Senior Business Data Analyst
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
What You’ll Do
- Working with Data Scientists and Data Engineers, use experience and hands-on approach to support generation and consumption of data for various business initiatives on next-generation data platforms.
How You’ll Do It
- Serve as a bridge between Data Scientist and Data Engineering to enable data application development. Understand at a fundamental level, our data ingestion and processing frameworks.
- Gather data application requirements from Data Scientists and other operational teams to ensure that business needs are met.
- Design transformation logic in source to targets to be implemented by partner Data Engineers.
- Partner with the Data Scientists and Data Engineers throughout the development and testing processes, ensuring that the team understands project parameters and needs.
- Schedule and run data application/model deployments and validations between Data Engineering and Data Scientists.
- Utilize deep knowledge of in-house data to assist Data Scientists in developing models, analytic processes, and reports to drive business value. Provide guidance to Data Scientists in creating efficient and fast-performing data consumption processes to meet service objectives.
- Understand logic implemented in languages such as Python, R, and other analytics tools used by Data Scientists.
- Provide support for deployed data applications and analytical models by being a trusted advisor to Data Scientists and other data consumers by identifying data problems and guiding issue-resolution with partner Data Engineers.
- Ensure that proper data governance policies are followed by implementing or validating data lineage, quality checks, classification, etc.
Qualifications You’ll Need
The Basics
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, or related field
- 2+ years of experience in data analysis, business analysis, data application programming, ETL development, or related field
- In lieu of a degree, 4+ years of experience in data analysis, business analysis, data application programming, ETL development, or related field
Bonus Points If You Have
- 1+ years of experience with Cloud technologies (Azure, Snowflake)
- Experience with SQL, Python, R, Teradata and Tableau or PowerBI
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