Airport Senior Data Engineer

The Clark County Department of Aviation is seeking qualified candidates to apply for the Airport Senior Data Engineer position. This position designs, builds, and maintains the infrastructure that enables efficient and reliable data processing for analytics, reporting, and other data-driven applications. Further, this position works with various data sources to ensure data quality and collaborates with other teams to support data modeling and analysis. The successful candidate will be responsible for creating and managing data pipelines, databases, and data warehouses, ensuring data is accessible and reliable for various business needs, which includes transforming raw data into usable formats, building data tools, and collaborating with other teams to optimize data usage.

Note: This position is confidential and excluded from membership in the union. Also, this classification is designated exempt under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), and is therefore, not eligible for overtime.

THE CLOSING DATE FOR THIS RECRUITMENT HAS BEEN CHANGED AND IS NOW REFLECTED IN THE JOB ANNOUNCEMENT.

This is an open and continuous recruitment; scheduling dates will vary depending on when the application was received and reviewed by Employee Services.

This examination will establish an Open Competitive Eligibility list to fill current and/or future vacancies that may occur within the next six (6) months at either level or may be extended as needed by Employee Services.  

Employee Services reserves the right to call only the most qualified applicants to the selection process.

Education and Experience: 

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Management Information Systems, or a closely related field and seven (7) years of full-time professional level experience in data engineering, with a focus on cloud environments. Possession at time of application and maintenance of a Microsoft Certified Azure Data Engineer Associate or Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE) is preferred and may be substituted for education or experience up to two (2) years. Additionally, professional level experience and/or education that has provided the skills and knowledge necessary to perform all job functions at this level may be substituted on a year-for-year basis up to two (2) years.

Qualifying education and experience must be clearly documented in the “Education” and “Work Experience” sections of the application. Do not substitute a resume for your application or write "see attached resume" on your application.

Licensing and Certification: AWS Certified Big Data, IBM Certified Data Engineer, Oracle Certified Professional - MySQL, DBA, Certified Data Management Professional (CDMP), SAS Certified Bid Data Professional or similar are preferred.

Pre-Employment Drug Testing: Employment is contingent upon the results of a pre-employment drug examination.  

Residency Requirement: Permanent employees must maintain a principal place of residency within the boundaries of Clark County and provide proof of compliance with Nevada motor vehicle registration and drivers' license laws within 90 days of employment.

Citizenship: Candidates must be legally authorized to work in the United States. Please note, Clark County does not provide H1B visa sponsorships or transfers for any employment positions.

Background Check: Employment with the Department of Aviation is contingent upon completion of an education/experience background investigation, a fingerprint-based criminal history record check processed by the FBI, and upon the ability to be granted a security badge as mandated by the Transportation Security Administration. 

Note: all prospective hires must present two original government issued ID's upon acceptance of job offer. Examples of acceptable ID's include a Passport, Driver's License or DMV issued ID, birth certificate, Social Security card, Voter Registration card, school issued ID with picture, etc.

Mobility to work in a typical office setting and use standard office equipment, stamina to remain seated and maintain concentration for an extended period of time, vision to read printed materials and a computer screen, and hearing and speech to communicate in person or over the telephone. Accommodation may be made for some of these physical demands for otherwise qualified individuals who require and request such accommodation.

• Provides lead direction, training and work review to a team; organizes and assigns work, sets priorities and follows-up and controls project status to ensure coordination and completion of assigned work.
• Leads and mentors a team of data professionals, providing technical guidance and project direction.
• Creates data pipelines, developing efficient ETL processes, and building scalable data models to support analytical and operational needs of the organization.
• Works with confidential and organization sensitive data and systems.
• Designs, develops and maintains data pipelines and ETL processes in a cloud-based and on-premise environments.
• Implements and manages data lakes and data warehouses utilizing cloud-based services.
• Creates and optimizes data models to support stakeholder requirements and analytical needs.
• Collaborates with cross-functional teams to define and implement data solutions.
• Ensures data quality, security, and compliance with industry standards.
• Optimizes data infrastructure for performance, scalability, and cost-efficiency.
• Troubleshoots and resolves complex data-related issues.
• Implements real-time data processing solutions for operations monitoring and reporting.
• Designs and implements data integration strategies to connect various airport systems and external data sources.
• Tests, troubleshoots, refines and documents systems; applies quality assurance and security standards to ensure against the loss of data and a minimal interruption of usage in the event of equipment failure.
• Plans and develops test data to validate new or modified database applications, monitors system performance by the use of appropriate utilities, online capabilities and batch reports.
• Confers with IT and customer staff to define functional requirements, perform data modeling and implement final products; resolves errors and interface problems and ensures integrated systems in accordance with development standards.
• Composes program documentation and user procedures and instructions and assists user departments and staff in implementing new or modified database applications; tracks and evaluates project and systems progress.
• Serves on a variety of committees, project teams and task forces and provides customer service support as required.
• Prepares a variety of technical, statistical and narrative reports, letters, memos and other written materials.
• Contributes to the efficiency and effectiveness of the unit's service to its customers by offering suggestions and directing or participating as an active member of a work team.