Data Analyst II

Salary : $77,640.16 - $129,399.50 Annually

Location : FAIRFAX (EJ32), VA

Job Type : FT Salary W BN

Job Number : 25-00234

Department : Information Technology

Opening Date : 01 / 25 / 2025

Closing Date : 2 / 7 / 2025 11 : 59 PM Eastern

Pay Grade : S27

Posting Type : Open to General Public

Job Announcement

Join the Department of Information Technology's dynamic data team where you will play a pivotal role in transforming data into actionable insights. In this group you will play a crucial role in promoting county data integrity, availability, and data sharing. Work on a variety of projects and tasks, including working with stakeholders, gathering and analyzing business data requirements, developing logical business models, and defining data objects, creating data products, creating and maintaining ML algorithms, and various other data analytics and engineering tasks.

You will have the opportunity to prepare and design data products and solutions, including physical database design, generating data definition language, creating central data repositories, developing AI and ML solutions, as well as assist in the creation and distribution of essential data standards, technical governance, and policies. In this role you will need to be able to think critically and work in both on premise and cloud environments.

Your day-to-day activities may include maintaining data lakes or other repositories, ensuring compliance with standards, and facilitating user data access, developing data ingestion processes, working with APIs, or developing analytical reports to support application development teams. You'll get to work with cutting-edge data modeling and design software, data dictionary and repository tools, and data extraction and cleansing tools. Additionally, you'll provide invaluable training and guidance in data administration practices to our users, empowering them with the tools they need for data warehousing, ad hoc queries, reporting, and online analytical processing.

If you are passionate about data, cloud technologies, analytics, enjoy working in a collaborative and innovative environment, and have a knack for making complex data accessible and understandable, this is the perfect opportunity for you.

Employment Standards

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS :

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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 three years of data analysis and information experience in an academic, data administration, or analytics environment that involves using data modeling, ad hoc query, or business intelligence tools, relational databases, metadata and / or taxonomy.

NECESSARY SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS :

The appointee to this position will be required to complete a criminal background check to the satisfaction of the employer.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS :

• Both cloud and on-prem experience working within the Microsoft stack of products;

Preferred clouds include Azure and / or AWS.

PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS :

Work is generally sedentary. Performed in a normal office environment. All duties performed with or without reasonable accommodations.

SELECTION PROCEDURE :

Panel interviews and may include exercises.

The population of Fairfax County is very diverse where 38.7% of residents speak a language other than English at home () and we encourage candidates bilingual in English and a foreign language to apply to this opportunity.

Fairfax County Government prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, pregnancy, childbirth or related medical conditions, age, marital status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetics, political affiliation, or military status in the recruitment, selection, and hiring of its workforce.

Reasonable accommodations are available to persons with disabilities during application and / or interview processes per the Americans with Disabilities Act. Contact 703-324-4900 for assistance. TTY 703-222-7314. EEO / AA / TTY.

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Merit Positions

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Salary : $77,640 - $129,400