City Of New York

Director, Data Platform Engineering, Bureau of Data Technology & Strategy

City Of New York$120K — $150K *
Education, Government & Non-Profit
5 - 7 years of experience
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Qualifications

  • Professional/Vendor Certification(s) in database administration required.
  • Bachelor's degree in a related field and two years of database administration experience or equivalent.
  • Six years of IT experience with at least two years in database administration accepted with a high school diploma.
  • Strong understanding of database design, configuration, and maintenance is essential.
  • Experience with data security management and performance monitoring required.

Responsibilities

  • Develop and manage integration pipelines to support agency initiatives.
  • Design and implement CI/CD-enabled data pipelines for automated updates.
  • Manage access and permissions for EDP resources.
  • Oversee development processes for datalake integration.
  • Advise on governance and permissioning in the datalake environment.
  • Lead communication and planning for stakeholder projects.

Benefits

  • Premium-free health insurance saving employees over $10K annually.
  • Defined benefit pension plan for stable retirement income.
  • Tax-deferred savings program available.
  • Robust Worksite Wellness Program promoting employee health.
  • Possibility to work from home up to two days a week.
Full Job Description
*Amended*

Open to candidates who are permanent or to those who successfully filed for the Cert IT Administrator (Database) Ex No. 6033 within the filing period of May 7, 2026- May 27, 2026

Job Description:

The Center for Population Health Data Science (CPHDS)- launched in October of 2023- aims to catalyze critical data modernization work and enable the agency to make progress toward linking
public health, healthcare, and social service for timely and effective publication. We are working towards making these data more accessible, timely, equitable, meaningfully usable, and protected - and actively used to protect and promote the health and wellbeing of New Yorkers. We aim to strengthen agencywide data capabilities by empowering our workforce, enhancing intra- and inter-agency data sharing, and using modern technology to yield trusted and integrated data and insights. A real-time and comprehensive view of city needs is needed to enhance public health actions and improve health outcomes for the most vulnerable New Yorkers. The CPHDS is working to strengthen citywide population health surveillance by better linking public health, healthcare, and social service data to fully characterize and improve the health of New Yorkers. Our vision is for these data to be accessible, timely, equitable, meaningfully usable, and protected in order to protect and promote health and wellbeing of New Yorkers. The Bureau of Data Technology and Strategy (DTS) is dedicated to the development of the Enterprise Data Platform (EDP) and is home to data strategy, data governance, data product management, data engineering, and data science capabilities. The Applied Data Science and Solutions unit within DTS oversees a number of mission critical agency projects including the Master Patient Index project, the Client Engagement Platform project, the Whole Genome Sequencing project, and various interoperability projects to support Disease surveillance systems. The unit also provides analytical support for ad hoc analyses and admin support for the Enterprise Data Platform.

Duties will include but not be limited to:

-Develop, manage, and build integration pipelines across environments to support multiple agency initiatives.
-Design and implement CI/CD-enabled data pipelines to automate and manage the promotion of updates across development, staging, and production environments.
-Design and implement mechanisms for managing access and permissions for EDP resources.
-Oversee development of datalake integration processes.
-Advise and implement governance and permissioning in datalake environment.
-Lead communication, planning, and coordination among stakeholders for projects.

Preferred Skills:

-5 or more years of Python experience
-5 or more years of SQL development experience
-5 or more years of business intelligence experience
-3 or more years of system admin experience
-3 or more years of datalake experience
-3 or more years of cloud development work

- Benefits: City employees are entitled to unmatched benefits such as:
o a premium-free health insurance plan that saves employees over $10K annually, per a 2024 assessment.
o additional health, fitness, and financial benefits may be available based on the position's associated union/benefit fund.
o a public sector defined benefit pension plan with steady monthly payments in retirement.
o a tax-deferred savings program and
o a robust Worksite Wellness Program that offers resources and opportunities to keep you healthy while serving New Yorkers.
- Work From Home Policy: Depending on your position, you may be able to work up to two days during the week from home.
- Job Security - you could enjoy more job security compared to private sector employment and be able to contribute to making NYC a healthy place to live and work.

CERT IT ADMINISTRATOR (DB) - 13644

Qualifications

Professional/Vendor Certification(s) in database administration that is required for the position to be filled. In addition, you must have one of the following:
1. A baccalaureate degree from an accredited college or university, and two years of satisfactory fulltime (not classroom based) experience in database administration. Experience must include database design, configuration, installation, troubleshooting, integration, performance monitoring, maintenance, enhancement, and security management;

2. A four-year high school diploma or its educational equivalent and six years of satisfactory full-time (not classroom based) information technology experience (IT) of which at least two years must have been database administration experience as described in "1" above; OR

3. A satisfactory equivalent of education and/or experience equivalent to "1" or "2" above. Undergraduate education may be substituted for experience on the basis that 30 undergraduate semester credits from
an accredited college or university is equivalent to 6 months of information technology experience, but may not be substituted for the required database administration experience. A masters degree in computer science or a related field from an accredited college or university may substitute for one year of database administration experience. However, all candidates must have at least one year of satisfactory full-time (not classroom based) database administration experience as described in "1" above.

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