Staff Data Analyst

Job Title:

Staff Data Analyst

Location:

TX - Dallas/Irving

What you'll do:

The Staff Data Analyst is a catalyst for driving Enterprise Data & Analytics solutions, specifically the data solutions required for Regulatory Reporting including Large Financial Institution requirements. This person is accountable to ensure the alignment of data requirements between business and technology teams by working alongside business teams to understand business process and data flows. The Staff Data Analyst documents results of data profiling to facilitate decision making with executive and senior business data owners. Additionally, this person is required to provide expertise in analytics and visualization as it relates to Western Alliance Bank’s enterprise data warehouse and Regulatory Reporting Analytics Data Store.
In this position, the Staff Data Analyst is hands-on in developing and publishing analysis artifacts as well as is a mentor to other analysts in the Team. The Staff Data Analyst will contribute to or provide leadership oversight to data solutions in the following three areas:
• Implementing data quality management, including the development of the data quality rules for critical data elements based on the selected data quality dimensions and designing the data quality results database, dashboard, integration with our business glossary, and the automation of the process.
• Implementing enterprise data warehouse and analytics data store solutions, including the analysis for source systems, source to target mapping, and built-in data quality.
• Assist with Data Governance, including the data profiling for source systems, critical data element identification, and business glossary management.
• Assist with ad hoc business inquiries by extracting the data from primary and secondary sources using SQL queries and/or PowerBI dashboards.
This exciting opportunity requires the best of your data analysis, problem solving and collaboration skills. The Staff Data Analyst will contribute to the development of cross-business unit data solutions that are leveraged to implement and enhance our regulatory reporting capabilities.
The ideal candidate has strong business and technical analysis experience, a growth mindset, is outcome-focused, and fosters teamwork.
This position is ONSITE ONLY located in either Phoenix, AZ, Dallas, TX, or Columbus, OH.

What we are looking for:

• Partner with the Data Product Manager, Data Architects, and Data Engineering Manager to ensure data analysis is addressed in the data product development lifecycle for Regulatory Reporting Solutions.
• Develop, implement, and support the processes and best practices for data exploration, data profiling, data quality and data mapping required for the implementation of the Western Alliance Bank Regulatory Reporting Solutions.
• Define source to target mapping for the data transformations required in the end-to-end Regulatory Reporting data solutions.
• Collaborate with business data owners to execute data profiling and source data analysis for source systems needed for Regulatory Reporting.
• Participate in data governance activities by partnering with the Enterprise Data Stewards and Business Data Governance.
• Develop and manage the data lineage, business rules (data quality, cleansing, transformation rules, etc.), reference data, and mapping documents across the enterprise in the Metadata Management Tool.
• Apply data analysis skills to the data quality/data governance process and/or to the data flows required to engineer the enterprise data warehouse and/or analytics data stores.
• Prepare analysis findings and communicate to both business and technical stakeholders.
• Create data visualizations using Power BI to explain data analysis recommendations.

What you need to have:

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, MIS, or Data & Analytics or equivalent experience.
• 6+ years’ experience with data analysis specifically as it relates to enterprise data management including data warehousing and source to target mapping.
• Strong experience with RDBMS and query language such as T-SQL, PL/SQL, Spark SQL.
• Strong experience using analytics tools such as SPSS, SAS, Tableau, PowerBI.
• Strong experience using data profiling/wrangling tools (Example: Informatica IDMC (preferred), Alteryx, Paxata, Trifacta, Tamlr, etc.).
• Strong experience using common file formats such as CSV, TEXT, JSON, XML, XSD, etc.
• Excellent problem solving and analytic skills.
• Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written, and ability to work collaboratively within a team, business stakeholders and executives.
• Banking or financial services industry with Regulatory Reporting experience or other highly regulated industry is preferred.
• Experience in Agile, SAFe, and/or Scrum is preferred.
• Experience working in a data governance function is preferred.
• Experience integrating with data quality, data catalog and data lineage tools is preferred.
• Certifications within Azure such as Azure Fundamentals, Azure Data Engineer, Azure Data Scientist, and/or Azure DevOps Engineer is preferred.
• Experience integrating and using data science or statistical solutions is preferred.

Benefits you’ll love:
We offer all the important things you'd want — like competitive salaries, an ownership stake in the company, medical and dental insurance, time off, a great 401k matching program, tuition assistance program, an employee volunteer program, and a wellness program. In addition, you’ll have the opportunity to bolster your business knowledge, learning the ins and outs of how successful companies operate and manage their finances, giving you invaluable hands-on experience to help grow your career!

About the company:

Western Alliance Bank is a wholly owned subsidiary of Western Alliance Bancorporation. Alliance Bank of Arizona, Alliance Association Bank, Bank of Nevada, Bridge Bank, First Independent Bank, and Torrey Pines Bank are divisions of Western Alliance Bank; Member FDIC.  AmeriHome Mortgage is a Western Alliance Bank company.

Western Alliance Bancorporation is committed to equal employment and will consider all qualified applicants without regard to race, sex, color, religion, age, nation origin, marital status, disability, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or genetic information. Western Alliance Bancorporation is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations for individuals with disabilities. If you are an individual with a disability and require a reasonable accommodation to complete any part of the application process and/or need an alternative method of applying, please email HR@westernalliancebank.com or call 602-386-2488.  When contacting us, please provide your contact information and state the nature of your accessibility issue.  We will only respond to inquiries concerning requests that involve a reasonable accommodation in the application process.

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