Senior Data Analyst - Brisbane - Contract

The Role

As a Senior Data Analyst, you will work closely with the Information Architects, Information owners, Data stewards, Project Managers and our key business and IT stakeholders to elicit, analyse, validate, specify and verify various data and information sets to identify trends and improve specific data & Information components that support the IG Information Governance standards and the outcomes of the project.

We are looking for a Data Analyst who will have the ability to solicit the correct data and turn this into information and insight that support the outcomes of our business.

Your strong analytical skills will enable you to critically evaluate the information gathered from multiple sources, reconcile conflicts, decompose high level information into details, abstract up from the low-level information to a more general understandings, distinguish presented user requirements from the underlying true needs and distinguish solution ides from those requirements.

Responsibilities

• Work with the relevant stakeholders to determine key information/data requirements.
• Elicit information and data requirements using interview, document analysis, storyboards, surveys, site visits, task and workflow analysis.
• Lead the analysis work required for data remediation
• Provide guidance to other subordinates on improving data quality and best way for remediation
• Option analysis, “As Is” analysis and recommendation of “To be” solution
• Identifying patterns and trends in data sets
• Develop data standards
• Develop quality business rules and continuous improvement plan
• Develop high level design document
• Collecting, interpreting and analyse large data set
• Perform data remediation activity

Is This You?

• 5+ years’ experience working as a Data Analyst or in a Business Analysis role relating specifically to data analysis, remediation or improvements or related role requiring strong data analytical skills.
• Experience in data quality assessment, data models and reporting packages
• Ability to analyse existing tools and data bases and provide recommendations.
• Demonstrated experience in handling large data sets and relational databases.
• Strong understanding of conceptual data models, information standards and metadata standards.
• Strong interviewing and questioning skills to talk with the individuals and groups about their needs and ask the right questions to surface essential requirements information.
• Proficiency in SQL, Excel, etc
• Demonstrate the ability to capture, and document business functional and non-functional requirements, coordinate and own system change requests from conception to implementation
• Resilience to deliver outcomes quickly, within constrained timeframes, across a variety of industries and sectors
• Ability to understand and apply strategic concepts and high-level business objectives in analysis work
• The ability to Investigate, evaluate, interpret and provide analytics to facilitate the development of identifying key data and information gaps