Senior Data Products & Analytics Lead

City of New York; New York (NY); On-site; USD 75,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

City of New York’s NYCHA IT department seeks a Lead, Data Products and Analytics to bridge business needs with the data engineering team. You will define data requirements, validate data products, and help departments leverage trusted datasets for reporting and decision making.

Responsibilities include building Power BI data models, establishing standards for reports, expanding self-service access, ensuring data quality and security across resident, lease, and financial data.

Qualifications

• A baccalaureate degree from an accredited college in computer science, engineering, human computer interaction, interactive media, data visualization, communication or a related field, and four years of satisfactory full-time experience related to the area(s) required by the particular position and a specialization in a relevant technology, process, methodology and/or domain; or
• An associate degree from an accredited college in computer science, engineering, human computer interaction, interactive media, digital and graphics design, data visualization, communication or a related field, and six years of satisfactory full-time experience related to the area(s) required by the particular position and a specialization in a relevant technology, process, methodology and/or domain; or
• A baccalaureate degree from an accredited college, and eight years of satisfactory full-time experience related to the area(s) required by the particular position and a specialization in a relevant technology, process, methodology and/or domain; or
• Education and/or experience which is equivalent to "1", "2", or "3" above.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the primary IT point of contact for business departments on data and analytics needs; translate business questions into clear requirements for data sets, metrics, and reports.
• Assess solution data and analytics requests received through intake process; recommend whether each is met through existing certified data, an enhancement, or a new data product.
• Work with a designated business owner in each area to establish agreed definitions for key terms and metrics, such as household, active lease, and overdue recertification.
• Work with staff who know NYCHA source systems to document what resident, tenancy, rent, and recertification data means and where it resides.
• Write specifications for curated data sets to be built by IT data engineers; help prioritize which data areas are built first based on business value.
• Test and validate delivered data against source systems and business expectations before release.
• Identify data quality problems, report them to source system owners, and track them to resolution.
• Support data classification so that sensitive resident information is identified and protected before access is opened.
• Build and certify Power BI data models that departments can use to create their own reports.
• Establish standards for certified reports, metric definitions, and data catalog documentation.
• Train and support analysts in business departments and build a community of practice across NYCHA.
• Expand self-service access to certified data for business departments.
• Conduct analyses that draw on data across systems, such as repair activity by household and development, and present findings in plain language to Executive staff and non-technical audiences.
• Partner with the data engineering lead to build and maintain reusable data products.
• Contribute to the design and testing of NYCHA's data platform.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Education

Baccalaureate degree in computer science, engineering, human computer interaction, interactive media, data visualization, or related field

Associate degree with six years of related experience

Bachelor's degree with eight years of related experience

Education and/or experience equivalent to above

Tools

Power BI

Job description

City of New York’s NYCHA IT department seeks a Lead, Data Products and Analytics to bridge business needs with the data engineering team. You will define data requirements, validate data products, and help departments leverage trusted datasets for reporting and decision making.

Responsibilities include building Power BI data models, establishing standards for reports, expanding self-service access, ensuring data quality and security across resident, lease, and financial data.