Salt Lake County…A career with a purpose in the community you love!

Salt Lake County invites you to explore our exciting career opportunities. We seek highly enthusiastic individuals to enrich our County with your experience and talent. If you enjoy working in a team environment that is committed to changing the lives of its community, please keep reading.

What it is like to work here:

At Salt Lake County our culture is woven into all aspects of our work and our employees’ lives, from the way we treat each other to the way we support the community.  To promote and foster a fun and healthy work environment, we appreciate employees through great benefits, a healthy work life balance and room to grow and develop.

Surround yourself with:

Peers who are motivated to make a difference in the lives of those we serve. We serve Salt Lake County and envision a safe and beautiful place for all to live work and have fun. Salt Lake County is about connecting people and championing our community.  Community is more than a place….its our heart and service that bring us together.

We encourage a work life balance:

Working for Salt Lake County is more than just a paycheck.  A career with /Salt Lake County includes several benefits and perks.  We support our employees with 12 Holidays, up to 24 vacation days, 12 sick days and one personal day every year.  We work in a hybrid environment giving you flexibility to manage working from home and being in office.

Additional Benefits include:

• Retirement options for hybrid pension/401(k) or 401(k) only with a 10% contribution

Medical coverage including a 100% county paid premium option-Dental and Vision coverage including coverage for adult designees

• Health Savings account with a county contribution up to $1200/year, Flexible Spending Account
• 100% county-paid Long-Term Disability and Short-Term Disability option
• Professional Development
• Plus: Onsite medical clinic, childcare and gym; hospital insurance, pet insurance auto and home insurance and discounts at County facilities.

JOB SUMMARY

The Data and Analytics team builds solutions to manage, analyze, and present data across a wide variety of Salt Lake County agencies.  Our primary tools are Talend, Python, Power BI, and SQL Server. This role may involve interactive dashboards, reports, data pipelines, and data integrations.  Successful candidates will exhibit curiosity, excellent problem-solving skills, and attention to detail.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university in Computer Science or other closely related field OR an equivalent combination of four (4) years of related education and experience.

Due to the nature of this position, the successful applicant must pass a required background check through fingerprinting and enrollment in the continuous RAP Back (Record of Arrest and Prosecution Back) program in accordance with current County Human Resources policy requirements.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS

• Analyzes and troubleshoots technical issues and identifies modifications needed in applications to meet changing user requirements.
• Assists with analysis, profiling, and documentation of business information systems and applications.
• Works with other engineers, programmers, and analysts in planning, prioritizing, and executing assigned tasks within deadlines.
• Assists in analysis and troubleshooting of technical issues.
• Assists in preparing training documents and training application users as needed.
• Works with the Quality Assurance (QA) team in preparing test cases, plans, and procedures.

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILITIES (KSA)

Knowledge of: 

• Application design and engineering
• Common programming languages and standards, e.g., C#, Java, Python, .Net, REST, SOAP, JSON, XML, SQL, HTML, etc.
• Software development environments and tools, e.g., Microsoft Visual Studio, Eclipse, Git, etc.
• Databases, data design, data warehousing, data modeling (e.g., MS SQL Server, Oracle, Informix, etc.)
• Information security, networking, access control, application configuration, application monitoring, and application performance

Skills and Abilities to:

• Communicate effectively both verbally and in writing, listen and understand, and disseminate information and ideas
• Maintain confidentiality and professionalism
• Remain calm under stress and quickly adjust, evolve, and multitask between several competing priorities at once
• Logically and systematically analyze and solve problems

Due to the nature of this position, the successful applicant must pass a required background check through fingerprinting and enrollment in the continuous RAP Back (Record of Arrest and Prosecution Back) program in accordance with current County Human Resources policy requirements.