Job description

Role: Data Engineer

Location: NYC, NY/hybrid

Duration; Long term

Description

We seek to have an impact by proactively reaching individual residents and helping them access services for which they are eligible. We use innovative public awareness and grassroots organizing techniques; assign teams of experienced outreach specialists to help residents find and receive resources available with a particular focus on vulnerable, low-income residents. Complemented by building broad awareness campaigns, the program has built a strong model that has been applied to a variety of unique challenges enabling governments to change the way in which their constituents receive service.

Tasks & Duties

Building and managing mission-critical data workflows for core teams and special projects across multiple front-end and back-end environments including AWS Redshift, Salesforce, NGP VAN, Airtable, etc.

Identifying opportunities for automation of routine processes and coordinating with teammates and partner agencies to implement automation.

Building and maintaining data lake to ensure data team members (and the teams they support) have access to standardized, up-to-date data to inform outreach, analyze results, and shape programming and partner agency policy.

Supporting analysts in developing routine and special reports to clearly articulate program outputs and impact to a wide variety of audiences using a range of data visualizations, tables, and maps.

Working with Data & Analytics staff to collaborate with other city agencies and organizations to utilize new technological resources, encourage data sharing, and teach best practices for outreach.