SENIOR DATA SCIENTIST

Salary : $93,245.98 - $193,851.84 Annually

Location : City of Miami, FL

Job Type : Full-Time

Job Number : 1514-20250113-ORIG

Department : Building

Opening Date : 01 / 13 / 2025

Closing Date : 1 / 24 / 2025 5 : 00 PM Eastern

An Equal Opportunity Employer

Nature of Work

SALARY OFFER WILL BE BASED UPON CANDIDATE'S EXPERIENCE.

This advanced and highly technical role is critical in establishing data-driven decision-making processes within the City of Miami.

The Senior Data Scientist is responsible for leading the design, implementation, and management of the City's data strategy, playing a key role in shaping how data is used to improve city services and operations. The role involves assessing the city's current data landscape, co-designing data architecture, developing data pipelines, and delivering advanced analytics and visualizations for stakeholders. In addition, this position drives the adoption of data governance standards and ensures that the City's data assets are effectively used to generate actionable insights. Work is performed with significant discretion and judgment under minimal supervision and requires both technical expertise and strong analytical capabilities. This position may supervise other professional and technical staff members, as well as third party consultants. Reports to a higher-level administrator.

Essential Functions

• Serves as a subject matter expert for data assets and information management across departments.
• Designs and manages data pipelines, ensuring data is cleaned, transformed, and prepared for analysis.
• Leads the development of advanced analytics, machine learning models, and visualizations that inform key decision-makers on city operations and policies.
• Builds and maintains large scale analytics infrastructure.
• Creates and revises dashboards to provide real-time insights, incorporating feedback from stakeholders to ensure relevance and usability.
• Collaborates with cross-functional teams to improve data flows, ensuring the City's data infrastructure is robust, scalable, and meets operational needs.
• Establishes and maintains data governance practices, ensuring data quality, integrity, and security across all departments.
• Documents data models, flow charts, and reporting schemas to provide a clear blueprint of data operations.
• Leads process improvements through data-driven innovations and contributes to broader city-wide technology strategies.
• Develops performance metrics and key indicators to measure the effectiveness and quality of data-driven projects and initiatives.
• Stays current with industry trends, emerging technologies, and best practices in data science, analytics, and machine learning.
• Engages with regional and national partners in data science and civic technology to foster collaboration and knowledge sharing.
• May supervise subordinate staff or consultants as it relates to data, tables, and other related information as needed to accomplish projects and ensure quality control.
• Performs other related duties, as required.

Minimum Requirements

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Statistics, Data Science, Data Analytics, or a closely related field and thorough (5 years or more) in Data Science. Master's degree preferred.

An equivalent combination of education and experience beyond a high school diploma or its equivalent and some (6 months or more) of the required experience.

NOTE : Other applications or programming languages may be required based upon developments in the IT arena and the City of Miami's or department's needs.

Special note : Must be willing to be on-call 24 hours a day, including weekends and holidays, when necessary.

Applicants selected to fill the position may be subject to undergo and successfully pass a City of Miami Police Department background check depending on the location of the assignment.

Documentation Requirements

Applicants, including City of Miami employees, must upload and submit attached copies of the following documents with the employment application. Please be sure to attach all required documents to your employment application each time you apply. Uploaded documents remain in your online profile but they will not attach automatically and you will be deemed ineligible without the proper documentation.

ALL DOCUMENTS SUBMITTED MUST BE CLEAR, LEGIBLE, AND IN PROPER FORMAT.

THE FOLLOWING DOCUMENTS ARE REQUIRED AT TIME OF APPLICATION AND ARE ACCEPTABLE FORMS OF PROOF :

Credential evaluation reports showing the United States equivalency for academic credentials earned in other countries may be provided by :

For additional list of approved credential evaluation agencies visit the

It is the applicant's responsibility to ensure that all required documents submitted with the employment application are in a format that is acceptable, clear and legible for eligibility determination or risk being disqualified.

Applicants, including City of Miami employees, must completely detail their work experience on the employment application or risk being disqualified. Resumes are not required and will not be reviewed in place of the employment application.

It is the applicant's responsibility to update their online profile with personal data, work experience, education, and certifications, when submitting application(s), failure to do so may result in disqualification.

Applicants must provide a valid email address in order to receive notification of eligibility.

Veterans Preference : Veterans Preference is awarded in accordance with Florida State Statute 295.07. If veteran's preference is being claimed, it must be indicated on the application form and proper documentation, including all forms DD-214 (Member 4) and the applicable FDVA- Veteran's Preference Certification Form(s) in accordance with rule 55A-7.013 - Documentation of Preference Claim, must be submitted with the employment application.

FDVA Certification Forms : Please complete the applicable Veterans' Preference Certification Form(s). Form(s) must be uploaded with your employment application along with acceptable proof of veterans' preference.

Form VP1 : Form VP2 :

FORM VP3 :

Selection Preference for City Residents : In accordance with APM 2-02, applicants for classified positions who are City of Miami residents and new hires will receive preference in selection from interview ranking bands provided that any two (2) of the following documents are submitted with the employment application and again at time of interview :

A. Utility bill dated within 60 days of the date of submission

B. Valid Florida Driver License or State-issued I.D.

C. Property Tax Statement dated within 1 year of the date of submission

D. Properly executed valid lease agreement

E. Homestead Exemption dated within 1 year of the date of submission

F. Motor Vehicle Registration dated within 90 days of the date of submission

G. Official school records or transcripts, dated within 90 days of the date of submission

H. W-2 (or 1099) Tax Form dated within 1 year of the date of submission

City of Miami residents are granted selection preference over non-City of Miami residents within the same ranking band resulting from an interview process.

Selection Preference : Selection preference within the same ranking band resulting from an interview process will be granted in the following order : 1) preference eligible veterans, 2) active City of Miami employees, 3) City of Miami residents, 4) all others.

OPEN / NON-COMPETITIVE

An Equal Opportunity Employer

Note : Benefits subject to change.

Have you attached and uploaded proof of education in form of official / unofficial transcripts, college diploma or foreign education evaluations, (if applicable) by American colleges, universities, or a NACES approved transcript evaluation service, which determine reciprocity to education in the United States which verifies your graduation as specified in the job announcement? Your diploma or transcripts MUST be uploaded with your application before the closing date. If not, please be aware that your application will be deemed ineligible.

If applicable, to receive Veteran's Preference, have you attached and uploaded all final DD-214 forms, (either "Member #2" or "Member #4"), and ALL DOD letters of disability determination to this application?

I understand that I will not be able to submit the required documentation after the recruitment closing date.

Please be aware that an application which does not indicate on its face that the applicant possesses the minimum qualifications required and submit the required documentation for the position will fail the eligibility screening.

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