Senior Analytics Engineer

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**This role can be performed remotely in the Des Moines, Iowa metro area with the ability to work on-site one day per week**

Essential Functions:

Business Intelligence & Analytics Lifecycle:

• Leads highly complex and enterprise-wide business analysis activities to gather stakeholders’ reporting and dashboard requirements.

• Determines stakeholders’ objectives, important metrics and method of performance measurement.

• Develops advanced data and analytic products implementing technology best practices, guidelines and repeatable processes.

• Collaborates with business units and subject matter experts to capture complex analytical requirements.

• Maintains highly complex curated data sets and analytical solutions.

Data Modeling & Technical Design:

• Leads the design of scalable and efficient complex data models optimized for analytic and business intelligence tools. 

• Develops highly complex data models that support advanced analytic products.

• Provides reporting architecture services on projects and keeps a reporting reference architecture up to date for the data analytic product teams. 

• Acts as liaison during IT architectural conversations to help drive new architectural needs and align with best practices.

• Serves as a subject matter expert regarding technical design, analytics lifecycle and business intelligence best practices.

Development & Implementation:

• Writes highly complex code to transform raw data into clean, structured data sets including data cleansing, aggregation, and other necessary business rules and transformations.

• Translates complex business requirements into technical requirements to implement reports and dashboards created from multiple data sources.

• Determines and analyzes the data sources required for each report.

• Develops complex reporting schemas and data sets.

• Builds highly complex, including enterprise wide reports, dashboards and visualizations using business intelligence tools.

• Reviews report changes and documents to ensure proper configuration management and change controls are implemented for report development and analytic life cycle. 

• Serves as a technical resource to other Analytics Engineering team members.

Communication & Collaboration:

• Promotes continuous improvement through business intelligence practices.

• Partners with leadership to integrate improved business intelligence in functions’ processes, workflows, and decision-making methods.

• Collaborates with IT leaders to increase EMC's business intelligence maturity.

• Communicates and explains the results of team deliverables to stakeholders. 

• Serves as a technical expert and resource to other analytics engineers.

• Collaborates with Data Governance to help maintain analytic catalogues and metadata assets.

Innovation & Advanced Analytics:

• Identifies necessary system enhancements to deploy new products and process enhancements.

• Researches and investigates new technologies and methodologies to enhance advanced analytical and operational performance, focusing on regional and/or local data source exploration and supporting advanced analytics sandboxes.

• Works cross-functionally with Innovation to integrate Generative AI opportunities with data analytics products.

• Applies Machine Learning (ML) techniques and augmented analytics capabilities to automatically generate insights for end users.

• Analyzes current state of business intelligence maturity and identifies opportunities for improvement.

Education & Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree, preferably in a computer science, analytics, or business related field or equivalent relevant experience

• Eight years of experience in data and analytics programs or related experience

• Prior experience with BI products, such as Power BI or Tableau

• Experience in semantic layer and schema designs

• Experience in descriptive statistics and preparing big data sets preferred

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities:

• Superior knowledge of Cognos, Tableau, Power BI or similar product

• Strong report architecture and reference architecture skills

• Excellent Microsoft Excel skills

• Strong knowledge of database platforms such as MongoDB, Hortonworks, Azure, and AWS

• Superior knowledge of SQL, Python or R

• Excellent knowledge of SQLdbm

• Excellent ability to build processes supporting data transformation, data structures, metadata, dependency and workload management

• Advanced ability to manipulate, process and extract value from large disconnected datasets

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills and presentation skills

• Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities

• Ability to work independently and as part of a team

• Excellent project coordination skills and attention to detail

The hiring salary range for this position will vary based on geographic location, falling within either of the following:

A hiring range represents a subset of the full salary range. The actual salary will depend on several factors, including relevant education, skills, and experience of an applicant, geographic location, and business needs.

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