Program Data Scientist

About this role

# Program Data Scientist

• DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Posted on

08/03/2026

• Full-time

Location

NYC-ALL BOROS

• No exam required

Department

Tf. Eng./Elect Shop

Salary range: $109,565.00 – $142,112.00

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## Job Description

The Program Data Scientist designs and leads the analytics behind the Division of Traffic Operations’ traffic signal capital program building the data systems, methods, and analyses that make a large, fast-moving portfolio of projects visible, understandable, and actionable. Working as a peer to the program’s delivery manager, this role turns project, contract, and asset data into the insight that keeps signal infrastructure moving from design completion to final acceptance and keeps the streets that depend on it working. The Program Data Scientist will support the NYC Streets Plan by turning project and contract data into actionable insight that ensures signal installations advance transit priority corridors, Better Buses projects, and other transit supportive street improvements.


This is an applied research role with wide latitude to define the analytical approach: what to measure across hundreds of concurrent projects and multiple contractors, how to structure the data, and how to present it so decision-makers can act quickly. The strongest candidates are fluent in Python and GIS, rigorous about data quality, and able to translate complex analysis for non-technical audiences. As the program’s first dedicated analyst, you’ll shape from the ground up how data serves the delivery of public infrastructure.


About NYC DOT and the Division of Traffic Operations

NYC DOT works to support the safe, equitable, and sustainable movement of people and goods across New York City. Within NYC DOT, the Division of Traffic Operations delivers and sustains the systems that help New Yorkers and visitors move safely and efficiently every day.


Traffic Operations manages the infrastructure that keeps New York City’s streets...