Senior Data Analyst

Senior Data Analyst

Posting Description

Habitat for Humanity International (HFHI) is seeking a Senior Data Analyst to support its data initiatives. In this position, the successful candidate will be responsible for acquiring, interpreting, and analyzing data from various sources, building data literacy with identified data stewards across the organization, and reporting results back to relevant business areas to support organizational decisions.

The primary responsibility of this role is to make recommendations about methods and ways HFHI can collect and analyze data to improve data quality and operational efficiencies across the data ecosystem.

This position may be based remotely in the U.S. and requires approximately 5% travel.

Responsibilities:

Data Analysis (30%)
*Evaluates organizational methods and provide source-to-target mappings and information-model specification documents for data sets.
*Works closely with Data Management Team resources (Data Modeler, Data Quality Engineer and others) and other Data Stewards to ensure business rules are represented accurately and maintained within all data models.
*Proactively analyzes data to answer key questions from stakeholders with focus on what drives business performance, investigating and communicating areas for improvement in efficiency and productivity.
*Creates and maintains rich interactive visualizations through data interpretation and analysis integrating various reporting components from multiple data sources.
*Develops and implements data collection systems that optimize statistical efficiency and quality that will make data evaluation process more flexible/scalable across data sets.
*Evaluates and assess data sources to produce reliable reference and master data.
*Collaborates with other data management resources to establish technical metadata i.e., data catalogs and data dictionaries in the data ecosystem.

Data Support (30%)
*Works closely with tactical Data Domain Stewards and working Team Leads to understand and maintain focus on their analytical needs by identifying critical metrics and KPIs to deliver actionable insights to decision-makers.

Data Profiling (20%)
*Evaluates internal systems for efficiency, problems, and inaccuracies, developing and maintaining protocols for handling, processing, and cleansing data.
*Identifies, analyzes, and interprets trends/patterns in data sets.
*Documents data lineage throughout the data ecosystem.
*Profiles data for understandability of how data is being defined, produced, and utilized.

Data Acquisition (10%)
*Acquires, interprets, analyzes data from various data sources utilizing statistical techniques.
*Works in collaboration with application owners to document data acquisition and integration logic to ensure methods and tools are within the defined technology stack to ensure optimal scalability and performance of the solution.

Data Training (10%)
*Creates best practice outputs based on data mining, analysis, and visualization.
*Performs other duties as assigned.

Requirements:

*Bachelor's degree.
*5+ years mining data in the role as a Data Analyst.
*Effective communicator with technical and nontechnical staff/resources.
*Experience working in a matrix organization.
*Advanced MS SQL skills with the aptitude to learn other analytic tools.
*Experience with database and model design and segmentation techniques.
*Proven data analytical ability (mining, evaluation, analysis and visualization).
*Strong technical writing experience with focus on queries, outputs (reports/dashboard), and presentations.
*Ability to collaborate effectively and work as part of a team.
*Strong problem-solving and analytical abilities.
*Strong attention to detail.
*Understandability of data lifecycle.
*Ability to work collaboratively in a fast-paced, Safe Agile environment.
* Active support of HFHI values and commitments:
- Humility – We are part of something bigger than ourselves.
- Courage – We do what’s right, even when it is difficult or unpopular.
- Accountability – We take personal responsibility for Habitat’s mission.
- Safeguarding: HFHI requires that all employees take seriously their ethical responsibilities to safeguarding our intended beneficiaries, their communities, and all those with whom we work. Managers at all levels have responsibilities to support and develop systems that create and maintain an environment that prevents harassment, sexual exploitation and abuse, safeguards the rights of beneficiaries and community members (especially children), and promotes the implementation of Habitat for Humanity’s code of conduct.

Preferred:

*Knowledgeable of DAMA DMBOK2 focused disciplines: data architecture, data modeling, data integration, reference data, metadata, and data quality.
*Ability to analyze large datasets.
*Ability to cultivate relationships, both internally and externally, to achieve HFHI initiatives.

The actual salary offered for this role will be based on a variety of factors, including location, internal equity and the candidate’s qualifications and professional experience. HFHI offers a competitive, comprehensive benefits package that varies by country and typically includes vacation leave, sick leave, personal days, health insurance options, retirement plan contributions and life insurance. For work locations in the US, the hiring range for this position is $89,340-$105,000 per year.

Deadline to apply is Monday, April 13.
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About

Habitat for Humanity International (HFHI) is a nonprofit, ecumenical Christian housing ministry. The purpose and goal of Habitat for Humanity International is to eliminate poverty housing and homelessness from the world, and to make decent shelter a matter of conscience and action. Habitat invites people of all backgrounds, races and religions to build houses in partnership with families in need. HFHI has an Administrative Headquarters based in Atlanta, Georgia, an Operational Headquarters based in Americus, Georgia and Area Office bases of operations in Manila, Philippines for our Asia and the Pacific work, San Jose, Costa Rica for our Latin American and the Caribbean work, and Bratislava, Slovakia, for our Europe, the Middle East and Africa work.

HFHI is an equal opportunity employer and seeks to employ and assign the best qualified personnel for all our positions in a manner that does not unlawfully discriminate against any person because of race, color, religion, gender, marital status, age, national origin, physical or mental disability, sexual orientation, veteran/reserve national guard status, or any other status or characteristic protected by law.

Function

Information Technology

Auto req ID

10804BR

Position Category

Full-time - Salaried

Position Type

US Employment

Geographic Location

North America

Location

Remote within the US

Position Number

1970

Required Travel

10%