Data Analyst

Job Type: Contract

Job Overview:

Requirement/Must Have:

• Degree or diploma in Business, Information Technology, or related field; OR Certified Business Analysis Professional (CBAP) certification.
• Minimum 3 years of direct experience with data manipulation, transformation, cleansing, and data wrangling.
• Minimum 3 years of direct hands-on experience designing, developing, and optimizing advanced Power BI solutions.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to work with complex and regulated datasets.
• Strong communication and documentation skills.

Experience:

• Experience validating data models and canonical definitions using real-world datasets.
• Experience analyzing measurement comparability, unit normalization, and temporal consistency.
• Experience identifying data standardization risks and opportunities.
• Experience developing analytical prototypes and exploratory data views.
• Experience supporting large-scale monitoring and reporting datasets.
• Experience evaluating aggregation behavior, trend analysis, and query scalability.

Responsibilities:

• Validate proposed canonical data elements against actual datasets.
• Validate Unified Business Object model assumptions using historical monitoring data, reporting templates, and program-specific datasets.
• Identify and surface edge cases during design and development phases.
• Perform semantic analysis on core data layers.
• Analyze measurement comparability, unit normalization, and temporal consistency issues.
• Identify where standardization is appropriate and where it may negatively impact data meaning.
• Produce evidence-based recommendations to support data architecture decisions.
• Build exploratory analytical views within the Data Management Platform.
• Test aggregation behavior, trend stability, and query feasibility at scale.
• Evaluate whether data models support cross-program trend analysis and large-scale operational requirements.
• Collaborate with business and technical teams throughout project execution.

Should Have:

• Experience leading initiatives and facilitating workshops.
• Experience communicating with senior management and cross-functional stakeholders.
• Experience presenting data and AI solutions, standards, and risk assessments.
• Experience working directly with senior leadership, architecture review boards, and service owners.
• Experience assessing and documenting gaps in data governance frameworks.
• Experience gathering requirements through interviews, workshops, process analysis, surveys, and use case development.

Skills:

• Data Analysis.
• Data Visualization.
• Power BI.
• Data Modeling.
• Data Transformation and Cleansing.
• Data Wrangling.
• Business Analysis.
• Data Governance.
• Analytical Prototyping.
• Problem Solving and Critical Thinking.

Qualification and Education:

• Degree or diploma in Business, Information Technology, or related field required.
• Certified Business Analysis Professional (CBAP) certification preferred.