Business Analyst
Remote - Canada - EST
Data Platforms & Engineering – Data Engineering /
Full Time /
Remote
Business Analyst
Canada |Remote | Work from Home | #LI-Remote
Why You?
The Business Analyst is a key member of the Data Platforms and Engineering team enabling the analysis of data, presentation of results, organization of requirements and organizational priorities. The role supports internal and customer projects by gathering requirements, building dashboards, creating financial models and leading the creation of impactful assets to use in customer conversations.
What will you be doing?
- Working directly with Pythian’s customers and implementation team, taking data and interpreting interactions between datasets understand their analytical needs, including identifying critical metrics etc
- Using your data analytics skills to gather data from multiple sources and identify user requests from real needs
- Documenting business needs and requirements with a diverse group of stakeholders and using data to create business use cases
- Produce summary data validation reports
- Analyze information needs and functional requirements
- Define concepts with users and Project Managers
- Analyze usability and performance needs
- Use analytical skills to anticipate client needs
- Work with business teams to use analytical and problem-solving skills to deliver actionable insights to relevant decision makers
- Develop rich interactive visualizations integrating various reporting components from multiple data sources
- Use SQL, Tableau and other technologies to pull data from different backend systems and product meaningful information and visualizations
- Take complicated problems and build simple frameworks
- Work directly with clients to gather requirements, provide status updates, and build good relationships and rapport
- Ensuring consistency of data sources across multiple sources
What do we need from you?
- This is a “wish list” If you are interested in this role but not sure if your skills and experience are exactly what we’re looking for, please do apply, we’d love to hear from you! There will be plenty of opportunities to learn new skills and contribute to the Team and Customer's needs and grow with Pythian. While we realize you might not have everything to be a successful candidate for the Business Analyst job you will likely have skills such as;
- A minimum of 5 years of experience as a customer-focused Business Analyst, preferably with a focus on data and analytics in a consulting environment
- Experience with one or more of the major public clouds- Azure/GCP/AWS
- Strong analytical skills, including the ability to mine data to draw meaningful conclusions
- Strong data visualization and data modeling skills; experience with a tool like Tableau, Periscope, Mode or something similar
- Ability to interpret data to help inform business decisions
- Experience in presenting data and analysis at all levels
- Database management tools knowledge
- Reporting and data manipulation experience is a plus.
What do you get in return?
- Love your career: Competitive total rewards package. Blog during work hours; take a day off and volunteer for your favorite charity.
- Love your work/life balance: Flexibly work remotely from your home, there’s no daily travel requirement to an office! All you need is a stable internet connection.
- Love your coworkers: Collaborate with some of the best and brightest in the industry!
- Love your development: Hone your skills or learn new ones with our substantial training allowance; participate in professional development days, attend conferences, become certified, whatever you like!
- Love your workspace: We give you all the equipment you need to work from home including a laptop with your choice of OS, and an annual budget to personalize your work environment!
- Love yourself: Pythian cares about the health and well-being of our team. You will have an annual wellness budget to make yourself a priority (use it on gym memberships, massages, fitness and more). Additionally, you will receive a generous amount of paid vacation and sick days, as well as a day off to volunteer for your favorite charity.
Why Pythian?
Pythian excels at helping businesses use data, analytics, and cloud to transform how they compete and win by delivering advanced on-prem, hybrid, cloud, and multi-cloud solutions. In the early years, we focused on supporting mission-critical operational databases, and as our experts became known for their ability to solve the toughest data challenges, our services grew to meet the rapidly changing needs of our clients; expanding from on-premise to the cloud and from operational to analytics data systems.
A powerful combination of extensive expertise in data and cloud, as well as our ability to keep ahead of the latest bleeding-edge technologies, makes us the perfect partner. We help mid- and large-sized businesses transform to stay ahead in today’s rapidly changing digital economy.
We pride ourselves on our ability to deliver innovative solutions that meet the specific data goals of each client and have built meaningful partnerships with major cloud vendors AWS, Google Cloud, Microsoft, and Oracle.
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Disclaimer
For this job, an equivalent combination of education and experience, which results in a demonstrated ability to apply skills will also be considered.
Pythian is an equal opportunity employer and welcomes applications from people with disabilities.
Accommodations are available on request for candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process.
The successful applicant will need to fulfill the requirements necessary to obtain a background check.
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