommendations to improve departmental performance.
Conditions of Employment
The City of Fort Worth is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. It is the policy and practice of the City to recruit, hire, train and promote a diverse workforce without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy and gender identity), national origin, political affiliation, sexual orientation, marital status, disability, genetic information, age, membership in an employee organization, parental status, military service, or another non-merit factor.
The City of Fort Worth is committed to full compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable qualified individuals with disabilities to participate in the job application or interview process and to perform essential job functions.
Candidates who do not meet the Education requirement, may be considered if they have more relevant work experience than the position requires. Those selected for employment will be required to pass Pre-Employment checks depending on the position requirements. Those could include, but are not limited to: criminal background check, drug screen, education verification, etc. criminal convictions will be considered on a case-by-case basis. Employees are paid by direct deposit only.
