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Data Analyst

Duration: 6 Months, Contract
Location: Cincinnati, OH, 45202

JOB DESCRIPTION
A monetary force, this company, with over one hundred and fifty billion dollars in annual revenue is the pulse of the retail industry. By having over 2,750 different locations in thirty-five states, there is no doubt that this company directly impacts the lives of many people in the American populous, and, by extension, in the world populous. Being a part of such a massive retail organization can be intimidating, but this company, through their subsidiaries, is able to maintain personal relationships with their employees. Through intentionality, integrity, and innovation, this company is able to be an ideal workplace that excites and has a profound impact on several communities. This company fully understands that by working together there is no limit to what can be created.

 

This Lead Data Analyst will analyze data and technology to solve real customer problems in ways that meet the needs of the business. This Analyst will work with your key stakeholders and partners to understand, map, and solve problems with our data enabling the right things for our customers that deliver value to our business.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Guarding and maintaining the data architecture; ensuring your data is easily discoverable, addressable, trustworthy, self-describing, interoperable, secure and follows global standards
• Being an information conduit for data, collaborating with cross functional teams (product managers, engineers, data scientists) to solve business problems
• Communicating findings by mapping and documenting how new data fits into the ecosystem understanding the impact of changes to downstream consumption
• Finding the root cause to anomalies and collaborate on the corrective course of action
• Providing input and feedback into a product roadmap and overall integration of data with products considering the data lifecycle
• Managing data with a product mindset – focus on outcomes (over outputs), problems to solve, the goals of your data and key metrics of success; as part of the team, responsible to collaboratively work together to think of a strategy that is believed to result in the best product solution for our customers
• Collaborating with vendor technical teams – coordinating issues, new data needs or requesting enhancements
• Being a curious data wizard with built-in curiosity that intrinsically makes you the subject matter expert
• Being a Data Steward – guardian and maintainer of the data architecture; ensuring your data is easily discoverable, addressable, trustworthy, self-describing, interoperable, secure and follows global standards
• Being an information conduit for data, collaborating with cross functional teams (product managers, engineers, data scientists) to solve business problems
• Being persistent and passionate data miners – experienced in interrogating, interpreting, and effectively communicating findings by mapping and documenting how new data fits into the ecosystem
• Understanding the impact of changes to downstream consumption
• Finding the root cause to anomalies and collaborating on the corrective course of action
• Providing “as-is” data insights
• Managing data quality and measuring data fitness including investigating anomalies and defining metrics for ongoing data validation to build and maintain the trust of your consumers
• Understanding different types of data interactions – the ways and reasons to interact from data discovery through productionizing
• Being familiar with interpreting Data Governance, Privacy and Contracts to document guidelines around data confidentiality, security / access and use conditions
• Providing input and feedback into a product roadmap and overall integration of data with products considering the data lifecycle
• Managing data with a product mindset – focus on outcomes (over outputs), problems to solve, the goals of your data and key metrics of success; as part of the team, responsible to collaboratively work together to think of a strategy that is believed to result in the best product solution for our customers
• Collaborating with vendor technical teams – coordinating issues, new data needs or requesting enhancements

REQUIREMENTS

• Experience in data virtualization techniques such as data libraries and APIs

• Strong technical skills using SQL, PySpark, BigQuery or similar
• Familiarity with Hadoop, Cloud (Azure), Oracle, Snowflake, or other similar technologies
• Technical understanding of data, flow diagrams, some ability to read code and scripts
• Ability to interpret data and communicate results to both technical and business stakeholders
• Ability to create high level data flow diagrams for a solution and facilitate collaborative cross functional review sessions to validate feasibility of the design to achieve the anticipated value
• Ability to guide the customers of your data in identifying business requirements, analysis, specification, and the ability to apply them in practice for implementing solutions
• Problem solving, critical thinking and analytical skills
• Planning, organizational and time management skills
• Comfort with ambiguity – remains confident, positive, and resourceful in the face of ambiguity and unexpected results; recovers quickly from setbacks
• Exhibits qualities of and have proven to be a great teammate
• Verbal and written communication skills, ability to translate between business and technical
• Familiar with or having a Product Mindset and applying Platform Thinking
• Technical acumen – grasps the technical details to collaborate with product managers, engineers, architecture, and data scientists
• Business acumen – grasps how the work ladders into the overall company objectives; ability to collaborate with product managers and business stakeholders, removing the technical complexities so as to be easily understood
• 5-7 years relevant experience
• Education: Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience

BENEFITS OF WORKING AS AN EMPLOYEE AT CRG

All W2 Employees at CRG are offered the following benefits options!

• Medical, Vision, Dental, Life Insurance, and Long- & Short-Term Disability insurance is offered after 90 days of employment with CRG!
• We also offer a Flexible Spending Account (FSA) along with a Health Savings Account (HSA) with our medical plan. CRG matches the first 500 dollars of the HSA contributions.
• Our 30K Life Insurance Policy is FREE (no cost to the employee) if you sign up for it!
• We also have a 401K plan, with open enrollment quarterly (January, April, July, and October) after working at CRG for 90 days.
• CRG matches 100% of the first 3% of employee contributions to the 401K plan!