Top Entry Level Data & Analytics Jobs in Chicago, IL

Designs and maintains data visualization, reporting, and business intelligence platforms. Builds Python frameworks, dashboards, reporting applications, and analytics solutions for traders, quants, and developers. Optimizes data access and query performance, supports Looker, BigQuery, Plotly Dash, and Jupyter Notebooks, translates stakeholder requirements into technical solutions, and leads migrations across tools, libraries, and data sources.

Conduct quantitative research to design, implement, and deploy mathematical trading models. Build custom tools for exploratory analysis, apply rigorous quantitative techniques to solve complex problems, and collaborate with traders and developers to productionize models while maintaining best practices.

Implement StrataJazz software for healthcare system customers by translating integration specifications, configuring ETL processes, and using SQL and Excel to solve data problems. Partner with customers and internal technical teams, lead training, communicate project risks, execute mitigation plans, and support operational improvement initiatives. The role involves healthcare financial and clinical data, Agile implementation practices, and up to 10% domestic travel.

Own digital media reporting and measurement by building Power BI dashboards, defining KPIs, identifying trends, designing experiments, supporting data clean room and incrementality initiatives, and writing SQL queries for cross-platform insights. Collaborate with engineering on data pipelines and tracking frameworks, then communicate actionable recommendations to technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Manage and interpret multiple data sources to deliver channel and customer intelligence, create and maintain reports and dashboards, analyze performance and market drivers, support product launches and commercial strategies using syndicated and customer data, and present actionable insights to Sales and Channel stakeholders to drive growth.

Supports ETF market-making by configuring and validating trading logic, onboarding products, managing venue and market-data dependencies, and analyzing production trading and execution data. Builds execution-quality metrics, identifies configuration and data-quality issues, automates validation and monitoring, supports testing and deployments, and develops productivity tools. Partners with traders and technology teams to improve workflows, controls, and trading strategies.

Deployment Strategists work with customers to identify data-driven solutions, enhance operational workflows, and support decision-making by integrating and analyzing data.

Nine-week summer analyst internship rotating across Analytics, Project Management, and Process Improvement. Contribute to data-driven analysis, support project delivery, identify process improvements, use modern tools (including AI), collaborate with stakeholders, and develop skills for a potential full-time rotational program.

Support product managers and tech leads by defining backtesting and validation plans, performing data analysis and validation for client deployments, improving data flows and operations, and conducting financial securities research and modeling (regression, simulations, portfolio risk analytics).

Participate in AHEAD’s associate development program, completing technical training, certifications, and project shadowing before supporting client data solutions projects. Responsibilities include collaborating across teams, solving complex problems, managing priorities, meeting deadlines, and developing consulting expertise. Candidates should have programming experience, SQL or NoSQL knowledge, willingness to travel extensively, and existing U.S. work authorization. Data platform and cloud experience are preferred.