Salesforce Data Analyst

 Requisition #: 16012 

Our Mission: Powering Innovation That Drives Human Advancement  

When visionary companies need to know how their world-changing ideas will perform, they close the gap between design and reality with Ansys simulation. For more than 50 years, Ansys software has enabled innovators across industries to push boundaries by using the predictive power of simulation. From sustainable transportation to advanced semiconductors, from satellite systems to life-saving medical devices, the next great leaps in human advancement will be powered by Ansys. 

Innovate With Ansys, Power Your Career.  

Summary / Role Purpose

As a Data Operations Analyst within the GTM Transformation & Strategy organization, you will partner with the Business Process Architect and Business Process Analyst to guide our stakeholders through the data quality-requirements definition and grooming of critical initiatives throughout our implementation portfolio.  Experienced in engaging with cross-functional business stakeholders, you understand how to identify the data-related requirements necessary to achieve a business stakeholders goal and identify opportunities for data quality improvement.

Key Duties and Responsibilities

• Collaborate with business stakeholders and lead discovery sessions to understand data requirements for activities including but not limited to: data mapping/transformation and data migration between systems, data loads and data quality; make recommendations to solve business problems   

• Critically evaluates information gathered from multiple sources, reconciles inconsistency, and breaks down high-level information into details

• Works within agile SAFe operating model; ensures data-related activities are completed prior to release including but not limited to: data dictionary updates, business glossary updates, profile/permission master updates

• Manages and monitors data quality dashboards; communicates key findings to business stakeholders

• Perform Data Migration/Validation testing efforts; lead data-related UAT preparation activities and guide business users through data validation testing

Minimum Education/Certification Requirements and Experience

• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent work experience

• 3+ years of data analyst experience focused on data mapping/STTM, data migration, data uploads

• 2+ years of business systems administration related to customer data management

• Prior experience with Salesforce security model, record management and data quality tools (i.e. data loader, deduplication, enrichment, standardization and archival capabilities)

• Prior experience maintaining data dictionary, data catalog and business glossary

• Strong analytical skills with the ability to work through processes, identify and implement data quality improvements and resolve complex matters

• Strong time management, attention to detail, and ability to multi-task across concurrent projects

• Self-starter mentality and ability to operate within a fast-paced and ambiguous environment

Preferred Qualifications and Skills

• Salesforce Administrator (201) certification

• Experience working in an Agile/SAFe environment

• Experience with application lifecycle management tools (ADO, Jira, etc.)

• Ability to take on various roles including Business Process Analyst as needed, capturing and defining both business process and data-related requirements and translating into Agile Features with Acceptance Criteria

• Comfortable working with unstructured or poorly defined data sets

• Strong communication and writing skills with the ability to create business deliverables -- including features, user stories and acceptance criteria, with minimal direction and support from a team lead or project manager

• Proficiency with MS Office suite of products, including Outlook, Word, Excel and Power Point

At Ansys, we know that changing the world takes vision, skill, and each other. We fuel new ideas, build relationships, and help each other realize our greatest potential. We are ONE Ansys. We operate on three key components: the commitments to our stakeholders, the behaviors of how we work together, and the actions of how we deliver results. Together as ONE Ansys, we are powering innovation that drives human advancement. 

Our Commitments: 

• Amaze with innovative products and solutions
• Make our customers incredibly successful
• Act with integrity
• Ensure employees thrive and shareholders prosper

Our Values: 

• Adaptability: Be open, welcome what's next
• Courage: Be courageous, move forward passionately
• Generosity: Be generous, share, listen, serve
• Authenticity: Be you, make us stronger

Our Actions: 

• We commit to audacious goals
• We work seamlessly as a team
• We demonstrate mastery
• We deliver outstanding results

INCLUSION IS AT OUR CORE 
We believe diverse thinking leads to better outcomes. We are committed to creating and nurturing a workplace that fuels this by welcoming people, no matter their background, identity, or experience, to a workplace where they are valued and where diversity, inclusion, equity, and belonging thrive. 

 
WELCOME WHAT’S NEXT IN YOUR CAREER AT ANSYS 

At Ansys, you will find yourself among the sharpest minds and most visionary leaders across the globe. Collectively we strive to change the world with innovative technology and transformational solutions. With a prestigious reputation in working with well-known, world-class companies, standards at Ansys are high — met by those willing to rise to the occasion and meet those challenges head on. Our team is passionate about pushing the limits of world-class simulation technology, empowering our customers to turn their design concepts into successful, innovative products faster and at a lower cost. 

At Ansys, it’s about the learning, the discovery, and the collaboration. It’s about the “what’s next” as much as the “mission accomplished.” And it’s about the melding of disciplined intellect with strategic direction and results that have, can, and do impact real people in real ways. All this is forged within a working environment built on respect, autonomy, and ethics. 
  

CREATING A PLACE WE’RE PROUD TO BE  
Ansys is an S&P 500 company and a member of the NASDAQ-100. We are proud to have been recognized for the following more recent awards, although our list goes on: Newsweek’s Most Loved Workplace globally and in the U.S., Gold Stevie Award Winner, America’s Most Responsible Companies, Fast Company World Changing Ideas, Great Place to Work Certified (Belgium, China, Greece, France, India, Japan, Korea, Spain, Sweden, Taiwan, and U.K.). 

  
For more information, please visit us at www.ansys.com 
  

Ansys is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, and other protected characteristics. 
  
Ansys does not accept unsolicited referrals for vacancies, and any unsolicited referral will become the property of Ansys. Upon hire, no fee will be owed to the agency, person, or entity.