Beacon Technologies is seeking a Data Analyst for our client partner. The Data Analyst will help our client's organization turn data into information, information into insight, and insight into business decisions. This role will involve close collaboration with various teams within the organization to ensure data-driven decision making. The main responsibilities of the Data Analyst role include acting as a liaison between the Data and Analytics and Data Science teams and our internal customers, developing requirements for data specific projects or other efforts impacting our data infrastructure, documenting and testing data solutions, and helping to prioritize our Data and Analytics work backlog. This role will collaborate with and lead cross-functional teams to ensure data availability, reliability, and performance for analytics, reporting, and data science purposes. This role offers an exciting opportunity to work with cutting-edge technologies and contribute to data-driven decision-making within the organization. This role leads project data-related efforts, provides support to business partners, project managers, Scrum Masters, and vendor resources involved in project execution. They will lead requirements gathering and analysis efforts on medium to large projects. They will attend, coordinate, and lead meetings as needed. Complete and track action items and deliverables. Attention to detail, organization, communication, and self-initiative are key skills for this role.

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS:

• Education: Bachelor’s degree in mathematics, economics, computer science, information management, or statistics, or equivalent education and/or work experience preferred.
• Experience: 5+ years direct work experience in a Data Analyst, Business Analyst, or other similar capacity.
• Possess a high-level understanding of modern data warehouse/lake/lakehouse architectures.
• Strong knowledge of data gathering, cleaning, and transforming techniques.
• Demonstrated experience with SQL and relational databases (e.g. MS-SQL).
• Demonstrated experience with semi-structured data formats (e.g. Parquet, JSON, XML).
• Strong knowledge of modern data technologies and tools (e.g., Hadoop, Spark, Kafka).
• Demonstrated experience with reporting and dashboarding tools such as Power BI or Informatica.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Meets with business customers to help understand and document their needs for data, analytics, and AI.
• Implements data quality checks and monitoring to identify and rectify data inconsistencies or anomalies.
• Collaborates with internal business customers to understand and document their data requirements.
• Translates data findings into understandable documents and reports.
• Works closely with the data team to design and implement data solutions.
• Presents data-driven recommendations to the team and stakeholders.
• Informally mentors data team members.
• Actively participates and leads the data governance Center of Excellence.
• Performs other related duties as required and assigned.
• The job description and responsibilities described are intended to provide guidelines for job expectations and the employee's ability to perform the position described. It is not intended to be construed as an exhaustive list of all functions, responsibilities, skills, and abilities.
• Additional functions and requirements may be assigned by supervisors as deemed appropriate.

About Beacon Technologies

Are you looking to advance your career in information technology? Beacon Technologies offers career advancement opportunities, extensive training, and excellent benefits including paying for health and dental premiums for salaried employees. In addition to providing interesting opportunities, Beacon Technologies provides that old fashioned, personal touch, so you feel like a part of the Beacon team.

Beacon Technologies, Inc. is an equal employment opportunity employer with a functioning Affirmative Action Plan. It is the policy of Beacon Technologies, Inc. to ensure equal employment opportunity without discrimination or harassment on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, marital status, citizenship, national origin, genetic information, ethnicity, ancestry, disability, medical condition, military and veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Beacon Technologies, Inc. prohibits any such discrimination or harassment.