Senior Data Analyst

What you'll do...

Position: Senior Data Analyst

Job Location: 702 SW 8th Street, Bentonville, AR 72716

Duties: Data Source Identification: support the understanding of the priority order of requirements and service level agreements. Help identify the most suitable source for data that is fit for purpose. Perform initial data quality checks on extracted data. Data Strategy: understand, articulate, and apply principles of the defined strategy to routine business problems that involve a single function. Understanding Business Context: Provide recommendations to business stakeholders to solve complex business issues. Develop business cases for projects with a projected return on investment or cost savings. Translate business requirements into projects, activities, and tasks and aligns to overall business strategy and develops domain specific artifact. Serve as an interpreter and conduit to connect business needs with tangible solutions and results. Identify and recommend relevant business insights pertaining to their area of work. Tech. Problem Formulation translate/ co-own business problems within one's discipline to data related or mathematical solutions. Identify appropriate methods/tools to be leveraged to provide a solution for the problem. Share use cases and gives examples to demonstrate how the method would solve the business problem. Data Visualization: generate appropriate graphical representations of data and model outcomes. Understand customer requirements to design appropriate data representation for multiple data sets. Work with User Experience designers and User Interface engineers as required to build front end applications. Present to and influences the team and business audience using the appropriate data visualization frameworks and conveys clear messages through business and stakeholder understanding. Customize communication style based on stakeholder under guidance and leverages rational arguments. Guide and mentor junior associates on story types, structures, and techniques based on context. Data Quality Management: promote and educate others on data quality awareness. Profile, analyze, and assess data quality. Test and validate data quality requirements. Continuously measure and monitor data quality. Deliver against data quality service level agreements. Manage operational Data Quality Management procedures. Manage data quality issues and leads data cleansing activities to remove data quality defects, improve data quality, and eliminate unused data. Determine user accessibility and removes or restricts user access as needed. Interpret company and regulatory policies on data. Educate others on data governance processes, practices, policies, and guidelines. Exploratory Data Analysis: collect and tabulate data and evaluate results to determine accuracy, validity, and applicability. Support the identification and application of statistical techniques based on requirements. Apply suitable technique under direction from leadership. Assist in the planning, design and implementation of an exploratory data analysis research projects. Understand existing statistical models and identify and recommend statistical models based on hypothesis. Use advanced Knowledge in Data Discovery tools to write queries and analyze data to identify patterns, trends, outliers, and correlations. Conduct statistical analysis (for example hypothesis tests, confidence intervals) and build basic statistical models using relevant packages/software suites.

Minimum education and experience required: Master's degree or the equivalent in Business, Engineering, Statistics, or a related field OR Bachelor's degree or the equivalent in Business, Engineering, Statistics, or a related field plus 2 years of experience in data analysis, data science, statistics, or related experience.

Skills required: Must have experience with: Designing SQL queries and custom database tables to automate for reporting dashboards (Postgres SQL, Amazon Redshift and Microsoft SQL Server); Visualizing dashboards to showcase key metrics and insights using Tableau, Power BI and Excel charts; Creating automated dynamic models in Excel using pivot-tables, VBA and interactive slicers to setup models for financial and sales analytics; Coding in Python to automate data cleaning processes as well as run predictive models like regression; Ad-hoc exploratory and statistical analysis using techniques of A/B testing and t-tests in Excel and R; Designing ETL workflows between databases to automate data extraction, cleaning/transformation and loading process using Alteryx and Tibco MDM tools; Setting data flows in CRM tool Salesforce and ERP tool SAP BOBJ to create automated reports; Designing reports for website analytics to track user behavior and traffic using Google analytics; Developing data-driven presentations to highlight actionable recommendations using Microsoft PowerPoint and Tableau Stories; and Planning project framework and management using Microsoft Planner and Jira administration tools. Employer will accept any amount of experience with the required skills.

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Wal-Mart is an Equal Opportunity Employer.