Senior Data Quality Analyst

Overview

Allied Consultants, Inc. is an Austin-based firm which has for 33 years been a premier provider of technical and business professionals to clients in Texas. We are currently seeking an experienced Senior Data Quality Analyst to be a key resource on a technical services team.

Allied Consultants offers its family of consultants excellent rates, a local support staff, and an attractive benefits package which includes medical insurance (Allied shares a percentage of the cost), life insurance, a matching 401(k) plan and a cafeteria plan.Candidates selected for interview will be required to undergo criminal background checks and may be required to complete a drug screen in accordance with Federal and State Law.  Offers of Employment are contingent on a successful background checkAllied Consultants is an equal opportunities employer.

Responsibilities

 Duties and Responsibilities

Essential Functions:

• Expand and continuously refine the data quality program.
• Ensures adherence to the data quality programs and standards.
• Ensures that the data quality corrective action plan is thoroughly documented.
• Promote the importance and awareness of an enterprise data quality program.
• Leverages data management knowledge to define and maintain data quality, reference data, and meta-data processes.
• Participates in the development of data quality rules, thresholds, and standard/quality expectations for data elements that support critical business processes.
• Continuously execute and monitor the Data Quality Lifecycle on a daily basis.
• Profiles data for statistical analysis and assessment of data to document the effectiveness of data quality controls and identifies improvement opportunities.
• Identifies and implements best practices and tools based on the business needs.
• Implement controls to mitigate data quality risks including continuously monitoring data quality results, reports and dashboards.
• Impeccable oral and written communication skills are essential for effectively interacting with data users, managers, and other stakeholders.
• Complies with all applicable agency policies and procedures, including safety and standards of conduct.
• Performs other duties as assigned

Essential Work Behaviors:

• Communicates respectfully and works harmoniously with all co-workers, customers, and vendors.
• Provides exceptional customer service.
• Is flexible; able to work under pressure and able to adapt to change; and able to work on multiple problems and tasks.
• Takes initiative to prevent and solve problems.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Uses all knowledge, skills, and abilities to apply critical thinking to all aspects of the job. Critical thinking is a process of forming reasoned opinions through observation, information collection, interpretation, analysis, inference, evaluation, and other skills necessary to successfully meet performance standards of the job.
• Strong analytical and product management skills, including a thorough understanding of how to interpret customer business needs and translate them into application and operational requirements.
• Demonstrated problem solving skills in a technical environment
• Strong written and verbal communication skills; Editing and proofing skills for complex and technical documents. Ability to understand and clearly communicate technical information to non-IT personnel
• Strong organizational skills and the ability to prioritize assignments.
• General knowledge of legislature and legislative process.
• Familiarity with HIPAA and other data security and confidentiality requirements.
• Ability to work independently on difficult, complex tasks.
• Ability to use discretion on matters of a confidential or sensitive nature.
• Knowledge of health care claims data.

Professional Expectations:

• Attends all meetings, meets delivery deadlines and is available during client's office hours.
• Logs in and remains on agency Jabber during work hours.
• Attends remote meetings with camera on unless prior arranged for camera off.
• Coordinates leave and vacation with client's lead.
• Must dress appropriately for a business/business casual environment.
• Communicates respectfully and works harmoniously with all co-workers, customers and vendors.
• Provides exceptional customer service.
• Is flexible; able to work under pressure and able to adapt to change; and able to work on multiple problems and tasks.
• Takes initiative to prevent and solve problems.

**Location of job: Onsite**

Qualifications

Minimum (Required):

Years

Skills/Experience

Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, statistics, economics, finance, library science, or related business field

3

Experience creating functional and technical documentation, business glossaries, and diagrams, that communicates the desired message to business and technical audiences.

3

Experience working with enterprise grade databases - preferably SQL Server and Oracle.

3

Experience developing and writing complex SQL scripts/queries-preferably Oracle and SQL Server

2

Experience, within the last 5 years, developing data quality rules, thresholds, and standard metrics/quality-expectations for data elements that support critical business processes.

2

Experience, within the last 5 years, with an enterprise grade data quality tool such as Alteryx Data Quality, SAS Data Quality, etc.

2

Experience, within in the last 5 years, in the Data Quality field developing and implementing best practices and tools based on the business needs.

Leads and participates in discussions with cross-functional teams.

Preferred (Optional):

Years

Skills/Experience

3

Experience working with complex Excel functions, including but not limited to VLookUp, Macros, Pivot Tables, etc.

2

Experience with the Microsoft SQL Server BI Stack (RDMS, SSIS, SSRS)

Experience or familiarity with Alteryx & Tableau.

Experience or familiarity with Benefits Administration, Pension Administration, and Payroll oriented data in the PeopleSoft HRMS package or similar package.