The Strategic Management Bureau (SMB) of the SFPD manages all major strategic projects for the department, to include police reform, change management, technology implementation, auditing, and policy development and implementation. As our new data scientist, you would immediately contribute to ongoing and yet to be approved projects at the department level, in one of the top 20 law enforcement agencies in the nation by size.
Under general direction of the SMB Program Manager and Business Analysis Team Lead, the 1042 IS Engineer (Journey) functions as a Data Scientist employing generally accepted data science techniques on dozens of available datasets. You will join our team as an analytics expert and data advisor/architect to assist the department in the development of its data collection, analysis, transparency, reporting and warehousing programs. You will help identify opportunities for data modeling and visualization, conduct and communicate the analysis and help deploy the insights into reports and operations. You will be a member of a team of data analyst who work to deliver the best insights using data and knowledge of business practices to provide reporting to the public, our enterprise, our accountability partners, local, state, and federal government entities, and the public at large.
Essential Duties:
• Generates, define, and refine data science projects and manage a portfolio of data science projects from conception to implementation.
• Conduct a range of analyses or experiments using whatever statistical and modeling methods and tools are most appropriate.
• Serve as subject matter expert and help improve the skills of department data analysts, the efficiency of the workflow, and the quality of the work and outputs.
• Develop data visualizations and tools to support analysis.
• Conduct research and analysis as needed to inform the data analysis.
• Develop presentations and communicate the results of your work.
• Help develop and implement products, services, tools, or business process changes resulting from the analysis.
• Create and maintain data pipelines for open data and data science projects as needed.
• Advise the department on data architecture, collection and warehousing programs and policies.
• Provide technical assistance and guidance to data analysts implementing their own analytical work.
• Perform other related duties as assigned.
Location: San Francisco, CA
Posted: Aug. 28, 2024, 10:51 p.m.
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