Specialist, Data Analyst [HCGT 007975]

Job Description

Job Description:

- Responsible for understanding data and descriptive analysis, performing relevant activities across all project phases (including source data ingest, data modeling and preparation, and data wrangling directly in reporting tools).
- Explores and wrangles data to define necessary data processing rules to support insights needs.
- Builds analyses/reports that support business goals based on understanding of the customer/stakeholder's business needs/ priorities and helps to build analyses that support business goals.
- Use of AI to help with data analysis and model creation and use of AI in Power BI as well.

Key Responsibilities:

- Mines and analyzes data from disparate databases/sources to drive optimization and improvement.
- Develop and maintain Power BI reports and apps
- Understands the complexity/dependencies between multiple teams, platforms (people, technologies).
- Communicates intensively with other platform/competencies to understand new trends and methodologies being implemented/considered within the company ecosystem.
- Appreciates the customer/stakeholder's business needs/priorities and helps to build analyses that support our business goals.
- Establishes and manages the close relationship with customers/stakeholders.
- Accountable for ensuring delivery analyses with high-quality standards, timeliness, compliance, and excellent user experience.
- Contributes to innovative experiments, specifically to idea generation, idea incubation, and/or experimentation, identifying tangible and measurable criteria.
- Conducts profiling, standardization, and harmonization to collect business rules.
- Queries data to identify patterns and/or anomalies.
- Support testing efforts.
- Manage business testing and validation of insights.

What should you have

- Bachelors’ degree in Information Technology, Computer Science or any Technology stream.
- 3+ years of developing data pipelines, Data analysis, Data Modelling, Power BI data infrastructure.
- Demonstrated expertise in delivering large-scale information management technology solutions encompassing data integration and self-service analytics enablement.
- Working knowledge of Power Apps, Power Automate and SharePoint
- Experienced in software/data engineering practices (including versioning, release management, deployment of datasets, agile & related software tools).
- Working knowledge of at least one large-scale data processing technology (e.g., High-performance computing, distributed computing), databases, and underlying technology (cloud or on-prem environments, containerization, distributed storage & databases)
- Strong working knowledge of Power BI
- Knowledge in Cloud (Good to have)
- Data access in cloud and some basic knowledge
- Good interpersonal and communication skills (verbal and written).
- Proven record of delivering high-quality results.
- Product and customer-centric approach.
- Innovative thinking, experimental mindset.

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Required Skills:
Business Analysis, Business Analysis, Business Decisions, Business Informatics, Business Intelligence (BI), Business Needs, Cloud Computing, Conceptual Thinking, Customer Centricity, Customer Engagement, Customer-Focused, Customer Validation, Data Access, Data Analysis, Data Integration, Data Management, Data Modeling, Data Visualization, Ideation, Insight Generation, Measurement Analysis, Relationship Management, Reporting Tools, Stakeholder Relationship Management, Standards Compliance {+ 1 more}

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Regular

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Hybrid

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Job Posting End Date:
10/19/2026
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