Help Metro Get Smarter: Now Hiring Business Intelligence Analyst
If you are great with data and love cities and transit, we have a job for you.
We were excited to announce that a job listing for a Business Intelligence Analyst position within Planning’s Applied Planning Intelligence unit has just been posted. We are looking for a healthy overlap between a data scientist and a transit nerd. For the full job description, head over to the wmata.com/careers site, scroll down and click on View all jobs. A short description is posted below.
Currently a team of two, we work to convert Metro’s many data sources into information that can be used to inform plans, policies and procedures. Many of our projects have been featured here on PlanItMetro, including:
- Modeling the impact of land use on Metrorail ridership
- SafeTrack customer impacts and monitoring
- Supporting the (app) developer community
- The development of the SelectPass pilot
- Understanding the impact of SmartBenefits and federal workforce policies on the region
- Developing data visualizations to help better communicate what we’re learning from our data sources
- Writing for and managing the PlanItMetro blog
The Washington Metropolitan Transportation Authority is seeking a candidate to join our recently formed Applied Planning Intelligence Unit, a small group of analysts who work as an internal consulting group specializing in transforming our many operational data sources into information and visualizations to inform operations, policy and plans. A successful candidate will be comfortable in an Oracle and Microsoft Office environment that requires critical thinking and creative problem solving, while also bringing new ideas and new skills to the team. Prefered new analytical skills could include R, D3, Processing, SAS, IBM SPSS Modeler, and Python.
We look forward to seeing the resumes that come in. Please let anyone who might be interested know about this great opportunity.
It took me all of ten minutes after seeing this link on Greater Greater Washington to send in my application. I love this stuff and would be ecstatic to have the opportunity to annoy my social circle even more with Metro-related facts and figures.