About Our Team:

KAR Data Services is expanding our Analytics team, delivering advanced insights and embedded analytics supporting teams across the organization as well as our customers.

About Our Candidate:

Our ideal candidate will have strong SQL skills and experience modeling data for BI use. They will have a love of data, and effective communication both with our data science and analytics teams, as well as our business stakeholders and product teams.

What You Will Be Doing:

• Designing data models for use in BI self-service tools and supporting our embedded analytics platform
• Supporting our data science teams with deploying data models
• Support data discovery and data governance by maintaining data dictionaries and data lineage
• Provide quality assurance and testing on our most critical data pipelines
• Support answering business questions using analysis and visualization techniques

What You Need to Be Successful:

• Candidates typically have at least a Bachelor’s degree in a quantitative or computer science field, or equivalent professional experience
• Ability to read and explain query plans and optimize those queries and underlying data stores as necessary
• Understanding of common statistical measures and practices
• Distilling business requirements into actionable technical tasks
• Excellent oral and written communication skills

Nice to Haves:

• Experience working with Snowflake SQL syntax
• Experience with deploying data models in Tableau or Sisense specifically, or another equivalent BI tool
• Familiarity with data science models and deployment in a production environment
• Python, as well as common libraries associated with data such as Pandas and Numpy
• Experience in cloud environments, preferably AWS or Azure, or equivalent platforms

Who We Are:

KAR Data Services, KAR Global’s enterprise data products organization, is comprised of a team that is passionate about the intersection of data, technology, and cars. As the Chicago-based innovation and data science hub for KAR, this team of data scientists and analysts creates new products to help power the company’s physical, online, and digital/mobile automotive auction marketplaces. We were founded in 2015 and joined the KAR family of companies in April 2017.