Data Analyst II

Walmart • Hoboken, NJ

4d • $84,000 - $156,000 • Onsite

About The Position

This role focuses on understanding business context, identifying data sources, formulating technical problems, visualizing data, managing data quality, and performing exploratory data analysis. The Data Analyst II will support the development of business cases, drive project delivery, and assist in solving business issues. They will also be responsible for understanding appropriate data sets for model development, promoting data quality awareness, and executing operational data quality management procedures. The role involves applying statistical techniques, exploring data, and analyzing data to identify trends and correlations. The position requires demonstrating up-to-date expertise, building relationships with stakeholders, and modeling compliance with company policies. Core values include respecting individuals, acting with integrity, serving customers, and striving for excellence.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Engineering, Statistics, Economics, Analytics, Mathematics, Arts, Finance or related field OR 2 years' experience in data analysis, data science, statistics, or related field.

Nice To Haves

• Master’s degree in Business, Computer Science, Engineering, Statistics, Economics, Analytics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Information Technology or related field
• Related industry experience (for example, retail, merchandising, healthcare, eCommerce)
• Successful completion of assessments in data analysis and Business Intelligence tools and scripting languages (for example, SQL, Python, Spark, Scala, R, Power BI, or Tableau)

Responsibilities

• Support the development of business cases and recommendations.
• Drive delivery of project activity and tasks assigned by others.
• Support process updates and changes.
• Support under guidance in solving business issues.
• Understand the appropriate data set required to develop simple models by developing initial drafts.
• Support the identification of the most suitable source for data.
• Maintains awareness of data quality.
• Identify possible options to address the business problems within ones discipline through relevant analytical methodologies.
• Demonstrate understanding of use cases and desired outcomes.
• Generate appropriate graphical representations of data and model outcomes.
• Understand customer requirements to design appropriate data representation for multiple data sets.
• Work with User Experience designers and User Interface engineers as required to build front end applications.
• Present to and influence the team and business audience using the appropriate data visualization frameworks and conveys clear messages through business and stakeholder understanding.
• Customize communication style based on stakeholder under guidance and leverage rational arguments.
• Guide and mentor junior associates on story types structures and techniques based on context.
• Promote data quality awareness.
• Profile analyze and assess data quality.
• Test and validate data quality requirements under supervision of others.
• Execute operational Data Quality Management procedures under supervision of others.
• Conduct data cleansing activities to remove data quality defects improve data quality and eliminate unused data under supervision of others.
• Grant user access to data.
• Learn company and regulatory policies on data.
• Learn data governance processes practices policies and guidelines.
• Support identification and application of statistical techniques based on requirements.
• Apply suitable technique under direction from leadership.
• Support data collection and evaluation.
• Explore data using simple tools.
• Execute existing statistical models and explain how they relate to a clients situation.
• Analyze data and computes descriptive statistics that identify trends outliers and correlations.
• Demonstrates uptodate expertise and applies this to the development execution and improvement of action plans by providing expert advice and guidance to others in the application of information and best practices supporting and aligning efforts to meet customer and business needs and building commitment for perspectives and rationales.
• Provides and supports the implementation of business solutions by building relationships and partnerships with key stakeholders identifying business needs determining and carrying out necessary processes and practices monitoring progress and results recognizing and capitalizing on improvement opportunities and adapting to competing demands organizational changes and new responsibilities.
• Models compliance with company policies and procedures and supports company mission values and standards of ethics and integrity by incorporating these into the development and implementation of business plans using the Open Door Policy and demonstrating and assisting others with how to apply these in executing business processes and practices.

Benefits

• Medical coverage
• Vision coverage
• Dental coverage
• 401(k)
• Stock purchase
• Company-paid life insurance
• PTO (including sick leave)
• Parental leave
• Family care leave
• Bereavement
• Jury duty
• Voting leave
• Short-term disability
• Long-term disability
• Company discounts
• Military Leave Pay
• Adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement
• Live Better U education benefit program (for full-time and part-time associates, covers tuition, books, and fees for programs ranging from high school completion to bachelor's degrees, including English Language Learning and short-form certificates)

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level