Senior Data Analyst

Rock Connections; Detroit (MI); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Rocket, a Detroit-based company, is seeking a Senior Data Analyst to collect, organize and analyze data from diverse sources to turn numbers into actionable insights. You will lead data projects, create dashboards, and mentor peers, driving informed decisions across business units.

The role emphasizes leadership, deep data knowledge, and collaboration with executives to challenge solutions and uncover opportunities in a dynamic environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in a STEM field.
• 4 years of experience identifying business problems and guiding decisions.
• Experience leading end-to-end data analysis projects.
• Expertise in BI tool data visualization.
• Proficiency with SAS, R or Python.
• Experience mentoring peers.
• Experience creating datasets with advanced SQL.
• Experience with data warehouses.
• Experience data mining / exploratory techniques.
• Experience with structured and unstructured data.
• Experience writing data analysis software functions.
• Experience contributing to standards and processes.
• Knowledge of data models.
• Domain knowledge across multiple business areas.

Responsibilities

• Identify business opportunities and recommendations using data manipulation and visualization.
• Support solutions with executive leadership or other stakeholders.
• Lead design and validation for all phases of research projects.
• Maintain relationships with stakeholders to meet objectives.
• Define, gather, and validate project data requirements and evaluate data quality.
• Evaluate the quality of organizational data sources.
• Create and support BI tools, dashboards, reports or methods.
• Document technical design standards for reporting solutions.
• Identify exploratory data analysis to investigate assumptions.
• Identify and analyze external data to monitor the competitive environment.
• Stay informed of industry or business trends related to data.
• Mentor teammates on responsibilities.

Skills

Data visualization

SQL querying

Python/R/SAS

Mentoring peers

BI tools

Data warehousing

Data mining

Structured data

Unstructured data

Statistical analysis

Leadership

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent

Tools

SAS

R

Python

SQL

Job description

As the Senior Data Analyst, you specialize in collecting, organizing and analyzing data from various sources with the purpose of turning numbers into context and recommendations. You paint a picture of how the business is operating using a variety of data analysis techniques and statistics. You integrate, transform and improve volumes of data at the project or company level for streamlined processes, greater efficiencies and more informed decision-making. As a Senior Data Analyst, you must demonstrate leadership among peers and extremely deep knowledge of your industry and business.

About the role

• Proactively identify and communicate business opportunities and recommendations using data manipulation, programming, statistics and data visualization
• Use data to support and challenge business solutions with executive leadership or other stakeholders
• Lead design and validation for all phases of research projects, including presentation of results, guiding iterative improvement
• Maintain relationships and alignment among stakeholders to meet objectives
• Define, gather, and validate project data requirements and evaluate data quality
• Evaluate the quality of organizational data sources
• Create and support business intelligence tools, databases, dashboards, reports or methods
• Document technical design standards for reporting solutions to ensure their accurate development
• Identify, document, and use exploratory data analysis to investigate assumptions
• Identify and analyze relevant, external data to monitor the competitive environment
• Stay informed of industry or business trends that pertain to data
• Mentor teammates on any of the above responsibilities

About you

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience in a scientific discipline, mathematics, applied statistics, information technology or a related field
• 4 years of experience or equivalent competency identifying business problems, conducting data experiments, performing statistical analysis and synthesizing findings to guide business decisions
• Experience leading end-to-end data analysis projects resulting in positive business changes
• Expertise creating data visualizations using modern business intelligence (BI) tools, highlighting insights as relevant
• Proficiency with industry-standard statistical analysis tools, such as SAS, R or Python
• Experience training and mentoring peers
• Experience creating data sets with advanced SQL or other querying languages and using them to develop business strategies
• Experience researching data lineage
• Advanced practical knowledge of standard statistical measures, probability theory and both qualitative and quantitative techniques
• Experience working with data warehouses
• Experience data mining or using other exploratory techniques
• Experience working with structured and unstructured data
• Experience writing software functions to support data analysis
• Experience contributing to standards and processes that increase efficiency and impact
• Conceptual knowledge of logical and physical data models
• Domain knowledge of multiple business areas

Preferred Qualifications

• Comprehensive knowledge of at least one business area and its data, including industry or other external sources
• Experience in several business areas and familiarity with associated data
• Conceptual knowledge of big data, machine learning, or data science

What you’ll get

Our team members fuel our strategy, innovation and growth, so we ensure the health and well-being of not just you, but your family, too! We go above and beyond to give you the support you need on an individual level and offer all sorts of ways to help you live your best life. We are proud to offer eligible team members perks and health benefits that will help you have peace of mind. Simply put: We’ve got your back. Check out our full list of Benefits and Perks.

About us

Rocket is a Detroit-based company made up of businesses that provide simple, fast and trusted digital solutions for complex transactions. The name comes from our flagship business, now known as Rocket Mortgage®, which was founded in 1985. Today, we’re a publicly traded company involved in many different industries, including mortgages, fintech, real estate and more. We’re insistently different in how we look at the world and are committed to an inclusive workplace where every voice is heard.

This job description is an outline of the primary responsibilities of this position and may be modified at the discretion of the company at any time. Decisions related to employment are not based on race, color, religion, national origin, sex, physical or mental disability, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, military or veteran status or any other characteristic protected by state or federal law. The company provides reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities in accordance with applicable state and federal laws. Applicants requiring reasonable accommodations in completing the application and/or participating in the application process should contact a member of the Human Resources team, at [e-mail].