Vancouver is consistently ranked as one of the world’s most liveable and environmentally sustainable cities. Recognized among BC’s Top Employers and Canada’s Greenest Employers, the City of Vancouver is seeking colleagues who can help advance our core commitments to exceptional public service, sustainability, equity, and an outstanding quality of life for all residents.

With a strong commitment to being a City of Reconciliation, we invite you to join our dedicated team and become part of an cutting-edge, inclusive, and engaging workplace. A career with the City of Vancouver and within the broader public service, offers meaningful work where you play a key role in ensuring equitable access to services, upholding ethical governance, and supporting the needs of citizens with integrity and dedication.

Main Purpose and Function

The Senior Solid Waste Data Systems Analyst is responsible for leading the design, implementation, governance and continuous improvement of the Solid Waste data platform, data products and business intelligence solutions. The position is responsible for technical and business requirements; design, develop, document, test, deploy and support solutions and products that allow the business to automate processes, build solutions, & analyze data; Work closely with Technology Services to develop and maintain the division’s Databricks-based data warehouse.

Using data engineering, analytics, and business intelligence technologies, the role delivers data solutions that support operational, financial, regulatory, and strategic business needs. The position works collaboratively with operational, technical, and leadership teams to transform data into actionable information and business value.





The work performed will enable Solid Waste to leverage performance metrics to support strategic, operation and financial decisions as well as support service transformation by driving accountability, improving transparency and increasing value for money. It also makes recommendations for changes to systems and processes that may impact financial and operational areas as well as staffing workloads and levels, working conditions, and changes in positions.

Specific Duties and Responsibilities

- Works as part of a project team to develop high quality, robust, maintainable business solutions
- Leads the architecture, development, deployment, and maintenance of the division's Databricks data warehouse, data pipelines, and analytics solutions.
- Provides senior technical application support for a wide range of custom and COTS applications developed using a range of platforms, tools, web frameworks, programming languages, operating systems and databases
- Leads business analysis, solution design, and technical specification development for data and analytics initiatives with complex software components and requirements.
- Leads business analysis to identify requirements, define data needs, and develop scalable data products
- Designs and generates technical specifications for complex software components and applications




- Designs and develops integrations between data platform and business systems using REST/SOAP APIs
- Develops and leads quality assurance and control procedures to ensure accuracy and completeness of business data and outputs.
- Develops analytics strategies, performance measures, forecasts, and decision-support products to inform departmental planning and strategic direction.
- Creates data products using PowerBI or custom development of data products, visualizations, and analysis
- Leads and facilitates testing activities for products including preparation of test data, scripts, environments for unit, integration, and user testing. Debugs and reworks as needed.
- Ensures reliability, performance, security, and availability of production data solutions created by the team
- Stays current with developments in advanced analytics, programming languages, data modeling, integration tools, database technologies, data visualization tools, techniques, and best design practices.
- Applies business analysis, process improvement, service design, and performance measurement methodologies to identify and implement operational improvements.
- Assesses operational data, technology, people, policy, governance, and change-management implications of proposed process changes.
- Responsible for applying the City’s data governance standards and quality controls and acts as a data steward for the division
- Presents findings to departmental leaders and other stakeholders.
- Develops and maintains effective working relationships with stakeholders in business, operational, technical, and leadership groups.
- Develops and maintains user training and documentation.
- Provides day-to-day leadership and guidance to s

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