Principal Data Analyst

Principal Data Analyst

Requirements

• 8+ years experience in analyzing data in response to new business requests
• Experience performing maintenance and changes on interfaces
• Experience identifying and resolving data discrepancies across multiple business applications

Responsibilities

• Works directly with the client user community and business analysts to define and document data requirements for data integration and business intelligence applications
• Determines and documents data mapping rules for movement of medium to high complexity data between applications
• Adheres to and promotes the use of data administration standards
• Supports data selection, extraction, and cleansing for corporate applications, including data warehouse and data marts
• Creates and sustains processes, tools, and on-going support structures and processes
• Extracts and analyzes data from specific applications, systems and/or databases to create reports and provide recommendations based on the analysis of the data
• Investigates and resolves data issues across platforms and applications, including discrepancies of definition, format and function
• Creates and populates meta-data into repositories
• May create data models, including robust data definitions, which may be entity-relationship-attribute models, star, or dimensional models
• May also create data flow diagrams and process models and integrates models across functional areas and platforms
• Works closely with DBAs to transition logical models to physical implementation
• May be responsible for employing data mining techniques to achieve data synchronization, redundancy elimination, source identification, data reconciliation, and problem root cause analysis
• May also be responsible for quality control and auditing of databases, resolving data problems, and analyzing system changes for quality assurance

Preferred Qualifications

No preferred qualifications provided.