Principal Data Analyst

Description

The company started as a startup and changed the credit card market in 1988 by personalizing each offer with statistical modeling and relational databases. It has since grown into a Fortune 200 company that leads in data-driven decision-making.

As a Data Analyst here, you will use analytics and technical skills to build and maintain sound data solutions that address business problems.

The Bank Tech Analytics team serves Bank Tech and shares its work across the wider organization. It covers metrics and insight frameworks, applied analytics, operational automation and AI integration. The team works with stakeholders and runs automated data pipelines on Snowflake/Onelake and Databricks to turn complex information into actionable insights and custom reports. Its goals include improving the developer experience, helping leaders set strategy and encouraging collaboration across the enterprise.

Responsibilities

• Your work falls into three areas: innovation, business intelligence and data management.
• Innovation: use open source and digital tools to mine large, complex and varied data sources and platforms.
• Innovation: build sound data solutions, tools and capabilities that let data users serve themselves.
• Innovation: pick up new technologies quickly and apply them across different initiatives.
• Business intelligence: work with the business as a consultant, turning its needs into tools, techniques, metrics and dashboards for insight and visualization.
• Business intelligence: run analysis that gives meaningful insight into business strategy.
• Data management: promote understanding of and adherence to data quality principles, including metadata, lineage and business definitions.
• Data management: work with technology teams to manage security controls and data access governance.
• Data management: build and run tools that monitor data quality and report on it.

Requirements

• Hold a bachelor's degree in a quantitative field such as statistics, economics, operations research, analytics, mathematics, computer science or a related area, plus at least 5 years of data analytics experience. Alternatively, hold a master's degree plus at least 3 years of data analytics experience, with the bachelor's degree expected by the scheduled start date. You may already have the degree or be working toward it.
• At least 3 years working with a scripting language.
• At least 3 years using a business intelligence visualization tool.
• At least 3 years querying, analyzing and working with data languages and platforms.
• A degree in a science, technology, engineering or mathematics discipline.
• Scripting skills in Python, R, Spark or SQL.
• Strong interest in, and experience with, data in many forms, such as data warehouses, SQL and unstructured data.
• Experience using and building on AWS services.
• Preferred: a master's degree in a science, technology, engineering or mathematics discipline.
• Preferred: at least 4 years coding in Python, R, Spark or SQL.
• Preferred: at least 4 years in process management and improvement methods such as Agile, Lean or Six Sigma.
• Preferred: at least 2 years using and building on AWS services.
• Preferred: at least 2 years delivering data governance and data quality management in financial services.

Conditions

This is a hybrid role. You must follow the company's hybrid policy on on-site presence at your assigned office location.

Full-time annual salary ranges by location for this role: McLean, VA $131,300 to $149,800; New York, NY $143,200 to $163,500; Richmond, VA $119,400 to $136,200.

Hires in other locations receive the range for their location, and the exact salary is stated in the offer letter.

These salary figures apply only to hires working in the listed locations and reflect what the company is willing to pay when the posting is made. Part-time salaries are prorated by the agreed hours.

The company will consider sponsoring a new qualified applicant for employment authorization for this role.

Applications will be accepted for at least 5 business days.

No agencies.

Positions in Canada are with the company Canada, positions in the United Kingdom are with the company Europe, and positions in the Philippines are with the company Philippines Service Corp. (COPSSC).

The company is an equal opportunity employer that promotes a drug-free workplace and considers applicants with criminal histories in line with applicable law.

Applicants who need an accommodation while searching for or applying to roles can contact the company's recruiting team, and their information stays confidential.

Benefits

• Eligible for performance-based incentive pay, which may include cash bonuses and or long-term incentives, discretionary or non-discretionary depending on the plan.
• Access to a broad set of health, financial and other benefits that support your overall well-being.
• Eligibility depends on full or part-time status, exempt or non-exempt status and management level.