Senior Data Analyst - Insights, Dashboards & Strategy

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Co; Dublin; On-site; EUR 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt is seeking a Data Analyst to help deliver critical digital insights and visualizations that guide strategy. You will create datasets, dashboards and metrics to support product development decisions and migrate data between systems, data lakes and data marts.

The role requires 3+ years of experience and strong SQL, R, or Python skills, with a focus on clear, actionable reporting and data documentation for diverse audiences.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience in a data analyst role.
• Experience using scripting languages like SQL, R, or Python to build strategic analytic datasets.
• Experience simplifying time-intensive processes through the development of programmatic solutions.
• Manage, organize and present data in a clear, concise, and actionable format to a wide array of audiences.
• Expertise in data documentation, including creation/modification of data dictionaries, handling versioning and quality control of conflicting datasets.
• Strong analytic, critical thinking, and decision-making skills.
• Excellent English verbal and written communication skills and the ability to clearly communicate complex results to technical and non-technical audiences.

Responsibilities

• Make data accessible to a variety of end-users with varied data needs.
• Import, clean, transform, validate, and analyze data with the purpose of understanding and drawing conclusions from data for decision making and product development purposes.
• Integrate data from multiple sources, applying complex rules to create analytic data sets.
• Test data to identify data integrity issues, troubleshooting problems and makes recommendations and coordinating with the Data Scientists/Psychometricians to plan solutions.
• Perform descriptive statistical analyses and build datasets and dashboards that provide actionable insight to key stakeholders.

Skills

SQL

R

Python

Big Data tools

Git

Tools

Git

Job description

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt is seeking a Data Analyst to help deliver critical digital insights and visualizations that guide strategy. You will create datasets, dashboards and metrics to support product development decisions and migrate data between systems, data lakes and data marts.

The role requires 3+ years of experience and strong SQL, R, or Python skills, with a focus on clear, actionable reporting and data documentation for diverse audiences.