Senior Business Data Analyst

Discover. A brighter future.

With us, you’ll do meaningful work from Day 1. Our collaborative culture is built on three core behaviors: We Play to Win, We Get Better Every Day & We Succeed Together. And we mean it — we want you to grow and make a difference at one of the world's leading digital banking and payments companies. We value what makes you unique so that you have an opportunity to shine.

Come build your future, while being the reason millions of people find a brighter financial future with Discover.

Job Description

Responsible for using experience and a hands-on approach to engage with Data Scientists and Data Engineers, resulting in the generation and consumption of data for various business initiatives on next-generation data platforms. Actively manages and escalates risk and customer-impacting issues within the day-to-day role to management.

Responsibilities

• Be the bridge between Data Scientist and Data Engineering to enable data application development. Understands at a fundamental level, our data ingestion and processing frameworks. Gathers data application requirements from Data Scientists and other operational teams to ensure that the business needs will be met. Designs transformation logic in source to targets to be implemented by partner Data Engineers. Partners with the Data Scientists and Data Engineers throughout the development and testing processes by ensuring that the team understands the parameters and needs of the project. Schedules and runs data application/model deployments and validations between Data Engineering and Data Scientists.
• Utilizes deep knowledge of in-house data to assist Data Scientists in developing models, analytic processes, and reports to drive business value. Provides guidance to Data Scientists in creating efficient and fast-performing data consumption processes to meet service objectives. Highly efficient in understanding logic implemented in languages such as Python, R, and other analytics tools used by Data Scientists.
• Provides support for deployed data applications and analytical models by being a trusted advisor to Data Scientists and other data consumers by identifying data problems and guiding issue-resolution with partner Data Engineers.
• Ensures that proper data governance policies are followed by implementing or validating Data Lineage, Quality checks, classification, etc.

Minimum Qualifications

At a minimum, here’s what we need from you:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, or related field
• 2+ years of experience in data analysis, business analysis, data application programming, ETL development, or related field
• In lieu of a degree, 4+ years of experience in data analysis, business analysis, data application programming, ETL development, or related field

Preferred Qualifications

If we had our say, we’d also look for:

• 1+ years of experience with Cloud

Compensation

The base pay for this position generally ranges between $63,500.00 to $107,100.00. Additional incentives may be provided as part of a market competitive total compensation package. Factors, such as but not limited to, geographical location, relevant experience, education, and skill level may impact the pay for this position.

Benefits

We also offer a range of benefits and programs based on eligibility. These benefits include:

• Paid Parental Leave
• Paid Time Off
• 401(k) Plan
• Medical, Dental, Vision, & Health Savings Account
• STD, Life, LTD and AD&D
• Recognition Program
• Education Assistance
• Commuter Benefits
• Family Support Programs
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Learn more at MyDiscoverBenefits.com.

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