About the Role
The NYS Digital Service team at the Office of General Services (OGS) seeks a creative and self-driven professional to serve as a Data Engineer. The Public Information Specialist 2 will function as the Data Engineer and will lead the data collection and integration efforts for the digital and customer experience projects. They will be an important contributor to the rollout and implementation of the Universal Data and Analytics Program in New York State.
The Data Solutions Specialist will play a crucial role in the collection, transformation, and analytics and digital campaign data. This role will be responsible for developing and optimizing data storage solutions, organizing data, and establishing processes to ensure data quality and accuracy. This position focuses on technical support, system development, data management, and ensuring access to accurate and relevant data.
The ideal candidate is a strategic thinker with a data-focused, continuous improvement mindset with expertise in SQL, and experience with cloud-based data platforms.
Everyday Impact at NYS Digital Service
The NYS Digital Service is a team of strategists, product managers and technologists working with agencies to streamline and improve the digital experience across New York State. We strive to create a community that works together to provide programs and services to New Yorkers in an efficient and user-friendly way.
Key Responsibilities:
- Manage digital product’s data lifecycle from identifying business needs through technical solutioning to implementation.
- Work under the direction of the Data Director to build, research, propose, or evaluate a tech/digital solution or data strategy.
- Design, develop, and maintain scalable data pipelines and data manipulations (ETL/ELT) processes to support data collection and processing.
- Collaborate with data analysts and program managers to understand data requirements and provide necessary data support.
- Provision required software/product infrastructure in support of data collection, storage and processing.
- Assist in building technology solutions, alter or adapt common libraries to unique project needs, and/or contribute to a NYS Web Design System or Digital Utilities Library.
This position can be Albany or New York City based.
You Bring to NYS Digital Service
- Demonstrable familiarity with digital and web analytics platforms including Google Analytics, Siteimprove, Qualtrics, or others.
- Proficiency in core web languages including HTML, CSS, and Javascript.
- Understanding of web content management systems
- Experience working with data from a variety of sources, including API endpoints, streaming and relational databases.
- Proficiency in SQL for querying and data transformation.
- Familiarity with cloud-based data platforms (open-source Google BigQuery, AWS Redshift). Ability to identify low cost or open-source storage solutions that will meet the needs of the organization in the short and long term.
- Expertise in requirements analysis, data architecture, and ETL/ELT frameworks.
- Strong analytical skills with the ability to manage and analyze large datasets while maintaining attention to detail.
- Ability to collaborate with others and work within a fast-paced environment.
- Experience working with multiple internal and external stakeholders to understand business needs.
- Creative thinker with strong communication and problem-solving skills.
Minimum Qualifications
A bachelor’s degree in media, new media, English, communications, journalism, broadcasting, public relations, films, TV productions, or digital marketing in writing or AND three years of experience in public or governmental relations, and/or producing content for various media;
OR
A master’s degree in media, new media, English, communications, journalism, broadcasting, public relations, films, TV productions, and digital marketing AND two years of experience in public or governmental relations, and/or in writing or producing content for various media;
OR
Seven years of the experience described above.
Apply
This position can be Albany or New York City based. Please apply via the official New York State Job site.