Lead Data Engineer/Analyst

LEAD ENGINEER/ANALYST

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY DEPARTMENT

 POSTED:3/10/2025

Program Summary

NYCJA’s Information technology team provides strategic vision, leadership, and innovative solutions so that our 300+ staff at 13 locations have the trusted data and applications they need to provide high quality pretrial services and research.  IT staff have strong customer focus, partnering with business units and stakeholders to pilot new programs, and create custom applications with an eye towards future business needs. Our dedicated professionals meet challenges head-on by being flexible, expecting change and supporting each other in a culture of mutual respect, trust and teamwork that encourages personal and professional growth. 

Position Summary
NYCJA is looking for a Lead Engineer/ Analyst to join our Information Technology team. CJA is on mission to be the leader in the pretrial services field and a trusted resource for our criminal justice partners.  Underlying the mission is dedication to data, that stems from 50 years of research and reporting. In this role, with a focus on ensuring accurate and timely reporting, you work with our expanding data services team. This team plays a key role in developing processes, insights, and analysis to improve the experience for everyone involved in the pretrial process. The Data Analyst will also report on key statistical metrics related to case processing and court outcomes. 

Responsibilities

Data and Research

• Expanding Research and operational data sets using data pipelines and ETL processes
• Design, develop, and optimize ETL pipelines to ingest, transform, and distribute large-scale data efficiently.
• Monitor, troubleshoot, and optimize data infrastructure performance, improving query speeds and system efficiency.
• Implement and enforce data governance, quality, and security best practices to ensure data integrity and compliance.
• Build measures, KPI’s, metrics and visualizations that provide visibility into agency operations and the activity around the criminal justice journey
• Lead the data quality review process, elevating issues impacting key data elements
• Synthesize findings into clear and actionable recommendations for improving pretrial operations and outcomes.
• Build and maintain data visualizations using Power BI reports.

Collaboration

• Work to understand complex business problems and provide recommendations to improve reporting processes
• Gather data to support business decisions and research
• Work closely with stakeholders across the organization to identify areas for improvement, raise issues and risks to stakeholders and management
• Collaborate with other technical staff on data pipelines, system improvement, analysis techniques and opportunities for improvement
• Increase data literacy and data expertise through mentoring, collaboration, and development of best practices & documentation
• On-Call Responsibilities: Ensure system and data availability.

Team Leadership

• Serve as the escalation point for business processes, systems, and technology. This would include database, query, and report performance
• Ensure data services team understands the priorities and meets key deliverable dates
• Handle the prioritization and triage of planned and ad-hoc request work items, to maximize value to the business
• Focus on team building, working with the data services team to train, mentor, all while helping to center their personal & professional development.

Requirements:

Educational Background:

• BS, MS, or PhD in a relevant technology field (e.g., data science, computer science, operations research, statistics) or equivalent experience.

Professional Experience:

• 6+ years of relevant data engineering and analytics experience.
• 3+ years of experience with data visualization tools such as Power BI, Tableau, or Flourish.
• 3+ years of team leadership experience.

Skills and Abilities:

• Strong research, analytical, and troubleshooting skills with the ability to gather and interpret relevant data and information.
• Proficiency in project management.
• Ability to work independently and collaboratively within a team.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Proven experience navigating complex multi-agency or company-level business goals, analyzing data sets, and identifying trends, patterns, and insights to improve business processes.
• Understanding of agile development methodology.

Technical Skills:

• 4+ years of experience with SQL (e.g., MS SQL Server).
• Experience with data analysis techniques to facilitate data modeling and work with large data sets.
• Experience working in cloud environments such as Azure, using tools Azure Synapse.
• Proficiency in Python and R programming languages.

LOCATION: Lower Manhattan 

SALARY: $110K-$130K

Note: This is a hybrid role: 3 days in office Tuesday thru Thursday and 2 days remote Monday and Friday in New York City metropolitan areas (including northern NJ).

*Internal applicants must be 1 year in their current roles and in good standing (no disciplinary action within the last 90 days) to apply.

CJA VALUES  

Each employee at CJA is guided by these values in our work: 

• Commitment: We are committed to being active partners in criminal justice reform through initiatives and creative problem-solving that evaluates different methods and strategies for alternatives to detention. 
• Fairness: We are guided by fairness and the presumption of innocence for those who are detained and work with integrity and without bias to protect the privacy and interest of court-involved people and their families. 
• Innovation: We value curiosity as a driving force to lead the way in pretrial services. We use innovative techniques in research, pilot programs, and engaging justice-involved communities to execute our mission of reducing unnecessary pretrial detention. 

BENEFITS: CJA offers a very generous benefit plan including health, dental and vision insurance, a comprehensive mental health and wellness (EAP) plan, four weeks’ vacation, paid holidays and a retirement plan with employer matching contributions.  CJA is also strongly committed to professional learning and development for its staff members and offers staff varied opportunities for learning and development through partnerships and vendor services for web based, in-person professional development training, as well as in-house job training and development. 

Note: Only those candidates being considered will be contacted.

CJA is seeking applicants who pursue professional development pathways by participating in educational opportunities, reading professional publications, maintaining professional networks, and engaging with professional associations

The New York City Criminal Justice Agency is an Equal Opportunity Employer 

CJA is committed to creating and retaining a workforce of diverse talent and a culture of inclusion and belonging that honors and welcomes people with a variety of backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer with a track record of encouraging and supporting the employment of people with lived experiences in the legal system. We are dedicated to advancing our mission and work by recruiting and building multi-disciplinary teams that reflect the racial, ethnic, culture and gender identities of the clients and communities we serve. 

We encourage individuals of all backgrounds to apply. Our employment practices are equitable and fair, without consideration of race, color, national origin, sex, gender identity, religion, sexual orientation, age, disability, prior arrest or conviction, employment status, parental status, veteran status, or any other protected status under applicable laws.