Senior Data Scientist at City of New York
New York City, NY
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Jul 9, 2026
New York City, NY
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A lead data scientist role within a municipal parks agency's Innovation & Performance Management division, open only to current full-time annually paid parks employees. The work centers on building and refining analytical models, geospatial analyses, and data pipelines to support operational and strategic decisions — including park accessibility studies and visitation estimates. The role also involves shaping data infrastructure, collaborating with internal and external partners, and communicating findings to varied audiences including senior leadership and the public.
Senior level · 3+ years · New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PA · Master's required · Full-time
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 2,100 people in the New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PA area plausibly meet what this posting asks for (data scientists). range 1,600–2,750
Applicant volume Heavy — This req sits in a large pool with little in its requirements to thin it, and auto-apply tools fire at everything in the occupation. Applying early and leading with the rare skills below is what gets read.
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $138,970 (middle half $103,548–$176,968).
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (7)
This posting is explicitly restricted to current full-time, annually paid NYC Parks employees — external candidates are ineligible.
The civil service title is 'City Research Scientist' (title code 21744). The minimum qualification for Assignment Level II and above (the level implied by the lead/senior scope) is a master's degree plus 3 years of full-time research experience, or a doctorate plus 1 year; the overall years minimum is set to 3 to reflect the master's-track minimum.
No specific programming languages or data science frameworks (e.g., Python, R, SQL) are named anywhere in the posting despite the senior data science scope — skills are extracted only from what is explicitly stated.
Tableau is named directly in the responsibilities section as a concrete integration target (not merely a preferred tool), so it is treated as a hard requirement.
Open Data / Open Data Week is referenced in a context/narrative capacity rather than as a gated skill, so it is marked preferred.
No compensation figures are advertised in the posting.
Ignored 4 non-technology phrase(s) as skills (responsibilities/concepts, not named tools): geospatial data analysis, data pipeline development, analytical modeling, workflow automation.
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