Data Engineer (1042) - Data Enablement - DataSF, Office of City Administrator
City and County of San Francisco · CA, US
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About the Role
The Data Engineer will be part of our data enablement practice, helping City departments bring their data onto the platform and put it to work. This is a hands-on engineering role focused on building and maintaining production data pipelines, developing and testing data models in dbt on Snowflake, and transitioning publishing workflows from legacy systems to the platform. The role offers close collaboration with senior engineers for code review and mentorship, and interaction with department analysts to understand data sources.
Responsibilities
- Build and maintain production data pipelines with tests and documentation.
- Develop data models in dbt to transform raw department data into clean, well-documented tables.
- Create financial and budget data products to support migration off legacy reporting.
- Support platform cost and usage reporting.
- Help transition publishing workflows from legacy systems onto the platform, including public-facing open data feeds.
- Investigate and resolve data quality issues by tracing errors to their source, fixing problems, and adding tests.
- Support department onboarding by helping analysts understand and use built models.
- Participate in code review and grow into reviewing others’ code.
Requirements
- One (1) year of experience analyzing, installing, configuring, enhancing, and/or maintaining system or platform components.
- Experience building real data-moving or data-transforming projects.
- Ability to write SQL.
- Familiarity with at least one programming language, ideally Python.
- Strong attention to numerical accuracy and instinct for identifying when data doesn’t look right.
- Strong potential and intuition working with data, with the ability to learn new tools and the platform stack on the job.
Skills
- SQL
- Python
- dbt
- Snowflake
- Terraform
Location
- San Francisco
Work Type
- Full Time
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- Journey
Education Level
- Associate degree in computer science, computer engineering, information systems, or a closely related field, or equivalent coursework.
- Completion of the 1010 Information Systems Trainee Program.
Benefits
- Employee Benefits Overview
About the Company
- The Office of the City Administrator includes 20+ agencies and over 1,000 dedicated staff who provide essential services to San Francisco residents and businesses and improve the administration of government.
- The City Administrator’s Office is strongly committed to ensuring efficient and effective government services, increasing the City’s safety and resiliency, strengthening the local economy, supporting equity and inclusion, and optimizing the City’s capital planning and infrastructure.
- DataSF’s mission is to transform the way San Francisco works with data, believing that data can improve transparency, resident engagement, and government performance.
- DataSF runs the City’s open data program and the Unified Data Platform (UDP), supporting citywide priorities such as permitting, street coordination, and public safety.
Equal Opportunity
- The City and County of San Francisco encourages women, minorities and persons with disabilities to apply. Applicants will be considered regardless of their sex, race, age, religion, color, national origin, ancestry, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition (associated with cancer, a history of cancer, or genetic characteristics), HIV/AIDS status, genetic information, marital status, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, military and veteran status, or other protected category under the law.