What are the responsibilities and job description for the Data Analyst- WV position at SiloSmashers?
Role Summary
Provides hands-on data review, quality checks, ingestion validation, and routine analytic support for national crime-reporting datasets. Works closely with program staff to ensure data completeness, accuracy, and consistency across multiple collection systems.
Key Duties
- Perform routine data-quality checks, validation, and completeness assessments.
- Compare data across systems and verify accuracy during data ingestion and transformation.
- Identify anomalies resulting from RMS programming or reporting practices.
- Support analysis of legacy summary reporting versus incident-based reporting.
- Update and maintain existing Power BI dashboards; assist in building new reports.
- Prepare summary reports and findings for program leadership.
- Validate XML and flat-file submissions and ensure business rules are properly applied.
- Assist with documentation of data-quality processes and workflow steps.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Data Analytics, Statistics, Criminal Justice, Information Systems, or related field.
- Working knowledge of Power BI (visualizations, dataset refresh, basic DAX).
- Ability to identify data anomalies and clearly articulate findings.
- Familiarity with XML or flat-file datasets.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with crime-data reporting, public-sector data programs, or RMS systems.
- Understanding of data-quality standards and basic statistical methods.