Senior Data Analyst

The Asia Data Office is looking for an experienced Senior Data Analyst to join our team to support our regional partners. If you have passion for data and a desire to drive quality data solutions within a data driven culture then read on to learn more about this opportunity!

This role is critical to executing our data strategy by strengthening our Enterprise Data Lake (EDL) capabilities and enabling trusted scalable data products and analytics for regional stakeholders.

We are looking for the right individual who would be interested in the opportunity to support and enhance our data capabilities has strong willingness to learn and build delivery skills through team collaboration desire to drive and execute on our data strategy willing to help mature our delivery practices and is looking for an opportunity to embrace technical operational and team lead responsibilities.

Position Responsibilities:

• Play team lead role for the delivery of data projects for various businesses and functions.

• Lead data modeling activities (conceptual logical and physical) to deliver trusted reusable datasets and semantic models that support reporting and analytics.

• Engage senior stakeholders and ensure alignment on priorities and roadmap.

• Collect business requirements from stakeholders including business owner business user product owner etc.

• Prepare project plan and subsidiary plan (communication training plan etc) and project registers (risk issues actions decisions)

• Direct the day-to-day project activities and manage the team towards project objectives.

• Lead the team to deliver required ETL and other data applications via Cloud-based Enterprise Data Lake (EDL) platform.

• Lead the team to execute data gathering and cleansing to ensure data accuracy and reliability data transformation and integration into suitable format for analysis developing charts/graphs and dashboards to present data insights to stakeholders through compelling narratives supported by visualizations.

• Provide regular updates to senior stakeholders and seek guidance.

• Handle problem resolution and escalate issues/risks to sponsors / steering committee as required.

• Contribute to automation processes for faster deployment.

• Contribute to standardization of testing validation acceptance and monitoring processes for greater user confidence.

• Contribute to establishment of project delivery standards that ensure reusability and scalability.

• Contribute to centralized library of best practices that balances oversight with protection of our data.

Skills and Qualifications

• Proficient written and oral communication skills in the English language including the ability to communicate effectively with senior stakeholders and translate between business and technical users.

• Proficiency in tools such as SQL Power BI Python Spark and Excel for data querying manipulation analysis and visualization.

• Experience with cloud and big data tools such as ADLS Data Factory DataBricks and delivering ETL and data applications on an Enterprise Data Lake (EDL) platform

• Strong expertise in data modeling and schema design for analytics including designing reusable and scalable datasets and semantic models.

• Team lead and delivery leadership experience including stakeholder alignment requirements gathering planning risk/issue management and driving teams toward outcomes.

• Self-sufficient and self-motivated

• Strong analytical and problem solving skills

Education and experience

• Bachelors degree preferably in Statistics Mathematics Computer Science or Data Analytics related courses

• 10 years in one or more of the following

• Data Analyst

• BI Analyst

• Team lead or project management experience

• Experience in insurance and/or financial industry knowledge in health data is a plus

When you join our team:

• Well empower you to learn and grow the career you want.

• Well recognize and support you in a flexible environment where well-being and inclusion are more than just words.

• As part of our global team well support you in shaping the future you want to see.

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