Health Data Analytics Engineer – Pipelines & Governance

State of New York - Health, Department of; City of Albany (NY); On-site; USD 91,000 - 115,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Holiday & Paid Time Off

Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF)

Pension from New York State Employees'

Shift & Geographic pay differentials

Affordable Health Care options

Family dental and vision benefits at a

NY 529 and NY ABLE College Savings

NYS Deferred Compensation plan

Job summary

The Department of Health for the State of New York is hiring a Data Analyst 2 to support the Center for Health Data Innovation in the Data Engineering Unit. This onsite role will help create and run analytics engineering solutions that support healthcare and public health policy and decision-making.

You will focus on building and operating enterprise data pipelines, contributing to data governance standards, and improving internal processes so they scale reliably.

Qualifications

• Seven years of experience in data visualization, statistical models, and data mining tools.
• Proficiency in Python, SQL, dbt, and Git.
• Strong SQL skills and the ability to write efficient queries (experience with Snowflake, Redshift, or BigQuery is preferred).
• Proven experience in data analytics, data engineering, or related roles, preferably in the Health Data domain, including modern data pipelines and data warehousing platforms.
• Ability to quickly learn new methods and technologies.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with Product Managers to gather technical requirements and run project scoping sessions with subject matter experts and stakeholders to define data needs.
• Work with analysts to design value-focused pipelines, including data integrations and transformations, model feature development, and statistical models.
• Maintain standards for data reliability, data integrity, and data governance to support accurate, consistent, and trustworthy datasets, business intelligence products, and analyses.
• Identify, design, and implement internal process improvements such as automating manual workflows, optimizing data delivery, and redesigning infrastructure for increased scalability.

Skills

Python

SQL

dbt

Git

Data visualization

Statistical models

Data mining tools

Problem solving

Education

Bachelor's degree may substitute for four years of general experience

Tools

Airflow

Docker

Terraform

Snowflake

Redshift

BigQuery

Job description

The Department of Health for the State of New York is hiring a Data Analyst 2 to support the Center for Health Data Innovation in the Data Engineering Unit. This onsite role will help create and run analytics engineering solutions that support healthcare and public health policy and decision-making.

You will focus on building and operating enterprise data pipelines, contributing to data governance standards, and improving internal processes so they scale reliably.