Sr. Data Product Analyst

Sr. Data Product Analyst

Oak Brook, IL – Onsite 3 days per week

This role will work closely with business partners to understand their challenges and develop data-driven solutions that data engineers and architects will build leveraging a broad set of data. As an expert of data products, this role will ensure the business partners can easily understand, access, and utilize data to make better business decisions directly in data tables or via dashboards.

This role will serve as the final authority when the business has questions related to data products. This role is a hybrid between a next-gen Business Intelligence (BI) analyst and an Analytics Engineer with accountability for data products and direct influence on the company's success.

• Act as the data product subject matter expert and collaborate with business leaders, data engineers, data scientists, software engineers, and other developers to deliver the right data to the right people at the right time to make the right decisions
• Collaborate with business partners as the primary liaison within DIG by understanding their data needs, gathering requirements, translating business problems into technical solutions, leading to broad adoption and business impact
• Develop and implement data models, tables, and dashboards that help the business interpret data, derive insights, and make informed decisions
• Design flexible and comprehensive dashboards that enable the business to answer the majority of their questions in minutes/hours instead of days/weeks or building dozens of visualizations for specific needs
• Champion data solutions that can be used by multiple teams across our company
• Evangelize the data products adoption through training materials, webinars, and hands-on training with business analysts through the company
• Conduct independent research on all aspects of a product's experiences and data, provide findings and recommendations on which data are critical to fully understand the customer experience
• Explore and onboard new third-party data sources that can improve business performance
• Recognize, develop, and adopt best practices for building analytical insights including data integrity, testing, design, analysis, validation, documentation, and training to ensure data products are adopted
• Providing mentorship/guidance to other members of the team related to best practices, skill development and creating business value
• Comply with health and safety guidelines and rules; managers should also ensure compliance across their teams
• Contribute to the team effort by accomplishing related results and participating on projects as needed

• 3+ years of experience in analytics or business intelligence in a cloud environment
• Advanced SQL and data modeling skills and a track record building data models and dashboards
• Experience in Power BI preferred, Tableau or Qlik also fine
• Python for analytics using libraries like Pandas Polars or Spark with large data sets
• Able to lead analytics projects and build self service solutions for business users
• Strong communication and stakeholder skills and able to act as the data product expert for the business

• Masters degree or Power BI certification
• Experience with Azure analytics tools such as Synapse Databricks ADLS and streaming tools like Event Hubs or Kafka
• Experience with digital analytics tools such as Google Analytics Firebase Big Query and platforms like Salesforce SAP or Tealium
• Experience with Jira Git or Bitbucket and working in a software or tech environment