Senior Data Strategist & Insights Leader

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

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.