Data Service | Department of Commerce

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DATA SERVICES
FOR THE
21ST CENTURY ECONOMY

The Commerce Data Service is a public startup within the Office of the Secretary,
tasked with enhancing the contribution of data to the economy and American well-being.

Apply to Serve

A Startup within the U.S. Department of Commerce

Commerce Data Service helps the 12 Bureaus of the U.S. Department of Commerce to rapidly create and develop projects to advance the Department's mission. Organized as a new shared services model, the Data Service tackles core infrastructure issues around the Commerce Department and helps enrich human capital.

Services Jobs Apply to Serve

Data Services Supporting The Nation

Experimentation

enabling experimentation in a safe and collaborative environment

Insight

providing insight on current operations and recommendations for alignment with the industry's trajectory

Architecture

providing guidance on and blueprints for open data solutions + alternatives

Product

providing MVPs for emerging open data applications

We're hiring!

Frontend: Designer

Develop concepts and wire frames, producing sitemaps and user flows, creating clickable prototypes.
Plan + execute usability testing sessions and delivering documentation on the results and insights from the testing.
Incorporate user insight, analytics, best practice, competitor analysis, and bureau information to inform design decisions.
Executes design work consistent with design and brand standards, analytics insight, and customer feedback.
Delivers design work on programs of any size with minimal oversight.
Delivers appropriate level of specification needed to ensure high quality development on time.

Backend: Data Engineer

Create optimized parallel Map-Reduce (or similar) algorithms.
Craft Hadoop (or similar) solutions to improve performance and end-user experience.
Design and developing large-scale data structures.
Tune application and query performance against large, complex data structures.
Build efficient and robust ETL workflows. Building robust and scaleable APIs.
Solve complex data problems, which may involve successfully executing on tasks ranging from data & metadata modeling to ETL to reporting, on a daily basis.
Process unstructured data into a form suitable for analysis - and then do the analysis.

Data Scientist

conducts discovery sprints and exploratory analysis to develop the hypothesis to be tested and operationalized;
operationalize business and policy problems through mathematical, statistical, and computational techniques (e.g. machine learning + data mining, statistical research);
prototypes rapidly and iteratively client-focused data science products (e.g. predictive algorithms, discovery tools, data visualization, insightful operations-oriented dashboards);
communicate + synthesize quantitative findings to convey insights as well as to ensure reproducible products.

Frontend:Frontend Engineer

Works with the Designer and the Lead Front-End Engineer to execute on the top priority projects in the pipeline;
Implements interface designs from the Designer;
Develops (impromptu) data visualizations for DOC bureaus;
Documents process, insight and deliverables;
Identifies + Implements ways to maximise the efficiency of workflow between teams (Interoperability and Insights) in an agile process.

Backend: Infrastructure Engineer

Use a wide variety of open source technologies and cloud services (AWS is required)
Possess knowledge of best practices in an always-up, always-available service
Create cloud formation templates to build AWS services that support the team's custom applications;
Build the whole stack ELB (elastic load balancing) to databases, move and launch websites to their new locations;
Guide the team through the process in a pretty short outage window;
Work collaboratively with the Discovery and Insights teams to deploy and operate our systems - automating and streamlining operations and processes as necessary;
Build + maintain tools for deployment, monitoring and operations;
Troubleshoot + resolve issues in our dev, test and production environments;

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The Commerce Data Service collaborates with the 12 Bureaus of the U.S. Department of Commerce and private sector partners to improve data product delivery from science to society.

To apply, send a letter of interest indicating your ideal role as well as a resume/CV to: