Data Analyst 3: Merchandising Analytics & Insights

Nordstrom, Inc.; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 103,000 - 171,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical/Vision, Dental

Retirement and PTO

Life Insurance

Merchandise Discount

Job summary

Nordstrom, Inc. is seeking a Data Analyst 3 in Insights Delivery Merchandising Analytics to design, develop, and maintain analytics solutions. You will own end-to-end deliverables, build data models, and create scalable reporting for merchandising decisions.

Collaborate with cross-functional teams to modernize reporting and improve data quality. The role emphasizes strong SQL, Looker/LookML, ETL pipelines, and hands-on BI tooling, with opportunities to automate and optimize production reports in

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent practical experience.
• 4+ years of professional experience in data analytics, business intelligence, analytics engineering, or related technical field.
• Advanced SQL skills with complex joins, window functions, CTEs and performance tuning.
• Hands-on ETL/ELT pipelines experience with Airflow and/or dbt.
• Experience with cloud-based data warehouses, preferably Google BigQuery.
• Experience building Looker/LookML and BI dashboards; Tableau or similar tools.
• Ability translate ambiguous business questions into structured technical requirements.
• Strong collaboration and communication with technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain scalable data pipelines and reporting solutions.
• Build Looker Explores, semantic models, dashboards, and self-service reporting for merchandising analytics.
• Gather requirements, define metrics, and translate needs into technical solutions.
• Modernize reporting by migrating legacy Tableau to Looker and align reports with new planning system.
• Develop analytics products across merchandising functions including planning, inventory, and open-to-buy.
• Build and troubleshoot data transformation workflows using Airflow, DBT, and cloud platforms.
• Ensure data accuracy, testing, reconciliation, and performance optimization.
• Collaborate with data engineering and upstream teams to resolve data issues and dependencies.

Skills

Advanced SQL

ETL/ELT pipelines

Looker/LookML

dbt

Airflow

BigQuery

Data modeling

BI tooling

Stakeholder communication

AI tooling

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/IS/Analytics

Tools

Google BigQuery

Looker/LookML

Tableau

Airflow

dbt

Git

Job description

Nordstrom, Inc. is seeking a Data Analyst 3 in Insights Delivery Merchandising Analytics to design, develop, and maintain analytics solutions. You will own end-to-end deliverables, build data models, and create scalable reporting for merchandising decisions.

Collaborate with cross-functional teams to modernize reporting and improve data quality. The role emphasizes strong SQL, Looker/LookML, ETL pipelines, and hands-on BI tooling, with opportunities to automate and optimize production reports in