Senior Data Analyst Job Description
Senior data analyst
provides automation help to analytical teams around data centric needs using SAS, SQL and possibly other big data/cloud solutions for efficiency improvement.
Senior Data Analyst Duties & Responsibilities
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Sample responsibilities for this position include:
Support and delivery for accurate, actionable information that provides business insight and supports daily business activities
Troubleshoot technology and business problems
Support and act as a leader with end to end process of data sourcing, importing, cleaning, transforming, validating and modeling into a meaningful purpose such as illustrative charts, graphs, tables, dashboards
Front line contact for data delivery support issues related to team activities, including after hours support
Advise clients on opportunities to further leverage our reference data and vendor capabilities, assisting clients in both the strategic and tactical planning phases
Effectively manage day-to-day operational issues with software and offshore resource vendors, with specific focus on data
Work closely with vendors to ensure changes/updates/revisions are made according to Russell directions and specifications
Manage vendor performance versus agreed delivery standards, project timelines, and product enhancements and assist in developing the service standards, service level agreements, and KPIs
Generate actionable reports and recommendations on features that will improve retention, monetization and acquisition
Be the data subject matter expert for the line of business to deliver information and insights
Senior Data Analyst Qualifications
Qualifications for a job description may include education, certification, and experience.
Licensing or Certifications for Senior Data Analyst
List any licenses or certifications required by the position: CPA, ESRI, CISA, CIA, SAS, PMP, SQL, GISP, GIS, CFE
Education for Senior Data Analyst
Typically a job would require a certain level of education.
Employers hiring for the senior data analyst job most commonly would prefer for their future employee to have a relevant degree such as Master's and Bachelor's Degree in Statistics, Computer Science, Economics, Mathematics, Finance, Business, Engineering, Epidemiology, Education, Healthcare
Skills for Senior Data Analyst
Desired skills for senior data analyst include:
SQL
Hadoop and other big data technologies
Tableau
SAS
One other scripting/compiled/statistical programming language
Python
R
Excel
Word
Relational databases
Desired experience for senior data analyst includes:
Bachelors or Master’s degree in quantitative discipline required
At least 3 years of data analytics experience in a professional environment
Proficient experience in quantitative analysis and knowledge of statistical methods
A BS/BA in Economics, Mathematics, Statistics, Finance, or Business related field
Experience in pricing, forecasting, demand planning
5+ years in a consulting/data analytics focused role, involving large datasets
Senior Data Analyst Examples
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Senior Data Analyst Job Description
Job Description Example
Our company is growing rapidly and is hiring for a senior data analyst. If you are looking for an exciting place to work, please take a look at the list of qualifications below.
Responsibilities for senior data analyst
- Proactively propose business requirement and possible solutions to address technical issues
- Develop automation scripts and tools to support Risk data certification
- Provide technical leadership and mentor junior members of the team
- Design and complete data profiling activities
- Maintain and understand existing data models and create new models as required
- Work with archive experts for the creation of all future archive data models
- Develop and implement predictive & descriptive models
- Track academic and business-driven trends in Data Science
- Develop prototypes and participate in Proof of Concept or Proof of Technology projects
- Support development teams in research and implementing of big data technologies
Qualifications for senior data analyst
- Experience with Web Analytics Applications like Adobe Analytics (Omniture), Google Analytics, Coremetrics would be an asset
- Previous experience in the financial industry related to credit cards or insurance products would be an asset
- BS/BA in Computer Science, Applied Mathematics or equivalent
- 5 year working experience, with at least 3 years’ experience as a data analyst or data engineer, with a strong preference for experience in the digital game industry
- Familiarity with current Gen consoles, next Gen consoles, iOS, Android and Facebook games marketplaces
- Ability to deep dive in large sample of data and extract insight
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Job Description Example
Our company is looking to fill the role of senior data analyst. To join our growing team, please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications.
Responsibilities for senior data analyst
- Identify the appropriate sources of information and the business rules required to transform source data to meet business intelligence needs
- Junior Data Analyst
- Work with technology and business partners to document data field usage and needs, and enter into the enterprise data management toolset
- Work with enterprise data management on a host of activities, including data quality reporting, data dictionary terms, and various efforts to make sure we are in lockstep with the larger organization
- Liaise with legal, risk, audit to satisfy various requests that come in for regulatory and other purposes
- Provide production support on a limited basis, as needed, for front office and back office systems supported by the team
- Create a methodology and implement that methodology for development efforts moving forward, so that the team can be proactive and monitor new data fields and requests prior to a production installation
- Capable of coding independently, incorporating best practices, with little or no guidance
- Perform Ad Hoc analyses for important questions for business teams
- Data mining and statistical analysis to identify potential revenue opportunities
Qualifications for senior data analyst
- A team based style that draws on the experience of the extended team
- A “can-do” work ethic
- A proactive attitude where you lead, influence and own analytical projects
- Flexibility and creativity in delivering on stated objectives
- Bachelors degree in a quantitative profession (Computer Science, Engineering, Economics, Statistics, Math, Actuarial Science)
- 1 years professional experience conducting data analysis
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Our innovative and growing company is hiring for a senior data analyst. Please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications. While this is our ideal list, we will consider candidates that do not necessarily have all of the qualifications, but have sufficient experience and talent.
Responsibilities for senior data analyst
- Learn and study HRSC industry benchmarks
- Manage projects to implement process and technology improvements for the HRSC
- Deliver continuous process improvement training to HRSC staff on processes/programs supported by the HRSC
- Administration and configuration of SPACE
- Space Data Management
- Development of enhanced reporting functionality
- Documentation of all SPACE related processes and policies
- Coordinate and verify transfer and upload of CADD files as necessary
- Update account-specific Data Management guidelines and account information
- Lead major account projects related to SPACE
Qualifications for senior data analyst
- Data manipulation and extraction experience using Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio 2008
- Must be well organized, extremely detail oriented and have great communication skills, both oral and written
- 5+ years of experience working with SQL Server Databases, and SQL
- Microsoft Office/Suite proficient (Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio)
- Advanced experience with SQL and SAS is a must
- Experience working in a Mainframe/Unix environment to access data
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Senior Data Analyst Job Description
Job Description Example
Our company is growing rapidly and is looking for a senior data analyst. Please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications. While this is our ideal list, we will consider candidates that do not necessarily have all of the qualifications, but have sufficient experience and talent.
Responsibilities for senior data analyst
- Develop effective relationships with stakeholders across Nationwide to input into member, product, service and distribution strategies to ensure a consistent delivery of the Society proposition
- Develop and produce robust customer insight / Key Performance Indicators, including insightful commentary and identification of key trends
- Scan the external market place to gain deep and meaningful understanding of analytics techniques to enable the identification of new levels of member insight now and in the future
- Provide appropriate development support to junior team members, including coaching in analytical investigation and reporting, insight identification, segmentation, research techniques and solution design
- Pricing Operations
- Risk and Valuation
- Investment Oversight
- Multi-Asset Class Solutions
- Data Strategy and Architecture
- Responsible for data analysis, validation, cleansing, collection and reporting
Qualifications for senior data analyst
- Experience with advanced web analytics methodologies on large sites and A / B testing
- Exposure to project management and user experience best practices
- Working knowledge of an analysis tool such as SAS
- Experience working with large data sets and working with distributed computing tools considered an asset (Map/Reduce, Hadoop, Hive)
- Knowledge or ability to learn data visualization and reporting tools to display & communicate quantitative information and analytical output to non-technical stakeholders
- At least 1 year of experience in at least one scripting language
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Senior Data Analyst Job Description
Job Description Example
Our company is looking to fill the role of senior data analyst. We appreciate you taking the time to review the list of qualifications and to apply for the position. If you don’t fill all of the qualifications, you may still be considered depending on your level of experience.
Responsibilities for senior data analyst
- Interact with operational teams to ensure effective integration of analytics and predictive models into production systems
- Conduct ad hoc analyses and research as requested by management
- Document and publish findings in a clear and concise fashion to business interests and assist in their interpretation
- Communicate results completely and clearly to external and internal clients
- Serve as a thought-leader and consultant for the business
- Lead all aspects of requirements analysis, traceability and testing for enhancements and projects that are small, medium or large in size and/or complexity while supporting those functions for large cross-functional or Enterprise-wide initiatives
- Perform day-to-day operational support and mentor other analysts
- Own the BI Mobile roadmap
- Create a reporting infrastructure that serves every level of the mobile product and business organization
- Own mobile analytics through data intelligence briefs to the product managers
Qualifications for senior data analyst
- Manipulate and profile data to form quality, unified data sets for analysis and consumption
- Apply understanding and analysis of complex data problems, devise methodical action plan, and implement robust solutions
- Understand, wrangle, transform, and visualize large data sets from many sources, using a variety of tools
- Demonstrated customer focus, with the ability to evaluate decisions through the eyes of the customer, build strong customer relationships, and create processes from a customer viewpoint
- Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent experience is required (Business, Data Management, IT, or Compliance)
- Minimum of 3 years of Data, Finance, Operations or Business experience is required