IT Analyst (Data)

Position Summary

Coordinates transitions to new vendors, new business or technical processes, new technology or significant changes to current technology. Implements changes that will affect business or technical processes with a moderate to high impact for stakeholders and will present challenges in complexity or deadlines. May perform duties in one or more of the following disciplines: Business Data Business Intelligence Security Quality User Experience Production Control

What You Will Do:

This is an opportunity for an IT Analyst (Data) and will focus on the delivery of Commercial Lines initiatives. The primary assignment is for Workers Compensation projects but may also support data analysis needs for other projects in the department. 

• Serves as a data modeler within a project team; performs complex modeling efforts within a portfolio; creating data models utilizing various data modeling languages, data model types, data model best practices, data model use cases and technologies.
• Proficient in reverse/forward engineering data models; performs inter-portfolio data model reviews.
• Develops and enforces data naming standards and best practices by aligning with Enterprise Data Architects.
• Creates efficient technology agnostic conceptual & logical data models i.e. relational (OLTP), dimensional (OLAP).
• Creates data attributes & definitions by eliciting business requirements or leveraging existing definitions from metadata tools such as Information Governance Catalog (IGC).
• Creates efficient physical data models optimal for technologies such as NoSQL and relational databases (RDBMS) in association with database engineers and administrators.
• Collaborates with Lead and Principal data analysts to ensure consistency on the data modeling best practices.
• Reviews professional data modeler deliverables

Preferred Experience and Skills:

• Code/decode analysis and development
• Logical data modeling
• Data requirements elicitation
• Canonical mapping analysis

What Makes You Stand Out:

• Prior experience in data analysis
• Prior experience with the Agile methodology

Duties and Responsibilities

• Analyzes business or technical processes with a moderate to high impact for stakeholders.
• Conducts research, generates comparisons, draws conclusions, makes recommendations and validates solutions to effect transitional changes.
• Ensures actions are in alignment with enterprise strategies.
• Collaborates across multiple teams to drive analysis management processes (i.e. business, quality, experience, system).
• Utilizes technical guidance received from leaders and higher-level peers to address complex problems and projects. 
• Effectively communicates with customers, team members or other stakeholders to ensure successful outcomes.
• Participates in the execution and implementation of solutions.

The first six duties listed are the functions identified as essential to the job. Essential functions are those job duties that must be performed in order for the job to be accomplished.

This position description in no way states or implies that these are the only duties to be performed by the incumbent. Employees are required to follow any other job-related instruction and to perform any other duties as requested by their supervisor, or as become clear.

Competencies

Qualifications

Minimum Educational Requirements and Experience Equivalencies:

• Bachelor's degree in IT, MIS, Business or related field, plus two years' related experience; or
• Associate's degree in a technical field, plus four years' related experience; or
• High school diploma plus six years' related experience.

Physical Requirements