Job Description:
A Data Analyst interprets data and turns it into information which can offer ways to improve a business, thus affecting business decisions. Data Analysts gather information from various sources and interpret patterns and trends as such a Data Analyst job description should highlight the analytical nature of the role. Once data has been gathered and interpreted, the Data Analyst will report back what has been found in a comprehensive study to the wider business/relevant colleagues.
Primary Responsibilities:
- Collaborate to design and develop schemas and data acquisition, transformations, and data integration.
- Develop and utilize software to interface big data and relational solutions.
- Design and implement solutions for metadata, data quality, privacy management.
- Support and consult with the development staff.
- Collecting and interpreting data
- Analyzing results
- Reporting the results back to the relevant members of the business
- Identifying patterns and trends in data sets
- Working alongside teams within the business or the management team to establish business needs
- Defining new data collection and analysis processes
Top 5 Skill sets:
- SKILL: Data Analysis and Exploration
- SKILL: Gathering Business Requirements, Building metadata schema by doing data profiling
- SKILL: Structured Query Language and Database Management
- SKILL: Problem-Solving
- SKILL: Communication and Stakeholder management
Qualifications:
- Technical Degree or related work experience
- Ability to analyze existing tools and databases and provide software solution recommendations.
- Ability to translate business requirements into non-technical, lay terms.
- High-level experience in methodologies and processes for managing large scale databases.
- Demonstrated experience in handling large data sets and relational databases