Data Analyst

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Overview

Knights of Columbus is seeking a Data Analyst to join a growing team of data analytics professionals and a best-in-class Data Analytics Center of Excellence.  This role will be part of a diversified analytical team, whose aim is to expand new and upcoming data integration, data profiling, and data driven decision-making for business units, while staying closely aligned to brand strategy and priorities.   

The Data Analyst is responsible for identifying, building, and maintaining data analytics solutions to meet the needs of business users. This role will produce analytics products by working with the business and the other data analysts to delivering outcomes of high complexity.

Core Responsibilities

• Actively collaborate with business leaders to understand their business goals and objectives and provide them with new data analytics solutions to enable them to expand markets and grow membership, sales, investments, and charitable giving through the following:
• Develop detailed and thorough source-to-target mappings in support of engineering integrations
• Write complex analytical queries in support various proofs of concept, data modelling, and data profiling exercises
• Develop thorough data validation and quality assurance test cases for data integration pipelines
• Identifying and enhancing valuable data sources (within the organization and externally) through the enrichment of existing in-house data with third party data sources.
• Communicating insights through the development and implementation of data visualizations, dashboards, and reports for internal and external use.
• Collaborating with Department managers, IT, IT Security, Data Warehouse, vendors, and contractors with regards to enterprise and departmental data needs.
• Remaining current on new analytical trends, practices, technologies, and solutions, where appropriate to ensure their timely introduction for competitive advantage.
• Meeting with stakeholders and making communication easy and transparent regarding project issues and decisions.
• Other related duties as assigned

Skills Qualifications

• Analyze, interpret, and present data using industry relevant software
• Effective oral and written skills.
• Being comfortable talking about technical matters with businesspeople and business matters with technical people.
• Ability to come up with previously uncovered analysis on business improvement based on new data sets
• Ability to verbally articulate complex analysis and insight simply
• Ability to analyze information to find trends or diagnose problem areas.
• Be decisive – ownership of the data gathered and the ability to make informed, critical decisions quickly.
• Understanding of cloud-based application architectures.
• Expert understanding of project management.
• Excellent interpersonal, analytical, and problem-solving skills.

Systems/Technical Knowledge:  

• Experience with Snowflake ecosystem
• Strong SQL programming skills.
• Experience with Data Vault 2.0 and Dimensional Modelling
• Familiarity with Data Lake House and Medallion architecture
• Proficiency in several areas of data modeling, statistical analysis, data engineering and data visualization Experience with databases and similar applications.

• Relates well to others, engages people, and helps them understand change, provides and looks for feedback, articulates clearly, and actively listens.
• Teamwork skills with the ability to work in complex cross-functional settings.
• Comfortable working in a constantly changing work environment with multiple competing projects and priorities; able to work well with complexity and ambiguity.
• Understanding of change management principles.
• Ability to gather data, compile information, and prepare reports.

Education

BA or BS degree with emphasis in Business, Statistics, Analytics, or Marketing. Master’s degree in Business, Statistics, Computer Science, or Marketing preferred, or equivalent professional experience.

Experience:

• 3 to 5 years of Data analysis or data engineering. Working within a business function to support the data building and analysis for business units. 
• Record of business process improvement using data

Compensation

The wage range for this role takes into account a broad array of factors that are considered in making compensation decisions, including but not limited to: skill sets; experience and training; licensure and certifications; and other business and organizational needs.  The range below applies as long as the work is performed in Connecticut; the Knights of Columbus reserves the right to adjust the wage range if the position is performed in another location.  At the Knights of Columbus, it is not typical for an individual to be hired at or near the top of the range for their role, and compensation decisions are dependent on the facts and circumstances of each case. A reasonable estimate of the current range is $78,000-$132,500.

Physical Demands

Authorization to work in the US is required

This position is not eligible for visa sponsorship.