Executive Director for Data Analytics and Engineering

New York City, NY - USA

Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed

Posted on: 30+ days ago

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

The New York City Taxi and Limousine Commission (TLC) is the City agency responsible for regulating for-hire transportation in New York City including taxis street hail liveries high-volume for-hire services such as Uber and Lyft black cars luxury limousines livery vehicles commuter vans and paratransit vehicles. TLC licenses about 175000 drivers 115000 vehicles and 1000 businesses which together transport nearly a million passengers a day making TLC the most active for-hire transportation regulatory agency in the world with oversight of a key component of the Citys transportation network. TLC is on the front lines of a rapidly changing mobility landscape and our innovative efforts--whether regulating driver pay ensuring wheelchair accessibility working to eliminate traffic fatalities or reducing vehicle emissions--often serve as a model for other cities.

TLC is seeking an Executive Director for Data Analytics and Engineering to lead the agencys expanding data team within the Policy Division. TLC receives data for every taxi and for-hire vehicle trip in New York City including information on passenger wait times GPS coordinates for pickup and drop-off locations trip times passenger costs and driver pay. Because of how many trips are performed daily in TLC-licensed vehicles and how long TLC has been collecting this data the number of trips to analyze now measures in the billions allowing TLCs Policy Division to be incredibly data driven.

We are seeking an Executive Director for Data Analytics and Engineering reporting to the Deputy Commissioner for Policy and Community Affairs with full latitude for the exercise independent initiative and judgment to lead the agencys data efforts. The Executive Director should be an experienced manager with deep expertise in big data analytics statistical analysis and data engineering particularly using big data to drive decisions in public sector environments. The Executive Director will be the agency expert and representative on all of the agencys licensee-submitted data and ingestion pipelines and a creative thinker who can use their organizational and planning skills effectively to develop manage and implement strategic projects including by identifying resources timelines and roles and responsibilities. The Executive Director should be excited to use their data and management skills to deliver real results for the benefit of New Yorkers and visitors driving important policy decisions relating to topics as varied as traffic congestion taxi fare regulation vehicle electrification and charging infrastructure traffic safety and Vision Zero driver pay and the use of emerging mobility technologies. The Executive Director will oversee: the use of internal and external data sources to tell data stories through data analysis interactive dashboards and data visualizations; the design implementation and maintenance of scalable data pipelines; the development and application of data validation and documentation; the expansion and use of cutting-edge technologies; and collaboration with other agency divisions including operational divisions and the IT department.

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Job Location:
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Qualifications :

1. A bachelors degree from an accredited college and 4 years of satisfactory experience of a nature to qualify for the duties and responsibilities of the position at least 18 months of which must have been in an administrative managerial consultative or executive capacity or supervising personnel performing activities related to the duties of the position; or

2. A combination of education and/or experience equivalent to 1 above.

However all candidates must have the 18 months of administrative managerial executive consultative or supervisory experience described in 1 above.

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The City of New York is an inclusive equal opportunity employer committed to recruiting and retaining a diverse workforce and providing a work environment that is free from discrimination and harassment based upon any legally protected status or protected characteristic including but not limited to an individuals sex race color ethnicity national origin age religion disability sexual orientation veteran status gender identity or pregnancy.

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