Data Analyst

Your Title: Data Analyst

Job Location: Christchurch, NZ

Our Department: Caterpillar Trimble Control Technologies (CTCT)

Are you ready to make a significant impact by transforming data into actionable insights that drive business success for a leading global tech company? 

What You Will Do

As a Data Analyst in CTCT, you will engage with our Engineering teams to identify and extract insights that maximise value for our customers, collaborate with Product to prioritize application instrumentation needs, and partner with Data Engineering to implement the data roadmap effectively. 

This role demands tactical skills while following data management best practices, the ability to acquire functional knowledge while working with domain experts and identifying data strategies across products, strategic skills to promote an analytical mindset within the Engineering organisation, and excellent storytelling abilities to communicate data insights across CTCT.

This will see you involved in the following:

• Promote data infrastructure capabilities within local (NZ) and remote (US, India) development teams

• Design and implement data visualisations using Power BI

• Present insights and findings in various reviews and presentations

• Assist the development team in leveraging data insights to inform their design and architecture decisions

• Conduct ad-hoc analysis with other groups such as Portfolio, Finance, Quality, and Support

• Develop a roadmap of metrics capabilities aligned with organisational objectives

• Stay aligned with our data infrastructure model and data strategy

• Collaborate with engineering teams, including CX/UX, to ensure clean and quality data collection. Coordinate data cleansing with Data Engineering

• Contribute to and follow data governance best practices

• Maintain documentation as the source of truth

• Identify subject matter experts and data owners, classify data, and validate data reliability, especially with individual product teams in engineering.

What skills & experience you should bring

Along with your excellent communication skills for coordinating and presenting analytics findings,  you will also have:

• Proven professional-level experience in data analysis and visualization, preferably with MS Azure and Power BI. Microsoft certification is a plus

• Demonstrable critical thinking, attention to detail, and strong written skills to establish documentation best practices

• Solid understanding of data governance and infrastructure development

• The ability to collaborate with cross-functional teams, to manage roadmaps and dependencies

• Technical acumen to understand the Grade Control functional domain; experience in the Construction, Automotive, or Connected Devices industry is a plus.

About Your Location

Based at Trimble’s NZ headquarters in Christchurch, New Zealand (handily located on the Little River Link Cycleway), enjoy free parking, securely covered bike sheds, an onsite gym, showers, an active social club, and a great team environment where people love working with leading technology solutions.

At Trimble, you'll find the inspiration and opportunity to be yourself and thrive. The global community of Team Trimble, including more than 400 people in New Zealand, is passionate about bringing new ideas and innovations to life and building a better, more sustainable future.

Please note: Only applicants legally entitled to work in New Zealand will be considered. 

About CTCT

Our division develops machine control products that use site design information combined with positioning technology to semi-automatically control machines. These products are used in a range of applications to enable machine operators to perform their work safely, accurately, efficiently, sustainably, and effectively through the use of sophisticated yet intuitive user-centric technology.

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