Technical Data Analyst

Description


Assists with analyzing complex business problems to be solved with automated systems.

As part of a software project implementation team assists in implementing software projects by mapping business processes, producing documentation, establishing acceptance testing criteria.

Duties and tasks are standard with some variation. Completes own role largely independently within defined policies and procedures. Key skills and abilities include coaching, influencing, facilitation, presentation, communication, process development, analysis, and problem solving. Ability to travel as necessary. Prefer 2 years relevant experience and BA/BS degree.

Responsibilities

Main responsibilities: 

• Elicit and gather requirements and use cases for proof-of-concept and approved initiatives. Testing and validation of the requirements vs what the developers implemented.
• Deeply understand the needs of key internal customers through quantitative and qualitative research. Work with developers, PMs, analysts, architects, and QA staff to ensure that they fully understand the requirements.
• Participate in developing the overall design and implementation of custom structures, codes, searches and reports. Provide functional design, current and future state flows, testing approach, and impact analysis.
• Adeptness in data collection, which includes downloading files from BI tools, web scrapping, querying data using API calls, internal database query (i.e., MongoDB)
• Understand the concept of data exploration and data preprocessing, including data cleaning, data normalization, features extraction, instance selection, etc.
• Ability to tell a compelling story with data using data visualization techniques.
• Manage team backlog and prioritize product enhancements and critical requests by making smart, decisive trade-offs using data-driven analysis and sound judgment.
• Collaborate with team members and process owners to deliver great products and tools. Ensure all solutions achieve the defined business objectives and success metrics.  Provide analytical support for implemented projects.
• Ability to work a shifting schedule to accommodate team members in US  Pacific time – (4AM – 1PM PT)

 

Minimum Qualifications:

• 2 or more years product development, or technical professional services experience.
• Familiarity with general programming languages, particularly python and corresponding environments, design patterns, and python libraries such as Pandas, NumPy, Matplotlib, Seaborn, Beautiful Soup, etc.
• Experience with business analytics services and database tools such as PowerBI, Tableau, SQL.
• General understanding of API
• Ability to make recommendations and decisions independently and make convincing arguments for the direction of the products.
• Strong organizational skills: task prioritization, effective time management, meeting facilitation, conflict resolution, and risk identification and mitigation.
• Excellent communication. A track record of successfully working with a combination of local and remote development, QA, and technical writing team to deliver quality products. Experience working with remote teams is critical to success
• Computer Science or similar degree.