Principal Data Analytics & Insights Leader

Quest Technology Management; United States; Hybrid; USD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Quest Technology Management seeks a Principal Business Data Analyst to lead data-driven decision support. You will collaborate with business teams to define needs, mentor analysts, and apply analytics techniques to generate insights.

You will develop forecasts, build dashboards, and communicate results to stakeholders, enabling optimized decisions while ensuring data governance and security.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience as stated in the job specs.
• 6+ years of demonstrated data analytics experience including querying and analyzing operational and/or financial data.
• Experience leading analytics projects in domains such as Financial Management, Forecasting, Risk Assessment, or Healthcare Management.
• Proficient in building complex data queries using SQL to join, filter, cleanse, and aggregate data; knowledge of no/low-code SQL applications.
• Proficient in designing data workflows and business-oriented data models against relational databases.
• Proficient in visualization and dashboard design to monitor KPIs and highlight trends.
• Experience using PowerBI, Cognos Analytics, Tableau, SAS or similar for data exploration.
• Experience applying statistical modeling to forecast and what-if scenarios.
• Strong strategic skills, business acumen, and curiosity to define requirements and deliver outcomes.
• Familiarity with Data Science techniques and notebooks (Jupyter) with Python and R.
• Excellent written and verbal communication, presentation, and analytical skills.
• For remote/hybrid roles, ability to engage in virtual environments with camera presence.

Responsibilities

• Lead engagements with business leaders to clarify needs and define requirements for strategic data use.
• Perform data exploration, analysis and statistical inference to identify trends and risks.
• Develop forecasts, regression models, what-if scenarios and actionable recommendations.
• Lead the creation of dashboards, visualizations and reports to monitor performance and automate where possible.
• Communicate insights clearly to advance organizational understanding.
• Collaborate with enterprise analytics and data management to articulate data needs and models.
• Produce workflows and data models using enterprise tools and integrating external data sets.
• Develop prototype models joining large data across domains for other analysts.
• Identify opportunities for machine learning and collaborate with Data Scientists to deliver value.
• Contribute to data inventory, metadata management, data quality remediation and governance.
• Maintain high standards and comply with data security and privacy policies.

Skills

Data analytics

SQL

Data visualization

PowerBI

Tableau

Cognos Analytics

Python

R

Mentoring

Data modeling

Education

Bachelor’s degree in statistics/analytics/economics/computer science or related field

Tools

PowerBI

Cognos Analytics

Tableau

SAS

Jupyter

R

Job description

Quest Technology Management seeks a Principal Business Data Analyst to lead data-driven decision support. You will collaborate with business teams to define needs, mentor analysts, and apply analytics techniques to generate insights.

You will develop forecasts, build dashboards, and communicate results to stakeholders, enabling optimized decisions while ensuring data governance and security.