Lead Business Intelligence Analyst
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Job Description
Responsible for designing, developing and supporting dashboard, analytic and reporting solutions for a wide variety of business intelligence data sets in support of assigned business partners. Directly accountable for designing and building complex queries into enterprise data stores to retrieve information in a manner that allows current and future BI tools to express the data in meaningful ways and answer the analytic questions being asked by their customers. This role will work with CSE/BEST/Processing Services
Responsibilities:
Develops creative and innovative ways to answer critical business questions by augmenting existing data assets or driving the development of new ones. Leverages technical expertise and data story-telling abilities to transform the business requirements into impactful and efficient analytic solutions leveraging the full power of all enterprise Business Intelligence tools available.
Functions as a BI technical consultant, partnering with business users to gather, document and develop data and information requirements to answer the business questions being asked. Researches and identifies the correct enterprise data stores to use as the source of truth for the information, working in close partnership with the technology and business teams.
Ensures all assigned projects adhere to the enterprise design standards for visual design, data governance and performance, including cross validation of source data, development of routine data quality checks, and performance testing under different enterprise load conditions.
Guides the User Acceptance testing, project documentation and deployment processes for all assigned BI projects, including regular reoccurring project updates on completion status to project sponsors.
Provide all facets of support for all deployed Business Intelligence projects, identifies root cause of issues and actively participates in guiding resolution.
Qualifications:
Minimum-
Bachelors in Information Technology, Mathematics, Statistics, Analytics. 6+ years Data Analytics and Query Design in a quantitatively driven industry or related
2+ years Hands on experience developing optimized, complex SQL queries across large volumes of data in both relational and multi-dimensional data sources such as Teradata, Hadoop, Amazon Redshift, or Hyperion Essbase or related
2+ years Hands on experience utilizing industry leading Business Intelligence Tools such as Tableau, Power BI or Qlikview to develop robust, interactive and visually impactful dashboards or related
In Lieu of Education Experience:
8+ years of experience in Data Analytics and Query Design in a quantitatively driven industry or related
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience developing queries and table structures within Snowflake databases
- Experience working within financial services industry, preferably related to credit and/or banking
- Experience working with call center data and preparing associated analyses
- Experience creating scalable source-to-target data transformation processes
- Working knowledge of Python and/or R as for the purposes of collecting, cleansing, transforming, analyzing, and visualizing data
- Experience with data visualization and storytelling techniques in order to provide business insight
- Experience using CI/CD tool such as Github, Jenkins, SonarCube, etc in order to streamline and automate data pipelines
- Practical understanding of descriptive statistics and statistical modeling
- Working knowledge of Openshift/Kubernetes
- Working knowledge of Openshift/Kubernetes
- Operational knowledge of linux CLI and scripting
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