GOAPRDJP00000593 - Data Analytics Specialist

Job Title: GOAPRDJP00000593 - Data Analytics Specialist
Client: Government of Alberta
Work Location: 7000 - 113 ST, Edmonton, Alberta CAN, T6H 5T6, Edmonton Alberta, CAN, T5J 5C6, Remote
Estimated Start Date: 09/06/2025
Estimated End Date: 29/05/2026
#Business Days: 252.00  
Estimated Hours per Day: 7.25
Maximum Duration of Extension: 12 Months

Description
Project Name:
Data Projects
Scope:
The Data and Content Management Division uses a one-government approach to information and privacy governance, decision-making, and service delivery across the Government of Alberta (GoA) balanced with individual client needs. This facilitates enhanced data access, collaboration, reduction in data duplication, and innovation to ensure effective and efficient services across the government to provide better services to Albertans.
The Data Centre of Excellence requires a resource to support the design and development of analytical data products & services to enable the GoA to better leverage its data assets support implementation of the GoA Data Strategy. Working within a team, this resource is an expert, and plays a key role in ensuring high-quality data modeling, applying algorithms, de-identification, synthetic data creation, visualizations and development of evidence for use across ministries and with external stakeholders. This role will enact the pillars of the Data Strategy by using data to benefit Albertans
The successful candidate will be a Data Analytics Specialist / Data Scientist with a diverse range of analytical skills and experience in working in multi-faceted roles. The role may have aspects of any or all the following: data analysis, data science, data modelling, statistical analysis, artificial intelligence (AI) & machine learning (ML), strategizing, advising, data product design and delivery. There may be aspects of data engineering, technical analysis, and business analysis.
Duties:
Provides hands-on support, leadership, advice and direction on the strategic data initiatives that are being undertaken as part of the Data Strategy. A critical responsibility is to coordinate with various internal and external clients to understand their analytics needs and how to use the data to best meet these needs. This resource is an expert in anticipating, identifying and responding to diverse and complex data analytic requirements across GoA departments and from external organizations, while also aligning with other areas of branch and broader department. Services and project deliverables should evolve as the work progresses, in response to emerging user and business needs, as well as design and technical opportunities. Works with Manager Analytics Capability Centre to:
Provide expertise and leadership in the design and competition of analytic projects
Develop and share data models and products
Provide continuous improvement of analytics capacities
Design and support development of analytic service offerings
Analyze and organize raw data, preparing it for prescriptive and predictive modeling, while building algorithms that deliver business value.
Evaluating business needs, enhancing data quality, and designing analytical tools to support our data services.
Conducting complex data analysis and collaborating with data engineers and analysts on various projects.
Coaching and mentorship team members, fostering a client-centric approach and encouraging innovative solutions.
Working closely with senior management to support a cultural shift toward data as a strategic asset and maintain effective relationships with internal and external stakeholders.
Create and present options, roadmaps, frameworks, models, and briefings for senior executives with regards to analytics services, based on best and emerging practices and principles.
Facilitate strategic conversations to develop shared understanding and generate options for decision-making to align diverse stakeholder interests and goals.
Develop baseline and ongoing outcomes, key results, metrics, and other indicators.
Work as part of a team responsible for the generalizable extraction of knowledge
from data by applying various techniques and methodologies including probability models, machine learning, computer programming, statistics, data engineering, pattern recognition and learning, and data visualizations
Experience in Data Analytics or as a Data Scientist.
Apply skills to provide insights, support decision-making and facilitate strategic business planning across the department.
Requires a focus on understanding predictive analytics and needs-based analytics strategies to simplify, consistently produce and re-use analytical models and assets to drive measurable value.
Provide executives and decision makers a deeper understanding of their operations,
transactions, services and information required for them to identify new opportunities
that can only be uncovered through analytics.
Provide depth and insights on GoA’s data assets and transform them into meaningful analytics for decision making
Bring knowledge of statistical classification techniques such as k-means and hierarchical clustering, partition trees, and logistic regression.
Integrate both quantitative and qualitative data to create business insights.
Design and create dashboards and custom reporting with various data sources and inputs.
Analyze data and prepare results.
Gather and document client requirements.
Capture business and technical metadata for analytical products.
Escalate issues and risks, as appropriate.
Work within a multi-vendor/staff environment.
Deliverables:
Specific deliverables and due dates will be determined by the client team in conjunction with project management.
Status reports - weekly and monthly.