Data/BA Analyst

Objectives of this role

• Develop, implement, and maintain leading-edge analytics systems, taking complicated problems and building simple frameworks

• Identify opportunities for growth through analysis of complex datasets

• Evaluate organizational methods, provide source-to-target mappings and information-model specification documents for datasets

• Create best-practice reports based on data mining, analysis, and visualization

• Evaluate systems for efficiency, problems, and inaccuracies, and maintain protocols for handling, processing, and cleaning data

Responsibilities

• Work closely with project managers to understand and maintain focus on their analytics needs, including critical metrics and KPIs, and deliver actionable insights to relevant decision-makers

• Proactively analyze data to answer questions, with an eye on what drives business performance, and investigate and communicate which areas need improvement in efficiency and productivity

• Experience with data visualizations - experience distilling complex data into actionable data insights using various data visualization techniques.

• Define and implement data acquisition and integration logic, selecting an appropriate combination of methods and tools within the defined technology stack to ensure optimal scalability and performance of the solution

• Develop and maintain databases by acquiring data from primary/secondary sources, build scripts that will make the data evaluation process more flexible or scalable across datasets

• Interpret data, analyze results using statistical techniques and provide ongoing reports

• Develop and implement databases, data collection systems, data analytics strategies that optimize statistical efficiency and quality

• Identify, analyze, and interpret trends or patterns in complex data sets

Required skills and qualifications

• Experience with data visualizations - distilling complex data into actionable data insights using various data visualization techniques.

• Technical writing experience in relevant areas, including queries, reports, and presentations

• Strong SQL or Excel skills, with aptitude for learning other analytics tools, such as using KQL in Azure Log Analytics workbooks.

• Comfortable working with log data and familiar with basic network terminology.

• Technical expertise regarding data models, database design development, data mining and segmentation techniques

• Strong knowledge and experience with reporting packages (SAP-Business Objects etc), databases (SQL etc), programming (XML, Javascript, or ETL frameworks)

• Knowledge of statistics and experience using statistical packages for analyzing datasets (Excel, SPSS, SAS etc)

• Strong analytical skills to collect, organize, analyze, and disseminate significant amounts of information- attention to detail and accuracy

• Adept at queries, report writing and presenting findings

• BS in Mathematics, Economics, Computer Science, Information Management or Statistics