Data Engineer
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The New York City Taxi and Limousine Commission (TLC) is the City agency responsible for regulating forhire transportation in New York City including taxis street hail liveries highvolume forhire services such as Uber and Lyft black cars luxury limousines livery vehicles commuter vans and paratransit vehicles. The TLC licenses about 180000 drivers 118000 vehicles and 1000 businesses which together transport more than a million passengers a day making TLC the most active forhire transportation regulatory agency in the world with oversight of a key component of the Citys transportation network. With the introduction of new apps and technologies TLC is on the front lines of a rapidly changing mobility landscape and our innovative effortswhether regulating driver pay ensuring wheelchair accessibility working to eliminate traffic fatalities or preventing discriminatory serviceoften serve as a model for other cities.
We are looking for a motivated Data Engineer to join our Data Analytics Unit within the Policy Division. Youll be working with large datasets including detailed trip data for every taxi and forhire vehicle in New York City. The Data Engineer will work closely with other team members to understand the teams ongoing data ingestion and processes. This role is crucial in processing and analyzing billions of trip records requiring expertise in big data technologies and distributed computing. The data includes detailed information on passenger wait times pickup and dropoff locations minutelevel breadcrumb pings passenger costs and driver pay.
Were seeking a Data Engineer who is excited to work with big data to help shape transportation policy in NYC. You will manage our data pipelines enhance data governance and bridge the gap between modern cloudbased solutions and legacy systems. Your work will involve building and maintaining the data and the technologies which are tied to our teams ongoing projects such as traffic congestion fare regulation driver pay vehicle electrification and charging infrastructure.
As a Data Engineer on our team you will be performing the following tasks:
Design implement and maintain scalable data pipelines.
Own internal data validations and documentation processes along with the data engineering team.
Collaborate with data analysts and policy researchers on a variety of projects including translating business and policy requirements into data schemas and models.
Develop and maintain tools for automating and modernizing our data processes.
Liaise with other departments to bridge gaps in existing processes and tools.
Track test develop and deploy code.
Analyze existing analytics code modularizing and refactoring code where needed.
Troubleshoot and complex data issues and implement robust solutions.
Qualifications :
1. For Assignment Level I (only physical biological and environmental sciences and public health) A masters degree from an accredited college or university with a specialization in an appropriate field of physical biological or environmental science or in public health.
To be appointed to Assignment Level II and above candidates must have:
1. A doctorate degree from an accredited college or university with specialization in an appropriate field of physical biological environmental or social science and one year of fulltime experience in a responsible supervisory administrative or research capacity in the appropriate field of specialization; or
2. A masters degree from an accredited college or university with specialization in an appropriate field of physical biological environmental or social science and three years of responsible fulltime research experience in the appropriate field of specialization; or
3. Education and/or experience which is equivalent to 1 or 2 above. However all candidates must have at least a masters degree in an appropriate field of specialization and at least two years of experience described in 2 above. Two years as a City Research Scientist Level I can be substituted for the experience required in 1 and 2 above.
NOTE:
Probationary Period
Appointments to this position are subject to a minimum probationary period of one year.
Additional Information :
The City of New York is an inclusive equal opportunity employer committed to recruiting and retaining a diverse workforce and providing a work environment that is free from discrimination and harassment based upon any legally protected status or protected characteristic including but not limited to an individuals sex race color ethnicity national origin age religion disability sexual orientation veteran status gender identity or pregnancy.
Remote Work :
No
Employment Type :
Fulltime
Employment Type
Full-time
