Remote Data QA & Analytics Analyst

Acxiom; Austin (TX); Remote; USD 75,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Acxiom is seeking a Data Analyst to support data science and analytics for next-generation products. You will work with the Data Sciences & Analytics Team to validate and deliver product improvements, prepare data, and ensure data quality across multi-sourced datasets.

You will collaborate with data scientists and platform teams to design data requirements, build scalable data products, and create dashboards to monitor data performance.

Qualifications

• Working knowledge or experience with SQL, R, Python, Scala, Spark or similar programming language.
• 3-5 years experience with ETL, data transformation, data mart development, data source ingestion, data pipelining, data warehousing solutions.
• 3-5 years experience with cloud computing environments and/or certifications - Databricks and/or Snowflake is a plus.
• Ability to demonstrate critical thinking and enthusiasm for translating data into actionable insight to generate consistently accurate and useful analysis and models.
• Ability to quality control production processes.
• Ability to develop dashboards or reporting for monitoring data performance and consistency.
• Bachelor’s Degree in a quantitative field (Applied Mathematics, Applied Statistics, Economics, or Computer Science) or related degree programs and 3 years of relevant work experience.
• Ability to work independently when given detailed specification and instruction.
• Standout colleague, flexible, and creative.
• Attention to detail and time management delivering high quality work while meeting deadlines.
• Experience working with large datasets.
• Experience Microsoft Office suite – especially Excel, Power Point, Word

Responsibilities

• Research and understand Acxiom products, tools, and processes
• Assist with the validation and delivery of products or improvements
• Prepare analysis datasets by appending data, deduping, loading data to analysis applications, and merging with other datasets
• Perform queries on the data to discern data anomalies and quality audits to ensure the accuracy of the rules or statistical models
• Assist with engineering, build teams, delivery and platform teams to ensure appropriate data delivery and presentation
• Perform basic research/analysis which includes accuracy reports, cross-tabs, frequencies, data hygiene, correlations, data summarizations, and profiles reports or profile data
• Collaborate with other data scientists and team leads to define project requirements including data sources, algorithms, and implementation
• Offer ideas for product and/or process improvements such as automation related to focus area of work
• Extract, load, and transform data as preparation for modeling. Build and maintain data mart solutions to support scored model outputs

Skills

SQL

R

Python

Scala

Spark

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in a quantitative field

Tools

Databricks

Snowflake

Job description

Acxiom is seeking a Data Analyst to support data science and analytics for next-generation products. You will work with the Data Sciences & Analytics Team to validate and deliver product improvements, prepare data, and ensure data quality across multi-sourced datasets.

You will collaborate with data scientists and platform teams to design data requirements, build scalable data products, and create dashboards to monitor data performance.