Data Analyst

Job Summary:The Data Analyst will facilitate and lead assigned projects by performing analytics and acting as a liaison between users and CTO on the data infrastructure and reporting needs, proposing and implementing scalable data reporting infrastructure and evaluating, producing, and refining dashboards and reports.

Duties / Responsibilities:

• Collaborates with business staff to thoroughly understand the needs to be supported by the information systems and technology.
• Determines how changes to the project will affect the business and systems.
• Provides recommendations regarding the evolution of the data system.
• Responds to inquiries and provides advice to the client regarding current and potential system inputs, processes, and outputs.
• Identifies plans and timeframes, ensuring that data transformation meets anticipated result.
• Satisfies data sampling, project analysis, testing verification, and other user requests from existing client databases.
• Managing master data, including creation, updates, and deletion.
• Provide quality assurance of imported data, working with quality assurance analysts if necessary.
• Commissioning sand decommissioning of data sets.
• Processing confidential data and information according to guidelines.
• Managing and designing the reporting environment, including data sources, security, and metadata.
• Supporting the data warehouse in identifying and revising reporting requirements.
• Supporting initiatives for data integrity and normalization.
• Assessing tests and implementing new or upgraded software and assisting with strategic decisions on new systems.
• Generating reports from single or multiple systems.
• Troubleshooting the reporting database environment and reports.
• Evaluating changes and updates to source production systems.
• Training end-users on new reports and dashboards.
• Providing technical expertise in data storage structures, data mining, and data cleansing.
  

Requirements

Required Skills / Abilities:

• Proficient in SQL, Python, R, and similar data related programming languages
• Experiences working with NoSQL databases and big data infrastructure
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite or related software program.
• Excellent management skills with the ability to lead, facilitate, motivate, and organize.
• Ability to adapt to change.
• Ability to learn quickly and to creatively solve new problems.
• Ability to handle differing stakeholders
• Ability to act as a team player. Education and Experience:
• Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Data Analytics, or related field required. Schedule:Monday - Friday 9:00AM - 5:30PM Location:Skokie IL