Predictive Data Analyst

Salary Range: $7,383.82- $9,950.28 monthly

SUMMARY

The Office of Diversion and Reentry (ODR) within the Los Angeles County Department of Health Services (DHS) Community Programs is looking for a Predictive Date Analyst.

Where appropriate to the job function, a hybrid work schedule may be available, with employees working both remotely and from the office, as needed.

Predictive data analysts perform regular quality-assurance analysis upon relevant data sets and work with data administrators and other information technology staff to establish data pipelines and identify issues in need of correction.  Incumbents use major statistical programming languages and packages to deploy well-established machine learning and advanced data visualization techniques to complete well-defined, routine-to-moderately-difficult functions and projects.  Incumbents may oversee smaller or more routine projects and contribute to larger, more complex projects overseen by a Data Scientist or Senior Data Scientist.

The ideal candidate has experience working directly with a client-centric relational database and with managing individuals.

They have strong technical knowledge and are comfortable doing analyses and building reports out of a SQL database.

They are comfortable with a variety of analytical tools and have taken the lead on projects where the best path forward is unclear.

They have a customer service mindset.   

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS
1.

Reporting and Analysis
+ Assists department stakeholders to define data needs and requirements to ensure data science projects meet business needs at the community, regional, divisional, departmental, or county-wide level
+ Uses statistical programming languages and packages, computer scripting languages, and/or domain-specific languages to digest, manipulate, prepare, augment, evaluate, analyze, summarize, and visualize data
+ Conducts end-to-end predictive data modeling projects that include basic exploratory data analysis, feature engineering, model selection, deployment of models into production environments, and visualization of findings
+ Performs data management and manipulation, including the writing of data queries of departmental databases and data marts, data cleaning, and joining of multiple and disparate data sets
+ Extracts and organizes data and applies quality-control techniques to ensure the accuracy and completeness of all data; researches source documents and coordinates with others to resolve missing or conflicting data and other anomalies
+ Ensures regular reporting occurs within specified deadlines
+ Regularly creates deliverables for special projects and assignments, such as ad-hoc department reporting and program analyses
+ Creates documentation for the processes and procedures used for reporting and analyses
2.

Tool Development and Maintenance
+ Collaborates with other department subject matter experts...