Salary Range: $106,342 - $139,573
This is an exempt (salaried) position. Pay rates are based on education, skill, experience level and internal equity.

The success of Mecklenburg County rests on strong, competent talent at all levels of the organization. We are a growing team of talented and passionate IT professionals who are dedicated to delivering creative tools and innovative solutions to engage and serve more than 1 million County residents as well as 6,000 employees. Our mission is to serve the residents of Mecklenburg County by providing business-valued IT solutions and services that are flexible, engaging, and innovative. Whether your passion is architecture, development, quality services, engineering, desktop support, or operations, we have a position for you. If you enjoy working with the public and are looking for a career where your work is important to the community, come be a part of Mecklenburg County and help us provide a community of pride and choice for people to live, learn, work, and recreate.

POSITION SUMMARY
Design, evaluate, and test data infrastructures. This position, with a high degree of latitude, is responsible for managing and building systems and infrastructures that collect and process data according to company needs and goals.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS

Solid experience with Database Design practices, data warehousing concepts, SQL query language and ETL systems.
Design, develop and maintain data pipelines and ETL processes to extract, transform and load data from various data sources into data warehouse.
Expertise with coding and implementing data pipelines in cloud-based infrastructure.
Leverage existing data infrastructure to fulfill all data related requests, perform necessary data housekeeping, data cleansing and other essential data management functions.
Build, evolve and scale out infrastructure to ingest, process and extract meaning out data.
Leverage existing data infrastructure to fulfill all data-related requests, perform necessary data housekeeping, data cleansing, normalization, hashing, and implementation of required data model changes.
Troubleshoot complex problems, identify possible solutions, and resolve accordingly.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS
Experience: Minimum of two years of progressively responsible technology/network related support
Education: Bachelor's degree in computer science, information systems or related field
Combination of relevant education and relevant experience accepted: Yes

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

Experience with Microsoft SQL Server stack and Azure Data tools like Data Factory, Azure Synapse, Data Lake and Microsoft Fabric.
Experience with BI tools like Power BI and/or SSRS.
Understanding of principles, procedures and skills associated with data quality and metadata management.
Experience in administration, design and development with any metadata management tool.
Experience with Apache Spark, PySpark and Python.
Any industry standard data engineer certifications: Azure preferred.

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILITIES
Knowledge of

Broad-based information technology and trends
Training techniques and skills to deliver effective training
Understanding of a wide variety of Information Technology concepts and discipline areas
Integration between multiple computing platforms

Skills

Defining, tracking, and assuring responsiveness to clients' information technology problems
Preparing status reports
Effectively coordinating, performing and completing multiple duties and assignments concurrently and in a timely manner
Categorizing time spent, requests for service and assets according to provided definitions

Abilities

Contributing to Team Success: Actively participates as a member of a team to move the team toward the completion of goals
Building Partnerships: Identifies opportunities and takes action to build strategic relationships between one’s area and other areas, teams, departments, units, or organizations to help achieve business goals
Communication: Clearly conveys information and ideas through a variety of media to individuals or groups in a manner that engages the audience and helps them understand and retain the information received
Collaboration: Works effectively and cooperatively with others; establishes and maintains good working relationships
Customer Focus: Ensures that the customer perspective is a driving force behind business decisions and activities; crafts and implements service practices that meet customers’ and own organization’s needs
Decision Making: Identifies and understands issues, problems, and opportunities; compares data from different sources to draw conclusions; uses effective approaches for choosing a course of action or developing appropriate solutions; takes action that is consistent with available facts, constraints, and probable consequences
Driving for Results: Sets high goals for personal and group accomplishment; uses measurement methods to monitor progress toward goals; tenaciously works to meet or exceed goals while deriving satisfaction from that achievement and continuous improvement
Planning and Organizing: Establishes courses of action for self and others to ensure that work is completed efficiently

COMPUTER SKILLS
Advanced proficiency in various computer applications

REASONABLE ACCOMMODATIONS STATEMENT
To accomplish this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform, with or without reasonable accommodation, each essential function satisfactorily. Reasonable accommodations may be made to help enable qualified individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

DISCLAIMER STATEMENT
This is not intended to be an all-inclusive list of job-related responsibilities, duties, skills, requirements or working conditions. Other duties may be assigned based on business need and the supervisor’s request. Mecklenburg County reserves the right to revise the job description at any time. Designated positions may be required to assist in emergency and/or disaster situations.

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