As a Senior Data Scientist with the Advanced Analytics and Evaluation team, you will provide innovative analytic and data science support for client facing projects across the State of California. You will serve as the senior data scientist on a wide variety of data science projects from across the state. You will serve as a key advisor on exploratory, statistical, and predictive analytics to inform data-driven decisions.
You will help evaluate and decide on the best approach for projects from both an ethical lens, as well as statistical lens. You will help advise teams across the state on responsible, effective, and ethical data science practices.
You will collaborate with the team’s data engineers and data analysts on the projects. Years of experience is the primary distinguisher between our principal data scientist (5+ years) and senior data scientist (3+ years).
CalData works across all departments in the state, with data that reaches all Californians. You will find the problems and challenges we engage with need the heart as much as the mind.
About you: You are an experienced data scientist who wants to create impact at scale. The following bullet points describe you:
- You are a responsible, thoughtful, and rigorous user of advanced statistical techniques
- You know from experience that modeling is one of many steps to drive data driven decisions making
- You want to bring the right approach to solve the client’s problem
- You avoid needless statistical complexity
- You are eager to consult, brainstorm, and advise other data teams
- You enjoy abstracting your approaches and helping to build capacity across multiple teams
- You enjoy the process of communicating and collaborating with both technical clients and non-technical clients to truly understand a problem and its data
- You have an eye for sustainability and take great joy in improving data science practices at scale
- You understand the concepts of institutional and structural racism and bias and their impact on data and analytics.
Location: ODI staff reside throughout California. The employee’s workstation is located in Sacramento, CA. Travel to the Sacramento headquarters may be required as needed. This position provides telework opportunities in accordance with agency telework policies. (Must currently reside in California)
Annual Salary: $130,008 to $160,008 based on experience
Benefits: The state offers many benefits
Last day to apply: Open until filled. First application review begins Wednesday, December 7, 2022
What you’ll do
- Serve as the senior data scientist for advanced analytics and data science projects from across the state
- Help define best practices in advanced analytics and data science and help grow these practices within ODI and across the state
- Participate in project solicitation, vetting, and scoping processes to identify client projects across the state
About ODI
We deliver better services to Californians through technology and design. We do so through close partnership with other state departments. Our goal is to create programs and products that are more equitable and effective. We listen to Californians who use a program now or may do so tomorrow and learn about what they need.
We:
- Build tools and products
- Create and enhance digital services
- Conduct research
- Identify data solutions
- Offer training
We are a cross-discipline staff with blended backgrounds in:
- Design
- Engineering
- Product
- Operations
- Data
- Research
- Policy
- Strategy
Learn more about ODI’s vision and mission.
About CalData division
CalData uses data to deliver better decisions, services, and outcomes for Californians.
As the central data team for the state, we empower people to use data. We build infrastructure, develop processes, and train people to better manage and use data. We want the state’s data use to be:
- Efficient
- Effective
- Secure
- Responsible
To help state departments use data well, we created California’s Data Strategy. We use a road analogy to illustrate the strategy. We must:
- Build data roads
- Craft rules of the road
- Boost the drivers
Read the full strategy in Google Doc or PDF.
More details about CalData, our positions, and how we work are available in our Gitbook.
Diversity, equity, and inclusion at ODI
Diversity, equity, and inclusion help us deliver better government services to Californians.
- Fostering diversity inspires better ideas and more innovative thinking.
- Feeling included nurtures a shared sense of community. This drives us to take collective action on challenging problems.
- Prioritizing equity ensures we build solutions for people whose needs are often overlooked.
We acknowledge our history and present of implicit and structural injustice, bias, and discrimination. We see, hear, and accept each other and the lived experiences we bring to our work. We support each other in learning and developing so we can help all Californians thrive.
We understand this work is never done. That’s why we commit to constant improvement.