INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY SPECIALIST III Apply
Job Description and Duties
This advertisement is posted as until filled. Applications will be reviewed every week beginning 02/16/2024, and selections can be made. However, the Job Control will remain open until the vacancy is filled.
The Cradle-to-Career (C2C) program is a longitudinal data system that will provide policymakers, researchers, educators, students, families, and other stakeholders answers to key questions about student progression and outcomes. Ultimately, C2C will be a useful tool that will help provide critical information about the pipelines from early care to K-12 to higher education skills training and employment along with health and human services data. This data system will help support teachers, advisors, parents, and students and be an evidence-based tool that decision makers and researchers can use to help California adopt more equitable policies by providing insight into how educational experiences impact students subsequent academic achievement, work, and earnings.
Under administrative direction from the Director of Data Infrastructure, the Senior Data Engineer will serve as the lead on data pipeline engineering. You will be a proponent for modern data stack approaches at the state. You will ensure that data is available as a service for warehouses, digital services, dashboards, etc. The Senior Data Engineer will plan, develop and document policies and best practices for the Office of Cradle-to-Career Data. You'll collaborate with other team members to help adopt modern cloud-based data practices. You'll transform your knowledge, expertise, and hands on experience into practical guidance and toolkits.
About You
The following captures the intersection of your interests and expertise:
- You are a systems and platform thinker that loves enabling data teams with tools to do their work efficiently and effectively.
- You love engaging with people as much as engaging with data and technology
- You are constantly learning and engaged in the modern data stack ecosystem and enjoy staying up to date on emerging and best practices
- You have a knack for and enjoy communicating technical and architectural tradeoffs clearly to different audiences
- You value simplicity and elegance in architecting solutions over needless complexity and have a sixth sense for evaluating platforms that are fit for purpose
- You like keeping knowledge fresh on platforms and willing to get in and support the team on testing and implementing platforms
You will find additional information about the job in the Duty Statement.
Department Information
Department Website: https://www.c2c.ca.gov
Special Requirements
1. Please describe your experience (including number of years, in what role, and for what employer) engaging in data engineering projects. Highlight some examples and discuss the problem, your contribution and the approach, the result, and lessons learned.
2. How would you articulate the benefits of a cloud-based data stack to an audience most familiar with on-premise platforms?
3. How have you improved the data engineering practices in a former role? What approaches did you find most successful? Least successful?
4. What would you want us to know about you that you are not able to convey in the above 3 prompts?
Note: Applicants who do not follow these instructions may be disqualified from the selection process. Cover letters and resumes do not take the place of the SOQ.
Application Instructions
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Final Filing Date: Until FilledWho May Apply
Applications will be screened and only the most qualified applicants will be selected to move forward in the selection process. Applicants must meet the Minimum Qualifications stated in the Classification Specification(s).
How To Apply
Address for Mailing Application Packages
You may submit your application and any applicable or required documents to:
Address for Drop-Off Application Packages
You may drop off your application and any applicable or required documents at:
Required Application Package Documents
The following items are required to be submitted with your application. Applicants who do not submit the required items timely may not be considered for this job:
- Current version of the State Examination/Employment Application STD Form 678 (when not applying electronically), or the Electronic State Employment Application through your Applicant Account at www.CalCareers.ca.gov. All Experience and Education relating to the Minimum Qualifications listed on the Classification Specification should be included to demonstrate how you meet the Minimum Qualifications for the position.
- Resume is optional. It may be included, but is not required.
- Other - If you are basing your eligibility on education, provide your transcripts. Applicants with foreign transcripts must provide a transcript evaluation that indicates the number of units to which the foreign course work is equivalent. Transcripts and evaluations may be unofficial; official transcripts will be required upon appointment. Please redact birth dates and social security numbers. If you are not basing your eligibility on an educational requirement, you may instead use the bypass option (when applying, select Choose/Upload for the required document and then select Bypass File).
- Statement of Qualifications - A STATEMENT OF QUALIFICATIONS IS REQUIRED. Please see the Special Requirements section for instructions.
Desirable Qualifications
- Bachelors degree in information technology, social science, data analysis, economics, public policy, education policy, or a related field
- AWS Solution Architect Professional Certificate
- Experience at the senior leadership level of planning and managing strategic projects and being accountable for results
- Experience managing agile teams of professionals and effectively coaching them to achieve high performance
- Experience designing, developing, deploying, securing, and maintaining infrastructure of cloud-based data systems
- Experience integrating disparate data systems, preferably those housing educational data
- Experience creating accessible, accurate data visualizations from large datasets
Benefits
Contact Information
The Human Resources Contact is available to answer questions regarding the application process. The Hiring Unit Contact is available to answer questions regarding the position.
Department Website: https://www.c2c.ca.gov
Human Resources Contact:
Mari Rodriguez
(916) 273-9206
Marianela.rodriguez@calhr.ca.gov
Hiring Unit Contact:
Lesley Taylor
(916) 208-8493 ext:
lesley.taylor@c2c.ca.gov
Please direct requests for Reasonable Accommodations to the interview scheduler at the time the interview is being scheduled. You may direct any additional questions regarding Reasonable Accommodations or Equal Employment Opportunity for this position(s) to the Department's EEO Office.
EEO Contact:RA Coordinators
(916) 324-3235
RACoordinators@calhr.ca.gov
California Relay Service: 1-800-735-2929 (TTY), 1-800-735-2922 (Voice) TTY is a Telecommunications Device for the Deaf, and is reachable only from phones equipped with a TTY Device.
Additional Application Information
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Applications must be complete and include a description of the duties performed for each position held; reference to a resume (See Resume) in place of a description of the duties performed will not be accepted.
Additional positions may be filled from this recruitment.
Pending budget approval.
Examination Information
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Equal Opportunity Employer
The State of California is an equal opportunity employer to all, regardless of age, ancestry, color, disability (mental and physical), exercising the right to family care and medical leave, gender, gender expression, gender identity, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, military or veteran status, national origin, political affiliation, race, religious creed, sex (includes pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding and related medical conditions), and sexual orientation.
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