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Job Description:

IT Data Analyst Senior

Purpose:

IT Data Analyst Seniors are responsible for leading identification, capture, analysis, and management of City IT and department data. Through data conceptualization, modeling, and presentation, IT Data Analyst Seniors lead City departments and leaderships to answer questions and solve pressing City problems. Additionally, this position empowers end-users to use data in their decision-making process through education, innovative dashboards, relevant data representation, and through development of new services / products / solutions for users.

Duties, Functions and Responsibilities:

Essential duties and functions, pursuant to the Americans with Disabilities Act, may include the following. Other related duties may be assigned.

• Designs, creates, and maintains relational databases and data systems.
• Collaborates with City IT analysts to identify data issues and prioritize improvements.
• Informs solution design and improvements to meet data quality goals.
• Leads and oversees data classification and data-mining activities to enable more accurate analysis.
• Determines necessary actions required to generate and publishes open data on the City’s open data portal.
• Creates data visualizations and reports to present to audiences using presentation tools.
• Creates standards and patterns for data distribution and retention.
• Implements statistical models to identify and reveal trends, patterns, and relationships in data to provide guidance to others for decision making processes.
• Enables access to City and external data sources.
• Suggests analytics opportunities and best practices.
• Contributes to management of central data stores and metadata to establish quality expectations.
• Identifies opportunities to increase data quality, including automation and data entry procedural training.
• Creates and implements techniques for data collection, accuracy and management.

Responsibilities - Supervisor and/or Leadership Exercised:

May provide leadership, work assignments, evaluation, training, and guidance to others.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

Must possess required knowledge, skills, abilities, and experience and be able to explain and demonstrate, with or without reasonable accommodations, that the essential functions of the job can be performed.

• Knowledge of data integration tools, data management architectures such as Data Warehouse, Data Lake, Data Hub Management, and data exploration techniques (binning, pivoting, summarizing, and finding correlations).
• Knowledge of analytics, visualization and business intelligence tools.
• Knowledge of data structures, patterns and data models and related industry-standard methodologies.
• Knowledge of Source-to-Target Mapping, Extract-Transform-Load (ETL) processing and Change Data Capture (CDC) concepts.
• Knowledge of statistical software, database queries and programming languages (e.g., Java, C++, Scala, SQL, Hive, Python and R), XML, JSON and XSD’s.
• Knowledge of Big Data concepts, frameworks, products, and tools.
• Knowledge of data models and structures as well as database design tools (e.g., Visio, SQL, tec.)
• Skill in data modeling, database and data management, SQL coding, data warehousing, reporting, data warehousing, relational databases, and data integrity skills.
• Skill in data analysis, data visualization, data mining, reporting, and data integrity skills.
• Ability to clearly communicate technical concepts with clients to increase their understanding of their operations.
• Ability to consider and incorporate the implications of analysis into recommendations for business decisions.
• Ability to see the big picture and make decisions based on strategy and value delivered.
• Ability to turn data insights into recommendations for both clients and internal stakeholders based on context.
• Ability to adhere to required compliance to all change management policies and procedures.
• Ability to adhere to required compliance to all information security policies and procedures.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Graduation with a Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university with major course work in a field related to the job plus four (4) years of experience.
• Experience may substitute for education for up to (4) years.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Proficiency using visualization platforms such as Power BI, Tableau.

• Knowledge of statistical models and principles.

• Hands-on experience using cloud-based platforms and services (e.g., Azure Data Lake, AWS, or Google Cloud) for scalable and secure data.

• Advanced skills in programming languages such as Python, R, or SQL.

• Experience with relational and modern databases.

• Experience with data integration and ETL processes.

• Experience leading data-related projects.

• Strong experience in translating analysis findings into presentations for executive-level audiences.

Other:

• Ability to travel to more than one work location.

Notes to Candidate:

This position is within Austin Energy’s Data Office. The Data Office is Austin Energy's dedicated hub for advancing data management, analysis, and business intelligence strategies.

By fostering a culture of data-driven decision-making, the Data Office empowers our organization to harness the full potential of our data assets. As a key component of our commitment to excellence, innovation, and operational efficiency, the Data Office plays a pivotal role in shaping the utility's future through the strategic collection, secure storage, insightful analysis, and effective utilization of data.

The successful candidate will contribute their expertise and insights to further elevate Austin Energy's data management capabilities and advance our organization's data-driven initiatives.

Essential duties / functions, may include (but not limited to) the following:

• Perform advanced data analysis to extract actionable insights.
• Utilize statistical analysis and data mining techniques.
• Design, create, and maintain relational databases and data systems.
• Develop and maintain data models to support data analysis.
• Create interactive data visualizations and dashboards BI using tools.
• Lead data profiling and cleansing efforts to ensure high data quality.
• Implement and use statistical models to identify data trends / patterns.
• Conduct predictive analysis to support strategic decision-making.
• Lead and manage data-related projects, ensuring timely project delivery.
• Create data visualizations and reports to present findings.

Pay Range:

Entry: $80,490.00 - Mid: $102,200.00

Schedule:

Monday - Friday: 8:00AM - 5:00PM - 40 Hour Work Week (Additional work hours may be required to support the 24-hour Utility operations, which may include evenings, weekends, holidays, inclement weather and emergency closures).

Location:

Austin Energy HQ - 4815 Mueller Blvd., Austin, Texas 78723 ​

Working with Austin Energy provides a number of health and welfare benefits such as low-cost medical, dental, vision, paid leave time, a highly competitive retirement plan, career development opportunities and more. Please click HERE for more information.

WHEN COMPLETING THE CITY OF AUSTIN APPLICATION:

The City of Austin employment application is an official document; incomplete applications will not be considered. Please be sure that your application is a reflection of your entire work history. A detailed, complete application is required, and applicants must include on their Employment Record all experience (work and/or volunteer) related to this job posting – up to 10 years or more; this will be used to determine your base compensation. Employment Record dates must include month and year. Verification of employment history dates on resume should match online Employment Application. Statements such as “See Resume” will not be accepted, and a resume alone will not be accepted in lieu of a complete online application. Please note that Austin Energy may close the job posting at any time after 7 days from the date of the initial advertisement. Once the job posting has closed, applications cannot be changed.

Important Note to Applicants:

Please be aware that the Job Posting Close Date reflects the final day to apply, but the posting will close at 11:59 PM the day before the date listed. All application steps, including attachments and submission, must be fully completed before that time. We also recommend that you save or print a copy of the job posting for your records. Once a posting has closed, it will no longer be viewable in the system. The responses to the supplemental questions must reference the employment history listed in the employment history section. Once the requisition has closed, the application cannot be changed to update work history, supplemental questions, or any other information. We reserve the right to verify high school and college education for top candidate(s). If you have any questions regarding your City of Austin employment application, please use the official website of the City of Austin as reference. www.austintexas.gov.

VETERAN INTERVIEW PREFERENCE:

Military/Veterans must provide a copy of their DD214 verifying honorable discharge, at the time of initial interview to receive military/veteran interview preference.

CRIMINAL HISTORY BACKGROUND CHECK:

This position requires a criminal and NERC background investigation.

FAIR LABOR STANDARDS ACT:

This position is classified as EXEMPT and may require to work additional hours outside of the normal schedule to include nights, weekends, and /or holidays.

TRAVEL:

If you are selected for this position and meet the Driver Safety Standards in the City of Austin Driver Safety Program, you may drive when necessary to multiple locations as part of your regular job duties. Otherwise, you are responsible for getting to and from these locations.

WORK SCHEDULE:

This has been designated as an Essential Employee position. In the event of a City designated emergency, Essential Employees provide services that impact the public health, safety, utility services, and welfare of members of the Austin community and other employees and ensure the continuity of essential operations.

In such an emergency, Essential Employees may be called back in, may be required to modify their schedule, may be assigned to a City-designated work site, or may be retained on site to assist with operations and recovery.

“A valid work authorization that does not require sponsorship of a visa for employment authorization in the U.S. is required for this position.”

EEO Statement for City of Austin:

The City of Austin will not discriminate against any applicant or employee based on race, creed, color, national origin, sex, gender identity, age, religion, veteran status, disability, or sexual orientation. In addition, the City will not discriminate in employment decisions on the basis of an individual's AIDS, AIDS Related Complex, or HIV status; nor will the City discriminate against individuals who are perceived to be at risk of HIV infection, or who associate with individuals who are believed to be at risk.

City of Austin is committed to compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act. If you require reasonable accommodation during the application process or have a question regarding an essential job function, please call (512) 974-3210 or Texas Relay by dialing 7-1-1.