BC Public Service - Internal Job Opportunities

This is a restricted lateral posting open to employees who hold a Grid 30 base position

Job Overview
To provide expert technical oversight, deliver long-term strategic priorities, lead data quality initiatives, and set standards for data administration and the ministry’s data architecture, ensuring integrity for the ministry’s data resource, and making the ministry a leader in managing information for effective business use. To represent the ministry on information management committees, engineer data administration functions, develop policy, stay updated on data management technologies, and may manage multi-year data management projects and approve training strategies. 

Qualifications:
Education and Experience Requirements

• Master's degree in a computer science related field and 3 years of related experience; or

• Bachelor's degree in a computer science related field and 4 years related experience; or 

• Diploma in a computer science related field and 5 years related experience; or 

• Certificate or coursework in a computer science related field and 6 years related experience; or 

• An equivalent combination of education and experience may be considered.
   

Related Experience must include:

• Experience in information resource management, corporate data design, data modeling, data analysis, data warehousing and data management principles.

• Experience in establishing, administration, and continuous development of Azure resources for data and analytics purposes.

• Experience supervising staff.
   

Preference may be given to candidates with: 

• Experience building and maintaining ETL/ELT pipelines in a medallion lakehouse architecture (bronze/silver/gold).

• Experience with Microsoft Fabric, including Lakehouses, Pipelines, Notebooks, and Dataflows Gen2.

• Experience in applied use of data and analytics libraries for R and Python 

• Experience with SQL development.  
   

For questions regarding this position, please contact James.McFarlane@gov.bc.ca

About this Position:
Remote work is allowed, this position can work up to full time from their home in British Columbia subject to an approved Telework Agreement. The locations listed above are to assist applicants in searching for this opportunity and are not a complete list of locations.
An eligibility list may be established to fill future temporary and permanent vacancies.
Please refer to MyHR for more information on Market Adjustments*
A Criminal Record Check (CRC) will be required. 
Employees of the BC Public Service must be located in BC at the time of employment.

Working for the BC Public Service:
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How to Apply:
Your resume and/or cover letter must clearly show that you meet the education and experience requirements. Highlight the required qualifications and support them with specific examples, such as your responsibilities, projects you've worked on, or accomplishments. Find more information on the recruitment process, including helpful tips and videos about the application process, visit the Your Job Application page of MyHR.

Cover Letter: NO - Please do not submit a cover letter as it will not be reviewed.

Resume: YES - Ensure your resume includes your educational accomplishments, employment history including start and end dates (month and year) of your employment, and any relevant information that relates to the job to which you are applying.

Questionnaire: YES - You will need to complete a basic questionnaire to demonstrate how you meet the job requirements.

Applicants who are selected to move forward in the hiring process may be assessed on their knowledge, skills, abilities, competencies and other position related requirements as outlined in the Job Profile at the bottom of the posting. Applications will be accepted until 11:00 pm Pacific Time on the closing date of the competition. If you are experiencing technical difficulty applying, visit the Technical Assistance page of MyHR.