Data Analyst

Job Description

Christensen Farms is seeking a highly skilled Data Analyst to join our Decision Science team. As a key member of the team, you will play a crucial role in helping grow and modernize our analytics services. Your primary responsibility will be to ensure accuracy in decision science and reporting, as well as collecting, managing, and converting raw data into actionable information that can be interpreted by the business.

Key Responsibilities

• Collaborate with domain experts, Business Analysts, and Financial Analysts to define data requirements for specific business processes.
• Collect data from various sources, build recommendations for Data Engineering team members to implement automated pipelines, ETLs, and ELTs.
• Ensure data accuracy, consistency, and integrity throughout the data analysis process.
• Identify and resolve data quality issues.
• Perform core SQL Server database administration tasks, including account administration, system health and performance, troubleshooting, and real-time problem resolution.
• Support and establish reports, dashboards, and visualizations using Power BI.
• Provide 2nd-level employee support for decision science services.
• Troubleshoot, identify issues, and remediate data performance issues that come with developing, querying, and combining large data sets from various sources.
• Work closely with application and technical teams to ensure that current and future services meet data architecture requirements.
• Collaborate with various business users to understand data definitions, analytics use cases, and assist in building data governance and detailed data requirements.
• Responsible for executing simultaneous project activities that require innovative problem-solving.
• Research tools, disciplines, and industry trends and recommend improvements for team or company consideration.

Requirements

• Minimum formal education: Associates/bachelor's degree in data and analytics or an IT-related discipline or 4+ years of equivalent work experience.
• 2 or more years of experience in a corporate IT team environment.
• Exceptional technical skills required, including cloud-based tools (Power BI, Data Factory, Databricks, Snowflake, Excel, database management, etc.).
• 2-3+ years of programming/scripting experience (SQL and/or Python) and working knowledge of the software development life cycle.
• 2+ years of experience engineering within a data warehouse or related experience with dimensional data modeling.
• Clear, concise, and precise written and verbal communication skills to effectively communicate with people of various backgrounds, including non-technical audiences.
• Ability to multi-task and prioritize objectives, anticipate situations, and take quick action.
• Computer skills required: Working knowledge of Microsoft Office Suite, including Visio.
• Strict adherence to company confidentiality and ethical standards.

Desirable Skills/Qualifications

• Certifications in data architecture (DASCA, TOGAF, etc.) or ITIL.
• Enterprise application experience.
• Cloud technologies (public, private, dedicated, hybrid).
• Experience in Level 2 and/or Level 3 employee support (Freshservice or similar ITSM tool).
• Employee computing devices, including Windows, Android, and iOS.
• Experience working in an agricultural business, particularly the swine industry.

Reports to

Information Services Manager

Management Scope & Level of Responsibility

Contributor: Position without managerial responsibility

Supervision of Others

Direct Reports: None

Indirect Reports: None

Physical Requirements

Climbing, bending, kneeling, overhead reaching, standing, sitting, walking, pushing, and pulling.

Sedentary lifting: lifting up to 10 pounds occasionally and frequently lifting small tools or items.

Hearing: perceiving the nature of sounds at normal speaking levels with or without correction.

Motions of the wrists, hands, and/or fingers (i.e., typing, grasping, or gripping).

Christensen Farms is an equal opportunity employer. It is our policy to select the most qualified person for each position in the organization. No employee of CF will discriminate against any applicant for employment or a fellow employee because of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, citizenship status, genetic information, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, military status, veteran status, or any other prohibited basis under applicable local, state, or federal law.

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