Senior Consultant, Data Management (Data Analyst)

Travelers•Hartford, CT

About The Position

At Travelers, we create trusted strategic products and services to unlock the power of our data. We enhance and measure our ability to access, govern, manage, connect and integrate internal and external data assets and ensure our employees understand the value of data and the impacts to our business. You’ll report into our BA/DA Practice and partner closely with key business stakeholders, customers, and cross-functional teams. In this role, you’ll support several core lines of business and systems, including Scheduled Auto, OMNI, Rapid 2, and UPBT. You'll serve as the primary point of contact for the cloud migration process, preparing and facilitating ingestion strategy implementation, and taking part in validation efforts post implementation. Your day-to-day work will include applying your analytical skills to determine business value and facilitating correct requirement identification. You'll conduct requirements elicitation, validation, and analysis meetings with business stakeholders, support testing activities, and engage in Agile ceremonies. You'll synthesize rules and logic to create data transformation rules, understand overall data models, relationships, lineage, and business rules, and perform fairly intricate analysis to find resolutions of business data issues using SQL and related tools. You'll also evaluate organizational methods and supply source-to-target mappings and model specification documents for datasets, ensuring data is handled and managed following enterprise data quality and data management standards. You'll develop business and application domain knowledge for your assigned value stream, aiding your Team Lead/Product Owner with artifacts for strategic discussions, and refining epics and user stories that have clear acceptance criteria. You'll be an excellent coach, guiding, and collaborating with technical counterparts and other Agile team members to ensure that everyone is working together effectively. As a member of our BA/DA Practice, you'll have abundant support and opportunities for professional development, and you'll be expected to contribute to the growth and success of the Practice. We're looking for candidates with Travelers Business Insurance subject matter experience, experience in cloud migration and data analysis, strong problem-solving and communication skills, and a passion for collaboration and teamwork. If this sounds like you, we'd love to hear from you! As a Sr Consultant, Data Management you will work on effective data governance practices to ensure that data is consistent, trustworthy, and doesn't get misused. You will measure accuracy, completeness, consistency, and reliability of data to embody and promote Traveler's data culture values. Consulting with business partners, you will drive the discussion to develop, implement, execute, and document data management, data governance, and metadata policies, standards, and best practices. Leveraging your understanding of the data ecosystem, business process and decision-making, and the data value chain, you will perform moderately complex root cause analysis to improve the quality of data.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree or two years of relevant data and analytics, and/or data management experience.

Nice To Haves

Experience with ETL / Data Integration tools, one or more Data platforms, and Cloud Computing Technologies and related emerging technology.
Experience with one or more of the following Tools and languages – SQL, Teradata, Python, Hive, MicroStrategy, Ab Initio, Messaging, NoSQL.
Ability to understand metadata management, including metadata management, lineage, and cataloging.
Ability to clearly articulate thoughts and ideas and adjust communication based on audience.
Ability to leverage previous experience to consider a variety of alternatives to arrive at a timely, practical, and effective solution to resolve business problems.
Strong collaboration skills with the ability to work with business partners to design and execute priorities and project goals.
Strong organizational and time management skills with the ability to handle shifting priorities.
Demonstrated understanding of overall data models, data relationships, mapping lineage and business rules.
Travelers Business Insurance subject matter experience
Experience in cloud migration and data analysis
Strong problem-solving and communication skills
Passion for collaboration and teamwork

Responsibilities

Assist in the process of managing the availability, usability, integrity security and privacy of the data.
Implement processes to assure data quality for business purposes
Perform moderately complex data profiling and analysis and communicate results in support of data quality processes.
Meet with business customers to develop and maintain business data quality requirements and specifications.
Perform intermediate to advanced metadata documentation, data lineage, data transformation rules in support of key program deliverables.
Work with business customers to ensure appropriate naming definitions and standards are being followed.
Participate in the creation of data models (e.g., entity design and population).
Perform testing and validation of requirements and/or data management capabilities.
Demonstrate and apply detailed understanding of overall data models, data relationships, mapping lineage and business rules.
Create detailed test strategies and test plans.
Perform moderately complex root cause analysis and resolution of business data issues.
Gather information across the enterprise and use tools, processes, and workflows to capture knowledge and maintain its relevance.
Assist with the designing the creation, maintenance and governance of taxonomies and ensures its applicability to content and/or data.
Perform other duties as assigned.