Data Analyst

Smart IMS•Dallas, TX

13d•Hybrid

About The Position

As a Data Analyst, you will support enterprise reporting, analytics, and business intelligence initiatives by maintaining reporting platforms, ensuring data quality, supporting analytics operations, and delivering actionable insights to business stakeholders. The role calls for expertise in SQL, data visualization, dashboard development, data validation, and stakeholder collaboration to support informed business decisions and improve analytics platform reliability. This is a six-month contract role with a hybrid location preference in Dallas, Texas.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in Data Analytics, Statistics, Information Systems, Computer Science, Business Analytics, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.
2+ years of experience in data analysis, business intelligence, reporting, or analytics-related roles.
Strong SQL skills, including complex queries, joins, aggregations, data validation, and troubleshooting.
Experience developing dashboards, reports, and visual analytics solutions.
Hands-on experience with Tableau or comparable BI and reporting platforms.
Strong Microsoft Excel skills, including reporting, data analysis, pivot tables, and data manipulation.
Experience gathering business requirements and working directly with stakeholders.
Experience validating, reconciling, and troubleshooting data quality issues.
Ability to manage multiple priorities and deliverables in a fast-paced environment.
Excellent analytical, communication, problem-solving, and documentation skills.

Nice To Haves

Experience with Power BI and enterprise reporting solutions.
Knowledge of Alteryx for data preparation and workflow automation.
Experience working with BigQuery and large-scale datasets.
Familiarity with Python and analytics automation techniques.
Experience supporting operational, enterprise, or technology-focused reporting environments.
Experience developing executive dashboards, KPI reporting, and management reporting solutions.
Knowledge of Agile methodologies and tools such as Jira.
Understanding of data governance, metric definitions, and reporting standards.
Experience supporting audit, compliance, regulatory, or risk-reporting initiatives.

Responsibilities

Provide operational support for reporting and analytics platforms, ensuring data availability and accuracy.
Develop, maintain, and enhance Tableau and Power BI dashboards, reporting assets, and analytics solutions.
Perform data validation, data quality reviews, reconciliation, and production support activities.
Troubleshoot reporting issues and investigate data discrepancies across multiple systems.
Support database administration activities, user access management, permissions, and service account integrations.
Assist with analytics platform modernization, migration, and process improvement initiatives.
Collaborate with business stakeholders to gather reporting requirements and develop data-driven solutions.
Create documentation, reporting standards, process guides, and knowledge-transfer materials.
Monitor and improve data pipeline reliability, reporting performance, and analytics platform stability.
Support technical debt reduction efforts and implementation of analytics best practices.