Data Engineer

Job Description

Job Description

Company Overview :

With an annual budget of $1.9 billion and more than 7,000 employees throughout the five boroughs, the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (NYC DOHMH) is one of the largest public health agencies in the world, serving 8 million New Yorkers from diverse ethnic and cultural backgrounds. We're tackling a broad range of public health issues with innovative policies and programs and getting exceptional results, but our work is never finished. The breadth of our innovative programs provides the widest range of choices for every member of our team.

Program Overview :

Established in 1805, the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH) is the oldest and largest health department in the country. Our mission is to protect and improve the health of all New Yorkers, in service of a vision of a city in which all New Yorkers can realize their full health potential, regardless of who they are, how old they are, where they are from, or where they live.

As a world-renowned public health agency with a history of building transformative public health programming and infrastructure, innovating in science and scholarship to advance public health knowledge, and responding to urgent public health crises - from New York City's yellow fever outbreak in 1822, to the COVID-19 pandemic - we are a hub for public health innovation, expertise, and programs and services. We serve as the population health strategist, and policy and planning authority for the City of New York, while also having a vast impact on national and international public policy, including programs and services focused on food and nutrition, anti-tobacco support, chronic disease prevention, HIV / AIDS treatment, family and child health, environmental health, mental health, and racial and social justice work, among others.

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 public action. 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 agency wide 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.

This position will be based at the Health Department’s office in Long Island City, NY, with the possibility of hybrid work.

Summary of Position :

As a Data Engineer on our Integrated Public Health team, you will play a pivotal role in enhancing our data pipeline, crucial for our advanced public health analytics efforts. Your responsibilities include developing, maintaining, and optimizing a secure, scalable data pipeline that supports meaningful public health insights and outcomes. You will be instrumental in advancing a cross-functional approach to data pipeline, ensuring efficient data processing, scalable storage solutions, and adherence to security and governance measures. Your work will directly contribute to the effectiveness and advancement of our public health objectives, ensuring our practices not only meet current needs but are also strategically aligned to meet future challenges.

This position will be within the Health Department’s innovative Center for Population Health Data Science’s (CPHDS) Bureau of Data Technology and Strategy and reporting to the Executive Director for Data Engineering and Management. 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 – and being actively used to protect and promote health and wellbeing of New Yorkers. This position will involve close collaboration with the Division of Information Technology.

The selected candidate will be an employee of Public Health Solutions, a nonprofit organization which is the fiscal and administrative manager of the grant; work will be supervised by DOHMH. This is a grant-funded position ending in November 2027. This position will be based at the Health Department’s office in Long Island City, NY, with the possibility of hybrid work.

Responsibilities :

• Develop an integrated data pipeline that facilitates efficient data exchange, analysis, surveillance, and reporting.
• Collaborate with public health experts to understand data requirements for health informatics, integrating public health data standards and practices into our integrated data architecture.
• Develop, and maintain scalable, secure data pipelines and platform to support real-time and batch data ingestion and processing from diverse internal and external data sources.
• Guide the selection and implementation of cutting-edge data technologies and tools to enhance our analytics and data science capabilities.
• Promote data governance, quality, and security best practices, ensuring compliance with applicable regulations and standards.
• Collaborate with internal and external stakeholders to align data infrastructure enhancements with the needs of diverse units.

Qualifications : Required

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Why Join Us :

Benefits :

Additional Information :

At PHS, we place immense value on diversity within our teams, understanding that varied backgrounds and experiences significantly enhance our community and propel us toward our goals. If you find you don’t have experience in all the areas listed above, we still encourage you to apply and share your background and experiences in your application. We are eager to discover how your unique perspective can bring positive transformations to our team and help advance our mission of creating healthier, more equitable communities.

We look forward to learning more about you!

PHS is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and encourages applications from women, people of color, persons with disabilities, LGBTQIA individuals, and veterans.

Monday-Friday

Hybrid

35 Hours per week

Salary : $135,000