Sr Data Analyst (SQL + SAS) | McLean VA (Glider required for review)

This position may be offered to a candidate authorized to work in the US for his/her/their stated employer, without any restrictions which would prevent the candidate from working on the proposed assignment for the duration of the assignment period.

Position Overview

If you are a confident, poised, self-motivated, analytical thinker with strong communication skills and a passion for data, then this role is for you.

The Data Analytics Senior will be responsible for performing various tasks across the loan sourcing processes and systems with a focus on data to streamline knowledge across the end-to-end data lifecycle.

Key duties include:

• data discovery
• data lineage
• data profiling
• data flow management and process documentation
• data requirements
• operational reporting and analytics
• planning and meeting facilitation across multiple stakeholders

Your Impact

• Cultivate and manage relationships across multiple Sdepartments, including Operations application or business process owners
• Interact and communicate effectively with key Business and IT partners at all levels.
• Facilitate and prepare for meetings including creating agendas, develop meeting materials, scribe meeting minutes and outline action items and next steps.
• Lead, support and prioritize multiple concurrent efforts in various capacities.
• Continuously improve processes that streamline knowledge of data to understand impacts of change.
• Prepare for meetings by establishing a clear objective, confirming attendee participation and creating meeting materials ahead of the discussion.
• Clearly outline and guide other's data analysis approach and assumptions to verify efforts satisfy the objective and meet deliverable timelines.
• Analyze, design, develop and execute tasks that meet the objective.
• Provide support to application owners to bring data expertise from IT into the business.
• Perform impact assessments and proposing issue resolution and process improvements.
• Ensure deliverables are completed on time with accurate information requiring limited oversight.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in data analysis, business process modeling, data management or operations.
• College degree or equivalent experience; advanced studies/degree preferred.
• Understanding of Cloud technology (AWS) and data management (Data Lake, Datawarehouse)
• Ability to operate as a self-motivated, pro-active, and result-driven problem solver with
• Excellent analytical and communication skills.
• Ability to understand and analyze IT business processes and data architecture diagrams.
• Working knowledge of Microsoft Excel functions, SQL, JSON, XML, SAS, or Python

Preferred Skills

• Knowledge and experience in the primary or secondary lending markets.
• Experience in project management, project consulting services and/or system development life cycle.
• Knowledge and experience in project methodologies and change management principals.
• Familiarity with system architecture and technical terminology.

Keys to Success in this Role

• Have the ability to tell 'the story' about the data and the end-to-end data lifecycle as it relates to customer impacts, including; data lineage, valid values, data transformations and downstream consumers within and across applications and services.
• Continuously learn while partnering with others to overcome obstacles.
• Demonstrate an ability to test and learn while taking calculated risks and managing expectations of how and when tasks will be completed.
• Demonstrate an ability to learn, share knowledge, lead and motivate others.
• Adept in working in a fast-paced, dynamic environment with diverse personalities.
• Understand the business and our customers.
• Have an attention to detail with an ability to clearly outline a task's objective, approach and results.

Required Skills : Data Analysis,SAS,SQL
Additional Skills : Data Analyst,Analyst Senior