Principal Business Data Analyst
About This Role
Discover. A brighter future.
With us, you'll do meaningful work from Day 1. Our collaborative culture is built on three core behaviors: We Play to Win, We Get Better Every Day & We Succeed Together. And we mean it - we want you to grow and make a difference at one of the world's leading digital banking and payments companies. We value what makes you unique so that you have an opportunity to shine.
Come build your future, while being the reason millions of people find a brighter financial future with Discover.
Job Description
Responsibilities:
- Provides leadership to create and enhance data solutions, enabling seamless integration and flow of data across the data ecosystem while enabling the Data Scientist to intelligently consume data, resulting in business value; senior-level data/technical consulting to peer data analysts during data application design and mentors Data Scientists in consumption of data, and technical consulting on data composition and use to data engineering when creating or enhancing data ingestion or processing frameworks.
- Be the bridge between Data Scientist and Data Engineering to enable data application development. Understands at a fundamental level our data ingestion and processing frameworks. Coordinates and obtains data application requirements from Data Scientists and other operational teams. Designs transformation logic in source to targets to be implemented by partner Data Engineers. Assists Data Scientists and Data Engineers throughout the development and testing processes. Coordinates data application/model deployments and validations between Data Engineering and Data Scientists.
- Utilizes your deep knowledge of in-house data to assist Data Scientists in developing models, analytic processes, and reports to drive business value. Provides guidance to Data Scientists in creating efficient and fast performing data consumption processes.
- Ensures proper data governance policies are followed by implementing or validating data lineage, quality checks, classification, etc.
- Provides support for deployed data applications and analytical models by being a trusted adviser to Data Scientists and other data consumers by identifying data problems and guiding issue resolution with partner-Data Engineers.
Minimum Qualifications
At a minimum, here's what we need from you:
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, or related field
- 8+ years of experience in data analysis, business analysis, data application programming, ETL development, migrating to next-generation database, or related field
- In lieu of a degree, 10+ years Data analysis, business analysis, data application programming, ETL development, migrating to next generation database, or related
Preferred Qualifications
If we had our say, we'd also look for:
- 2+ years of experience in Cloud
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