Principal Data Analyst

Position: PRINCIPAL DATA ANALYST
Description

BID/JOB ANNOUNCEMENT

PRINCIPAL DATA ANALYST

Department of Technology and Innovation

IT Delivery

Number of Positions: 1

(Additional vacancies are possible pending budget approval)

Annual Starting Salary: $99,480

These positions are open to the general public and to all current city employees covered under the terms of the City's collective bargaining agreement with the AMERICAN FEDERATION OF STATE, COUNTY AND MUNICIPAL EMPLOYEES (AFSCME) - (BARGAINING UNIT #01, 03, 04, 05).

Only employees in City job titles in this bargaining unit are eligible to bid.

BID INSTRUCTIONS:
Apply on the bid site: ;/strong>

AND

1. Check the box on your profile titled "Currently employed by the City of Chicago"

2. Enter your employee  (located on your pay stub labeled 'payee/employee number')

3. Select your correct bargaining unit

FAILURE TO FOLLOW THESE INSTRUCTIONS WILL RESULT IN A REJECTED BID APPLICATION

Applications for this position will be accepted beginning 7-29-26 until 11:59pm on 8-12-26.

Under general supervision, identifies captures, analyzes, and manages data contributing to better decision-making and planning; bridges complex datasets with executive decision-making and performs related duties as required.

Essential Duties:

Works independently with varying teams to determine how data analysis can support organizational goals.

Gathers data to support recommendations to address problems, with appropriate contingency plans.

Develop recommendations for resolution of problems and reviews recommendations with the team.

Understands and apply information and data analysis requirements.

Turns information into insights to support and enable key decisions and business processes.

Supports information governance in conjunction with Architects and Data Stewards.

Designs, creates, and maintains relational databases and data systems of moderate to high complexity.

Works with open datasets, including populating and extracting data from internal and public open datasets.

Performs data analysis, including conceptualization, modeling, and presentation of data.

Performs a variety of technical tasks related to capturing, managing, and analyzing data.

Cleans and prunes data to discard irrelevant information.

Designs reporting dashboards to translate data into an understandable illustrative format and fulfills ad hoc reporting requests.

Develop procedures for data validation, analysis, and presentation.

Performs initial data exploration (e.g., binning, pivoting, summarizing, and finding correlations).

Implement statistical models to identify and reveal trends, patterns, and relationships in data to provide guidance to others for decision-making processes.

Actively suggests analytics opportunities and best practices.

Catalogs and enables access to resident and external data sources.

Helps to streamline analytics to go from experimentation into production.

Supports innovative efforts by driving creativity, acting with agility, and thinking outside current boundaries.

May create data visualizations and reports to present to audiences using presentation layer tools.

Additional duties may be required for this position.

Location:

2 N. Lasalle, Suite#1010

Chicago, IL 60602

Shift: Monday-Friday

Hours:

8:00a.m. to 4:00p.m. (Flexible)

( Shift may vary due to the needs of the operation )

THIS POSITION IS IN THE CAREER SERVICE

Qualifications

Graduation from an accredited college with an Associate's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Business, or a directly related field, plus two (2) years of data analysis work experience.

OR

Graduation from an accredited college with a Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science, Information Systems, Business, or a directly related field, plus one (1) year of data analysis work experience.

OR

Four (4) years of work experience in data analysis.

NOTE:

To be considered for this position you must provide information about your educational background and/or work experience. You must include job titles, dates of employment and specific job duties. (If you are a current City employee, Acting Up cannot be considered). If you fail to provide this information at the time you submit your application, it will be incomplete, and you will…