Data Visualization Engineer

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Job Posting Title:

Data Visualization Engineer

    

Job Description:

Supports and contributes to district initiatives and processes to provide data-driven decision-making related to district goals by transforming data into meaningful and actionable insights through the creation of visually appealing and interactive data visualizations, dashboards, infographics, reports, and models. You will work closely with cross-functional teams to understand data requirements, design effective visualizations, and provide valuable insights to support both tactical and strategic decision-making.

MINIMUM EDUCATION OR FORMAL TRAINING:
- Bachelor’s Degree in a related field (e.g., Data Science, Computer Science, Statistics, or a relevant discipline)

ESSENTIAL ENVIRONMENTAL DEMANDS:
- Mostly clean and comfortable.

ESSENTIAL PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS:
- Occasional travel throughout 900 sq mi school district, requiring personal vehicle.
- Occasional lifting of 10 -20 pounds.
- Frequent bending, stooping, walking, standing, kneeling, squatting, reaching, and sitting.

    

Position Specific Information (if Applicable):

    

Responsibilities:

Perform other related duties as assigned or requested.

Detect, isolate and resolve application issues and serve as a technical resource in the evaluation, analysis, design, development, testing, integration and support of the District’s applications.

Adhere to and keep current the Information Services standards, programming procedures and techniques. Act as technical consultant to the ITS staff and to others outside the organization. Develop the knowledge and skills of other team members.

Plan, prepare and conduct system level testing. Analyze test results to detect technical or logical errors.

Review documentation for new software releases and work with users to determine impacts and modifications necessary.

Review tasks in progress and completed assignments for accuracy, efficiency, maintainability and adherence to established standards. Engage in knowledge transfer and cross-training between skills and applications.

Collaborate with stakeholders to establish business requirements. Analyze business requirements and design systems to support those needs.

Data Management and Integration: Work with data engineering teams to source, integrate and transform data from various sources into usable formats for visualization purposes. 

Quality Assurance: Ensure the accuracy, consistency, and reliability of data visualizations by performing data analysis, validation and quality checks.

Data Storytelling: Craft compelling narratives around data visualizations to effectively communicate findings to both technical and non-technical audiences.

Dashboard Development: Build and maintain dashboards that provide real-time insights and allow end-users to interact with the data.

Requirements Gathering: Collaborate with stakeholders to understand their data needs and translate these requirements into actionable visualization designs.

Data Analysis: Analyze complex datasets to identify trends, patterns, and outliers that can be communicated effectively through visualizations.

Data Visualization: Create visually stunning and interactive data visualizations using industry-standard tools such as Tableau, or Python libraries (matplotlib, Seaborn, Plotly, etc.).

    

Work Experience:

Proven experience (2 years) as a Data Visualization Engineer or similar role | Not Required Three (3) years utilizing agile development methodologies that may include but not limited to RUP, SCRUM, KANBAN. | Not Required Two (2) years’ experience proficiency in data analysis and data manipulation using SQL and/or Python | Not Required

    

Certifications:

Valid Colorado Driver's License - Colorado Dept of Transportation

    

Education:

Bachelor's Degree (Required)

    

Skills:

Ability to learn new technologies and methodologies., Ability to mentor and provide leadership in processes and development activities., Ability to work collaboratively in a team and meet tight deadlines, Ability to work independently., Accountability: take pride and ownership of work; ensuring process and outcomes; solutions and results based; candid and forthwith of issues; ma