Job Description:

• The Guaranteed Rate Strategy team is looking for a passionate self-starter who loves the challenge of solving problems by working with cross functional teams to build tools and reporting dashboards that deepen our collective understanding of our customers, influence innovation, and deliver actionable insights. The GR Strategy team presents exciting opportunities to build analytics on very large data sets. Our current reporting architecture leverages Tableau. Our team is serious about great scalable design and redefining best practices with scalability and automation.

   

  As a Senior Tableau Analyst on this team, you will be leading the technical charter on reporting platform for self-service analytics and you will solve complex analytical problems. You will have a direct interaction with business teams such as marketing, product, content acquisition and senior leadership and you will translate their business requirements into technical specifications. You will partner effectively with the numerous teams on common areas of scalability, data quality management, data delivery management and performance optimization. You will work closely with the business and technical teams in analysis on many non-standard and unique business problems and use creative-problem solving to deliver actionable output. Your work will have a direct impact on the day-to-day decision making at Guaranteed Rate.

   

  The Guaranteed Rate Culture

  Guaranteed Rate is not your typical mortgage company. We passionately pursue the vision that our CEO, Victor Ciardelli laid out over 15 years ago; simplify and modernize the Mortgage Loan process. We are young at heart, have tons of energy and we love what we do. Our corporate office is conveniently located right off the Brown line and features amenities like an onsite nurse practitioner, a massage therapist, gym and onsite chef. There are regular company events and gatherings held on our 5,000 square foot rooftop deck and employees have full access to it if they feel like working outside with a great view of the city.

   

  Responsibilities:

  • Tableau Developer with an expertise to create visualizations that provide business insights for our global customers.
  • Expertise in SQL, can independently mine data to translate Business data needs into creative visualizations.
  • Have experience with performance tuning specific to Tableau.
  • Trusted to work independently with stakeholders at all levels
  • Excellent communication skills to be able to work with business owners to develop and define key business questions and to build specification for the data sets that answer those questions.
  • Projects will include requirements gathering, design, deployment, and on-going enhancements request.
  • Build prototypes for demonstration and illustration purposes for peer groups, Business partners, or senior leaders.
  • Support peers and stakeholders as a Subject Matter Expert (SME) through troubleshooting, analysis of results.
  • Act as mentor and Tableau SME for other Tableau users across the company.
  • Look for opportunities to improve current processes or find efficiencies by applying industry best practices as a BI developer.

   

  Basic Qualifications

  • 5+ years of industry experience with BI Development - reports, metadata layer, dashboards, using SQL queries or other BI tools.
  • 3+ years of experience using Tableau
  • 3+ years of experience using SQL
  • Experience and or course work with statistics

   

  Preferred Qualifications

  • Excellent analytical, critical thinking, and problem solving skills.
  • Ability to partner with internal and external peer groups to design and implement solutions.
  • Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.

  Guaranteed Rate is an Equal Opportunity Employer that welcomes and encourages all applicants to apply regardless of age, race, sex, religion, color, national origin, disability, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, marital or parental status, ancestry, citizenship status, pregnancy or other reason protected by law.