Salary : $88,765.46 - $155,339.60 Annually
Location : HERRITY BUILDING (B-2), 12055 GOVERNMENT CENTER PKWY, FAIRFAX (EJ26), VA
Job Type: FT Salary W BN
Job Number: 26-01152
Department: Park Authority
Opening Date: 08/01/2026
Closing Date: 8/14/2026 11:59 PM Eastern
Pay Grade: S29
Posting Type: Open to General Public

Job Announcement

Under limited supervision of the IT Program Manager, serves as the senior developer and administrator for the Park Authority's data warehouse. Defines requirements, designs, develops, tests, debugs, and maintains the agency's data warehouse, associated system interfaces, and business intelligence solutions. Ensures data integrity, availability, security, and reliable backups are performed. Facilitates data sharing with remote systems and agency transactional systems. Plans, evaluates, and implements new database systems or upgrades to existing solutions that enhance operational and administrative functionality for the agency. Meets with customers to determine system needs during implementations, system upgrades, or enhancements. Ensures data within the data warehouse is structured appropriately for use in agency business intelligence tools and reports. Maintains database technology refresh schedule for the agency. Creates and maintains data governance policies and best practices for the agency. Maintains appropriate access to sensitive or legally protected data. Organizes, prepares, and maintains system documentation. Provides technical support to users and responds to ad hoc data requests.

Key Responsibilities

• Manages database and data architecture by designing, implementing, and optimizing storage solutions, including schemas, partitioning, indexing, and data modeling to balance performance, scalability, and cost for transactional and analytical workloads.
• Defines requirements, designs, develops, tests, debugs, and maintains the agency's data warehouse and associated system interfaces to data sources.
• Designs, builds, and maintains ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) pipelines using orchestration tools (e.g., Apache Airflow, Azure Data Factory, FME Form) and big data frameworks (e.g., Spark, Hadoop) to transport raw data from multiple sources into a centralized data warehouse.
• Collaborates with business analysts, data analysts, GIS analysts, and subject matter experts to design and provide optimized datasets to meet agency business needs and enable data-informed decision making.
• Creates and maintains data governance policies and best practices in accordance with the Department of Information Technology (DIT) to ensure consistency across agencies. Writes agency policy and best practice documentation that determines data design, data quality, data transformation, data retention, data sharing and data security standards, in alignment with enterprise standards set by DIT.
• Ensures data quality and adherence to data governance and security policies through validation rules, monitoring, and database design. Ensures compliance with all regulatory frameworks such as GDPR and HIPAA.
• Performs other duties as required to support business intelligence and data efforts.

Illustrative Duties

(The illustrative duties listed in this specification are representative of the class but are not an all-inclusive list. A complete list of position duties and unique physical requirements can be found in the position job description.)

• Mentors the work of lower-level data analysis, providing work counseling, guidance, and training as needed;
• Develops data standards, analytic schemas, and complex data models to ensure complete, correct, accessible and shareable data for information technology development projects;
• Gathers and documents business data, information, physical, and analytics requirements;
• Develops logical business models;
• Prepares physical database design and consolidation, standardization, cleansing, migration, or upload of data;
• Assists with planning and facilitating user requirement sessions for data analysis, data standardization, and data ownership;
• Analyzes business forms, reports, processes, practices, and procedures;
• Designs reporting schemas and data models of moderate to advanced scope and complexity Identifies and documents data subject areas, data entities, attributes, relationships, information types, domains, and constraints;
• Develops structured diagrams, including data flow, entity life cycle, hierarchy, entity/relationships, conceptual schemas, and association matrix diagrams;
• Assesses disparate databases for streamlining, standardization, and consolidation opportunities, designing appropriate schemas to enable modernization or optimization;
• Assists with identifying physical implementation requirements such as denormalization, data types, defaults, keys, transformations, referential integrity, and screen/script mapping;
• Assists with coordinating the development of shared information assets including logical data standards, definition standards, domain, and type standards, and with the resolution of related conflicts;
• Provides key input to the development of the corporate information architecture, policies, and methodologies;
• Maintains metadata, schemas, data repositories, and data dictionaries;
• Assists with the selection, implementation, guidance and training of data administration practices, data access and CASE tools;
• Designs and runs database queries to assess or validate data;
• Performs data cleansing and transformations to assess data quality;
• Supports data testing and analysis for initiatives of high complexity;
• Attends training workshops, product demonstrations, conferences, technical briefings, and conventions;
• Serves on committees and task forces;
• Undertakes special projects;
• Stays abreast of technology changes;
• Provides assistance to other staff, as needed.

Required Knowledge Skills and Abilities

(The knowledge, skills and abilities listed in this specification are representative of the class but are not an all-inclusive list.)

• Considerable knowledge of information systems and the components that process data; Considerable knowledge of the principles, practices, and methods related to information architecture;
• Considerable knowledge of data administration areas such as policies and standards, data definition, modeling and logical design, database design, and quality control; Considerable knowledge of data concepts such as syntax, taxonomy, and hierarchy; Considerable knowledge of relational databases (such as Oracle or DB2) Knowledge of business intelligence solutions or data-related CASE and modeling tools;
• Knowledge of data modeling mapping, cleansing, extraction, exchange, manipulation, and load principles;
• Extensive knowledge of business process analysis and redesign;
• Some knowledge of business intelligence and information system design principles;
• Some knowledge of services-oriented architecture, object-oriented application development, data integration, data exchange protocols, or XML schema design;
• Skill in brainstorming, presenting, sharing, discussing, and defending ideas;
• Skill in problem-solving, with appreciation and respect for diversity of differing professional views;
• Skill in leading meeting participants toward consensus;
• Skill in designing and presenting conforming, efficient, and unambiguous models and diagrams of complex reporting and information systems;
• Skill in applying work and ideas to advance enterprise architecture goals and objectives: Ability to establish and maintain effective business relationships;
• Ability to help stakeholders effectively resolve issues related to cross-agency data sharing, usage conflicts, and data inconsistencies;
• Ability to follow special formatting requirements and conventions in work products;
• Ability to establish and maintain appropriate version control over work products; Ability to communicate effectively, both orally and in writing;
• Ability to make use of provided resources and seek guidance as needed;
• Ability to analyze and evaluate administrative processes and procedures for data analysis purposes;
• Ability to conduct research into new information technology;
• Ability to prepare essential task deliverable and documentation;
• Ability to translate technical terminology into simple language and concepts;
• Ability to train employees in the use of data access tools.

Employment Standards

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:

(Click on the aforementioned link to learn how Fairfax County interprets equivalencies for "Any combination, experience, and training equivalent to")
Graduation from an accredited four-year college or university with a degree in Information Technology, Information Systems, Computer Science, Business Administration, or related field and coursework in analytics, biosystematics, biology, information architecture, engineering, library science, statistics, sociology, demographics, and/or marketing, Plus five years analysis of data and information experience in an academic, data administration, or business data analytics environment that involves using data modeling, database consolidation, ad hoc query, or business intelligence tools, relational databases, metadata, XML schema design, and/or taxonomy.

CERTIFICATES AND LICENSES REQUIRED:
Driver's License (Required)

NECESSARY SPECIAL REQUIREMENT:
The appointee to the position will be required to complete a criminal background check and driving record check to the satisfaction of the employer.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• 3-5+ years working in data warehousing or database development and maintenance.
• Strong experience with ETL tools and experience building and optimizing data pipelines.
• Experience with transactional database platforms (SQL Server, Oracle, PostgreSQL)
• Experience with cloud data warehousing platforms (e.g., Snowflake, AWS Redshift, Azure Synapse, Google BigQuery).
• Experience with governance frameworks, lineage, and metadata management.
• Proven collaboration skills with analytics/AI teams, including query optimization and dataset preparation.
• Excellent technical communication, problem-solving, and organizational skills.
• Experience in public sector or large-scale data environments.

PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS:
Mostly sedentary with walking and lifting up to 10 lbs. All duties may be performed with or without reasonable accommodations.

SELECTION PROCEDURE:Panel interview; may include exercise.

Merit Positions

Fairfax County is proud to offer employees an attractive and comprehensive benefits program, including the following:

• Medical/Vision/Dental Insurance Coverage
• Group Term Life Insurance
• Long Term Disability
• LiveWell Program
• Flexible Spending Programs
• Paid Leave (annual, sick, parental, volunteer activity, and more!)
• Paid Holidays
• Deferred Compensation
• Employee Assistance Program
• Employees' Child Care Center
• Continuous Learning Opportunities

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NOTE: Fairfax County Government is a qualifying employer under the Public Service Loan Forgiveness program. For more information about the PSLF program:

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Non-Merit Positions

1. Non-Merit Benefit Eligible: scheduled to work a minimum 1,040 hours and no more than a maximum of 1,560 hours in a calendar year.
   • Medical/Vision/Dental Insurance Coverage
   • Flexible Spending Program
   • Deferred Compensation
2. Temporary: scheduled to work a maximum of 900 hours in a calendar year.
   • No benefits

01

What is the highest level of education that you have completed?

• Less than 12th grade
• High school diploma or GED
• Some college
• Associate's degree
• Bachelor's degree
• Master's degree
• Doctorate degree

02

If you answered "Some college" for the highest level of education completed, please indicate the number of quarter or semester hours you have completed towards a degree.

• Less than 45 quarter hours
• 45 to less than 90 quarter hours
• 90 to less than 135 quarter hours
• 135 to less than 180 quarter hours
• 180 or more quarter hours
• Less than 30 semester hours
• 30 to less than 60 semester hours
• 60 to less than 90 semester hours
• 90 to less than 120 semester hours
• 120 or more semester hours
• Not applicable

03

Please indicate the major(s) or minor(s) for your completed degree(s). Check all that apply.

• Information Technology
• Information