Job Location: Nashville, TN
Executive Service
ENTERPRISE DATA SCIENTIST
Department of Finance and Administration
Nashville, TN
Closing Date: 10/19/2022
Job Overview:
The State of Tennessee has placed a greater focus on ensuring it invests in what works to better serve citizens across the state. With the Governor’s interest in both evidence and data analytics, the state has created the Office of Evidence and Impact (OEI) to lead these conversations.
The mission of our office is to use data to inform decision makers to ensure we invest in programs that work for Tennesseans. We are able to do this by building a better understanding of what the state is investing in, the type of evidence associated with those investments, and the ways in which the state can enhance its data systems to speak to program implementation and outcomes.
The data scientist for OEI will provide a forward-thinking, analytics-driven vision for how OEI embarks upon an Enterprise Data Analytics program. The data scientist will engage stakeholders from different agencies, the governor’s office, and Strategic Technology Solutions to provide the right analytic and technical solution to solve high-priority policy challenges.
Key Responsibilities:
- Below is a list of responsibilities that ‘while not comprehensive’ provides an overview of the duties of the Data Scientist within the Office of Evidence and Impact:
- Conducts complex programmatic analysis that identifies opportunities for improving the coordination, implementation, and impact of state programs using advanced statistical methods and tools
- Presents information using data visualization techniques, including directly building dashboards, reports, or other tools for OEI and partner agency staff and policy decision-makers as requested, or defining the requirements for STS or other OEI team members to build such tools
- Assists STS with generating and maintaining standard queries and reports for use by partner agency staff and external researchers, and automizing such tasks when possible and appropriate
- Assists STS with ensuring analytic training available to State agencies or external research partners is high quality and meets the needs of users.
- Conducts ad-hoc research and analyses for presentation to partner agencies, F&A leadership, and governor’s office staff
- Serves as OEI’s technical expert in the review of external data requests and their proposed research methods
- Consult, as needed, on OEI¿s evidence-based budgeting and program inventory initiatives specific to any quantitative components
- Supports the planning and development of a data analytics strategy that spans state government, beginning with modernization of the state’s current longitudinal data system
Minimum Qualifications:
- Understand process automation, machine Learning, and artificial intelligence practices (knowledge of how advancing digital tools and techniques are applied in enterprise data and analytics strategies and roadmaps)
- Familiarity with using cloud services (AWS, Google, Azure) or Big Data tools (Hadoop, Hive, Spark) in data science solutions
- Exceptional verbal and written communication skills, as well as the ability to bridge the gap between data science, business management, and technical development and operations
- Experience querying databases and using statistical computer languages: R, Python, SQL, Stata and programming languages (i.e. Java/Python, SAS)
- Experience with data visualization techniques and software, including Tableau
- Strong situational analysis and decision-making abilities
- Ability to think strategically, problem-solve, juggle multiple priorities, and remain attentive to details
- Demonstrated project management and organizational skills
- Ownership of results, with a standard for excellence
- Master’s Degree or Ph.D. (Preferred) and 5+ years¿ experience in data science, data mining, research, and/or statistical analysis
- Experience working in the governmental sector preferred (local, state, or federal)
Pursuant to the State of Tennessee’s Workplace Discrimination and Harassment policy, the State is firmly committed to the principle of fair and equal employment opportunities for its citizens and strives to protect the rights and opportunities of all people to seek, obtain, and hold employment without being subjected to illegal discrimination and harassment in the workplace. It is the State’s policy to provide an environment free of discrimination and harassment of an individual because of that person’s race, color, national origin, age (40 and over), sex, pregnancy, religion, creed, disability, veteran’s status or any other category protected by state and/or federal civil rights laws.
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