Civic Data Analyst: Driving Sustainable Mobility Analytics

Jobtailor; United States; On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Alta seeks a data analytics professional to serve as a technical expert across disciplines, developing repeatable analyses in Python, R, and GIS to advance place-based sustainable transportation solutions.

You will foster an entrepreneurial approach through staff training, tool development, and web applications while collaborating with planners, designers, and engineers to deliver scalable mobility insights across the organization.

Qualifications

• Proficiency in Python and/or R, SQL.
• Solid background in data analysis, cross tabulation, and data interpretation.
• Strong understanding of databases, GIS, coding, and transportation planning at an advanced level.
• GIS proficiency with PostGIS, QGIS, ArcGIS Pro.
• Ability to create informative data visualizations through code (D3, ggplot, matplotlib, Plotly, Kepler.gl).
• Experience designing, implementing, and documenting analytical solutions using code.
• Familiarity with data standards like OSM, GTFS, GBFS, GPS, CDS.
• MS Excel, Word, PowerPoint proficiency.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Master’s degrees preferred.
• AICP, Deltek VantagePoint, associations preferred.
• Applied statistics or ML techniques to transportation challenges preferred.
• Web-based analytical deployment familiarity (Flask/Django/FastAPI/Tableau/R-Shiny).

Responsibilities

• Serve as a technical expert and analyst across disciplines, project types, and regions.
• Develop prototypes of repeatable analysis in R, Python, and GIS to advance place-based sustainable transportation solutions.
• Foster entrepreneurial approach to analysis through staff training, research, tool development, and custom web applications.
• Engage across disciplines to understand data analytics needs, priorities, and expectations, fostering a data-informed decision‑making culture.
• Lead the development of new analytical products that align with the firm's objectives and the multidisciplinary nature of the practice.
• Collaborate with planners, designers, and engineers on data analysis and visualization, ensuring scalable mobility insights across the organization.
• Delve into data analysis and visualization components of client projects and R&D with complex methodologies.
• Address mobility and access challenges through innovative analytical solutions, and articulate data-driven narratives via reports and memos.
• Proactively identify labor-intensive processes and automate them to create organization-wide value.
• Work on projects including active transportation plans, safety action plans, complete streets planning, safe routes to school, new mobility plans, and economic benefit studies.

Skills

Python

R

SQL

GIS

Data Visualization

D3

ggplot

Plotly

matplotlib

Kepler.gl

Machine Learning Techniques

Data Analysis

Cross Tabulation

Education

Master's Degree in Urban Planning

Master's Degree in Statistics

Master's Degree in Data Science

Bachelor’s Degree in Statistics/Mathematics/CS or quantitative field

Bachelor’s Degree in Planning/Landscape Architecture/Environmental Sciences/Engineering

Tools

PostGIS

QGIS

ArcGIS Pro

Flask

Django

Tableau

R Shiny

Geopandas

Job description

Alta seeks a data analytics professional to serve as a technical expert across disciplines, developing repeatable analyses in Python, R, and GIS to advance place-based sustainable transportation solutions.

You will foster an entrepreneurial approach through staff training, tool development, and web applications while collaborating with planners, designers, and engineers to deliver scalable mobility insights across the organization.