Principal Data Engineer, Operations Manager II (NCS) - Mayor's Office of Performance and Innovation

Requirements

• E ducation: Have a bachelor's degree in computer science, Data Science, Information Systems, or a related field from an accredited college or university.
• AND
• Experience: Have 7+ years of professional experience in data engineering or related technical role.
• OR
• Equivalency Notes: Have an equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
• Technical Expertise
• Proficiency in Python for data engineering (Pandas, Polars, SQLAlchemy, Object-relational mapping, requests)
• Strong SQL skills and experience working with PostgreSQL or other relational databases with an emphasis on geospatial data.
• Experience building and maintaining data pipelines (ETL/ELT) using modern tools
• Experience with data model and database designee. Understanding of cloud data workflows, APIs, and modern DevOps tools fo

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THIS IS A NON-CIVIL SERVICE POSITION Salary Range: $107,187.00 - $176,715.00 Annually Hiring Salary Range: $107,187.00 - $141,950.00 Annually Get to Know Us Welcome to the City of Baltimore! Experience the reward of a fulfilling career and enjoy the added element of excitement in a vibrant, diverse atmosphere. The City of Baltimore offers limitless opportunities to help drive social impact, both on the job and in the community, while serving its citizens. Join us in making Baltimore a great place to live and work. In the City of Baltimore, we hire great people and provide them with the skills and opportunities to grow toward their career aspirations. If you are looking for a career change or are interested in learning more, explore our opportunities and benefits programs. We are excited to have you as a part of the City of Baltimore Team! The city offers medical, prescription drug, dental, vision, optional life, AD&D, and FSA plans. This office also supplies wellness programs, support groups, and workshops. You can learn about our benefits here: https://humanresources.baltimorecity.gov/hr-divisions/benefits Job Summary The Mayor's Office of Performance and Innovation (OPI) is seeking a mission-driven Data Engineer and Architect to help design and develop Baltimore's next-generation data infrastructure. As a core contributor on the team, you'll co-develop a centralized, enterprise-wide data warehouse and the secure, reliable, and scalable data pipelines that feed it. Beyond contributing directly to our codebases, the successful candidate will influence data architecture, orchestration, tooling, and governance. This is a high-impact role for a technically skilled engineer who wants to use their talent for public good. This is an engineering role, but the successful candidate will work on an interdisciplinary team of analysts, designers, and managers to ensure products are adopted by agency staff, policymakers, and the public. Baltimore Innovation Team seeks an experienced Project Manager to lead human-centered design projects from discovery through implementation. This role directly manages a three-person project team and serves as the primary liaison to stakeholders across city government. The Project Manager balances strategic leadership with hands-on facilitation - guiding research, managing timelines, coordinating partners, and ensuring work remains grounded in resident needs while feasible within government systems. The Baltimore Innovation Team was founded in 2017 as part of Bloomberg Philanthropies' Innovation Teams network. The team uses deep research around data and human-centered design to iterate creative solutions to large-scale challenges in Baltimore City government. Since inception, it has delivered on projects including police recruiting, youth justice reform, language access services, and the COVID-19 response. In 2023, additional investment helped scale our team to its current 11-person size. Essential Functions As an architect you will develop data models, data Lakehouse-style tiered layers, orchestration frameworks that make sense for both efficient computation, fellow engineers, and data consumers. As an engineer, you will develop, and maintain ETL/ELT pipelines using Python, PostgreSQL, and modern orchestration frameworks while implementing data quality, monitoring, alerting, and logging mechanisms to ensure pipeline reliability, performance, and transparency. You'll automate data ingestion from multiple data sources (e.g., APIs, flat files, databases) into centralized data models for reporting and analysis. As a member of the Mayor's Office of Performance and Innovation, you'll have context about what datasets mean and how they get used across the enterprise. The team works with agency stakeholders, analysts, and data scientists to get them the data and context that they need. You'll also broadly supports ad hoc data curation, visualization, and statistical needs in City Hall. While this is an engineering role, the team works to translate business questions into technical solutions and data products that surface insights and guide action.

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