Senior Data Analyst – Enterprise Data

Job duties include contact with other employees and access confidential and proprietary information and / or other items of value, and such access may be supervised or unsupervised.

The Company therefore has determined that a review of criminal history is necessary to protect the business and its operations and reputation and is necessary to protect the safety of the Company’s staff, employees, and business relationships.

Essential Functions Strategy & Planning

• Work with SMEs and IT peers to research, review, and recommend data and datasets that are fit for purpose.
• Partner with the business and other IT groups to understand, document and source data.
• Work with the Data Governance Team to ensure that governance objectives align with EDI strategy.
• Understanding of Data Profiling concepts to support data quality efforts.
• Work with business representatives to understand needs and collaborate in generating the best solution to solve business needs.
• Drive best in class data engineering practices that include standard software development life cycle practices.

Acquisition & Deployment

• Provide documentation and guidance for business / technical efforts for large sized efforts.
• Develop business case justifications and cost / benefit analyses for IT spending and initiatives.
• Collaborate with source system teams to effectively synchronize data elements while reducing dual storage requirements as much as possible.
• Collaborate with downstream systems to ensure data is understood and meets the requirements of consumers.
• Liaise with vendors for efficient implementation of agreed upon deliverables.
• Lead the defining, building, and validation of acceptance criteria.

Operational Management

Participate with the development of team norms, support agile methodologies, and participate within the Agile community.

Share Agile best practices with the program.

• Lead the creation and implementation of high impact internal team process improvement. Ensure cooperation with peer functional areas.
• Documentation of work. Includes System Flows, Data Flows, Process Flows, Detail design for project and capability level efforts.
• Provide guidance to the team by assisting team members in understanding efforts needed to complete tasks. Provide direction on solving complex activities.
• Ability to support simultaneous work efforts. Manage multiple across program projects, assignments, and priorities.
• Reduce complexity and cost.
• Ensure cooperation with peer functional areas.
• Ensure all Global Data Privacy obligations are met in compliance with current company policy.

Incidental Functions

• Assists Quality Assurance (QA type activities). Collaborates with the development of test scripts and performs manual testing.
• Training. Ability to train / mentor program members regarding the Analyst role. Ability to review and share amongst others on the team.

Formal Education & Certification

Bachelor’s Degree (or foreign equivalent) or in lieu of a degree, at least 12 years in experience in the field of Information Technology or Business (work experience or a combination of education and work experience in the field of Information Technology or Business)

Knowledge & Experience

Required

• 5+ years IT experience
• 3 years of Business Analyst, Data Analyst, or Technology Analyst experience.
• 3 years of SQL, P-SQL, or ANSI SQL.
• 3 years of knowledge of SDLC.
• Knowledge of various tools such as Word, Excel, Mural, Visio, and Control-M.
• Knowledge of Agile, Jira, and ETL.
• Experience with data warehousing and database constructs.

Preferred Knowledge & Experience Not Required :

• Detailed understanding of data flows across SW internal systems.
• Experience working with various Business Teams and ability to translate their requirements into IT action plans.
• Proven track record of success in high pressure, fast paced environments.
• Knowledge and understanding of concepts and tools for data fabrics, data mesh, data catalogs, and universal semantic layers.

Personal Attributes

• Strong written and oral communication skills.
• Strong analytical, conceptual, and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to train and teach others.
• Experience working in a team oriented, collaborative environment.
• Effectively move forward on tasks even with ambiguous or changing requirements.
• Ability to translate ideas into a completed solution.
• Ability to present ideas in user-friendly language.
• Be effective in a globally focused, multi-cultural environment.
• Flexibility and adaptability to change and embrace it.
• Excellent people skills.
• Strong commitment to inclusion and diversity

This position is eligible to work in the office three days a week and has the option to work remotely two days a week.