Senior Data Analyst

Job Title: Senior Data Analyst

Location: Brooklyn, NY (Hybrid)
Duration: Long Term

Recent State Experience is mandatory – Submit only local profiles who can attend an in-person interview.

Scope of Services

The Senior Data Analyst shall provide Client's Data Management team with technical expertise for the completion of Data Profiling/Cleansing, Conversion/Migration and Validation efforts as part of the Legacy Replacement initiative, as well as client's ongoing process improvement programs.

Responsibilities

• Participate in identification, inventory, and classification of client critical data.
• Work with data SMEs to document data quality rules and definitions.
• Actively participate in optimization and performance tuning of existing ETL and SQL processes.
• Extract business rules from the existing Legacy code and create Source-to-Target mappings.
• Transform business rules and data quality rules into ETL and/or SQL technical specifications.
• Develop complex SQL data validations based on STTMs and target Data Models.
• Provide technical and analytical support to client data integrity and quality initiatives.
• Collaborate with SMEs and technical leads in identifying and addressing data quality gaps.
• Work with IT partners to remediate identified gaps using both manual and automated solutions.
• Support processes that proactively detect, correct, and prevent invalid data values.
• Defect handling and problem resolution.

Mandatory Skills/Experience

• Minimum of five (5) years of source-to-target data mapping experience in mixed Mainframe and Relational Database environments.
• Experience creating data dictionary documentation with business terms, valid values, and definitions.
• Experience converting/migrating VSAM data to relational/dimensional SQL distributed databases.
• Minimum of three (3) years of recent experience developing applications using IBM DataStage ETL.
• Experience extracting field references and calculated data from COBOL programs.
• Experience with BMC Control-M workload automation software.
• Experience with GIT version control software.
• Minimum of three (3) years of recent experience with Pension Administration systems.

Technical Ability (Mandatory)

• Strong SQL knowledge working with complex queries and stored procedures.
• Proficiency in SSRS reports development.
• Strong analytical skills demonstrated by the ability to receive and analyze requirements and propose a suitable solution that adheres to the team's methodology.
• Ability to work in multiple environments: IBM Mainframe, Windows Server, and SQL Server.
• Proficiency in mainframe applications encompassing COBOL, CICS, and DB2.
• Understanding of data structures and their relationship to ETL applications.
• Ability to develop complex SQL data validations based on STTMs and target Data Models.
• Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and information-gathering skills along with fundamental technical troubleshooting abilities.

Desirable Skills/Experience

• Experience extracting business rules from the existing legacy code.
• Experience with Data Quality/Profiling tools.
• Experience with Data Warehouses/Data Marts.
• Experience with SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS).
• Prior experience working in a pension system, preferably New York State or New York City pension system.