Data Systems Analyst

Stride K12 • Lansing, MI

419d • $78,336 - $191,490

About The Position

The Data Systems Analyst plays a crucial role in bridging the gap between business needs and technical data solutions. This position involves collaborating with business stakeholders to document clear and actionable data requirements, ensuring that data solutions align with business processes. The analyst will work closely with technical teams to translate business needs into data specifications, supporting the development and validation of data solutions.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Data Analytics, Computer Science, Mathematics, Statistics or a related field, or equivalent training.
• Three (3) years of relevant professional experience in data analysis, business intelligence, process engineering, data modeling, and/or data management OR equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Demonstrated ability to translate unstructured requests into structured, detailed, and actionable requirement documentation.
• Demonstrated success in working collaboratively with diverse stakeholders across both business and technical backgrounds.
• Proficiency in querying, exploring, and managing data using SQL.
• Familiarity with various data storage types (e.g. relational, graph, object storage, data warehouses), ETL pipelines, data modeling, and data transformations.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Proficiency in the Microsoft Office Suite (Excel, Word, PowerPoint and SharePoint).
• Ability to travel up to 10% of the time.

Nice To Haves

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Data Analytics, Computer Science, Mathematics, Statistics or a related field, or equivalent training.
• Experience in K12 education as a teacher or researcher or data personnel.
• Demonstrated experience with agile development and/or the software development lifecycle to build end-to-end products to drive business outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate closely with core business owners of systems and business functions to capture data-related requirements and processes.
• Maintain clear and actionable business use-cases and the data requirements to meet these use-cases including data schema and field-level definitions and rules.
• Support technical designers of data solutions (Data Architects, Data Engineers, etc.) in understanding and clarifying the nuances of data requirements from business stakeholders.
• Collaborate with engineers to ensure test cases (unit tests, integration tests, end-to-end tests) demonstrate business use-case requirements are met.
• Support business stakeholders through user acceptance testing to validate data solutions.

Benefits

• Salary range of $78,336.00 to $191,490.00 based on education, experience, and qualifications.
• Eligible employees may receive a bonus.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level
• Industry: Educational Services
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree