Senior Data Analyst – Enterprise Risk

Jobtailor; McLean (VA); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Jobtailor is seeking a data analytics professional in McLean, VA to design, develop, and deploy scalable data solutions. You will collaborate with business teams to translate needs into actionable dashboards and metrics, ensuring data quality and governance across warehouses and platforms.

The role emphasizes leveraging Open Source tools, Snowflake, and BI visualization to deliver insights that drive strategic decisions in a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

• Degree specialized in a Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics discipline.
• Scripting experience in Python, R, Spark, and SQL.
• Experience with data in warehouses/SQL and unstructured data.
• Experience with Snowflake services.
• Bachelor’s or Master’s in a quantitative field with analytics experience.

Responsibilities

• Leverage analytic and technical skills to build and maintain data solutions and capabilities to tackle business problems.
• Mine data sources using Open Source/Digital technologies to enable insights.
• Develop tools and dashboards to enable self-service data for consumers.
• Explore new technologies to progress multiple initiatives.
• Translate business needs into tools, metrics, and dashboards for insights and data visualization.
• Drive analysis to support business strategies.
• Support data quality management including metadata and lineage definitions.
• Collaborate with Tech teams on data access governance and security mechanisms.
• Build tools to monitor and report on data quality.

Skills

Python

R

Spark

SQL

Data analytics

Data quality management

Data visualization

Data warehousing

Snowflake

Business intelligence

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Master's Degree

Job description

Responsibilities

• leverage analytic and technical skills to innovate, build, and maintain well‑managed data solutions and capabilities to tackle business problems
• Use Open Source/Digital technologies to mine complex, voluminous, and different varieties of data sources and platforms
• Build well‑managed data solutions, tools, and capabilities to enable self‑service frameworks for data consumers
• Demonstrate ability to explore and quickly grasp new technologies to progress varied initiatives
• Partner with the business to provide consultancy and translate the business needs to design and develop tools, techniques, metrics, and dashboards for insights and data visualization
• Drive analysis that provides meaningful insights on business strategies
• Drive an understanding and adherence to the principles of data quality management including metadata, lineage, and business definitions
• Work collaboratively with appropriate Tech teams to manage security mechanisms and data access governance
• Build and execute tools to monitor and report on data quality

Requirements

• Degree specialized in a Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics discipline
• Scripting experience in (Python, R, Spark, and SQL)
• Strong desire and experience with data in various forms (data warehouses/SQL, unstructured data)
• Experience utilizing and developing within Snowflake services
• Currently has, or is in the process of obtaining a Bachelor’s Degree in quantitative field (Statistics, Economics, Operations Research, Analytics, Mathematics, Computer Science or a related quantitative field) plus at least 2 years of experience performing data analytics, or currently has, or is in the process of obtaining a Master’s Degree with an expectation that required degree will be obtained on or before the scheduled start date.
• At least 1 year of experience working with at least one scripting language
• At least 1 year of experience utilizing business intelligence visualization tool
• At least 1 year of experience querying, analyzing and working with data languages and platforms

Hard Skills

• Python
• R
• Spark
• SQL
• data analytics
• data quality management
• data visualization
• data warehousing
• Snowflake
• business intelligence

Soft Skills

• analytical skills
• technical skills
• consultancy
• collaboration
• communication
• problem-solving
• adaptability
• initiative
• insight generation
• data-driven decision making

Certifications & Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree
• Master's Degree