DATA ENGINEER

Overview

The mission of the New York City Police Department is to enhance the quality of life in New York City by working in partnership with the community to enforce the law, preserve peace, protect the people, reduce fear, and maintain order. The New York City Police Department strives to foster a safe and fair city through the strategic deployment of resources, focusing on both crime prevention and addressing quality‑of‑life concerns while building lasting community relationships.

OMAP analyzes and evaluates Departmental policies, programs, and resources to make recommendations to the Police Commissioner to ensure maximum organizational efficiency and effectiveness of the Department. OMAP is the research and assessment arm of the Department, comprised of both uniform and civilian members with a wide variety of academic and professional experiences. OMAP conducts analyses to improve effectiveness and efficiency (e.g., personnel deployments, resource allocation), develops complex pilot projects, formulates policy recommendations, and prepares briefing materials for the Police Commissioner on a wide range of legislative and procedural issues.

A skilled and highly motivated Data Engineer is sought to join the OMAP Data Science team. The successful candidate will contribute to the section mission by designing and developing data‑intensive applications to strengthen the Department data foundation. Responsibilities include development work in Python and database management, working with both structured and unstructured datasets, and writing clean code to integrate with analysis tools and support data science services.

Strong interpersonal and project‑management skills are required.

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In compliance with Federal Law, all persons hired will be required to verify identity and eligibility to work in the United States and to complete the required employment eligibility verification document form upon hire.

The City of New York offers a comprehensive benefits package including health insurance for the employee and his or her spouse or domestic partner and unemancipated children under age 26, union benefits such as dental and vision coverage, paid annual leave and sick leave, paid holidays, a pension, and optional savings and pre‑tax programs such as Deferred Compensation, IRA, and a flexible spending account.

• For Assignment Level I:
  Master’s degree in an accredited college or university with a specialization in a suitable field of physical, biological, environmental science or public health.
• For Assignment Level II and above:
  • A doctorate degree with one year of full‑time supervisory, administrative or research experience in the relevant field.
  • A master’s degree with three years of full‑time research experience in the relevant field.
  • Or equivalent education/experience. Candidates must have at least a master’s degree and at least two years of experience as described above; two years as a City Research Scientist Level I may substitute for the experience required.

Appointments to this position are subject to a minimum probationary period of one year.

• Experience designing and developing data‑driven applications using Python.
• Develop ETL pipelines to prepare department data for analysis and improve overall data governance (e.g., Pandas, Cloud).
• Develop data infrastructure to support statistical and machine‑learning models (e.g., Docker).
• Conduct complex data analysis to inform design and development decisions.
• Write clean code that integrates data sources with Power BI.
• Write advanced SQL queries to support analytic projects.
• Work with unstructured data such as text, geospatial, and network data (e.g., NLTK, Geopy, Network
  
  X).
• Excellent oral, written, analytic, organizational and interpersonal skills and attention to detail.
• Manage multiple projects…