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Job Description – Senior Analytics Consultant

Job Purpose

The Senior Analytics Consultant will apply data and technology to business needs, creating and maintaining valuable business solutions. This person will work directly with business customers and with colleagues to deliver the right solutions.

This is a Full-Time position for an Oklahoma-based company that can be completed in a Fully Remote capacity, though due to client and company needs it is open only to current US Citizens as sponsorship will not be offered.

Job Duties and Responsibilities

  • Listen carefully to needs and issues expressed by clients regarding data and technology.
  • Design analytics and data visualization solutions for business clients.
  • Accurately estimate their hours required to develop solutions.
  • Develop analytics and data visualization solutions.
  • Build new solutions and maintain existing solutions for clients.
  • Rapidly adapt to clients’ changing needs.
  • Communicate with team and client about client needs, proposed solutions, progress on implementations, and issues.
  • Apply problem solving and technical skillset to address clients underlying needs in a value-creating and cost-effective way.
  • Verify the quality of work with automated testing and logical reasoning.
  • Research and develop new tools for Power BI, Fabric, and Machine Learning models.
  • Participate in customer interviews to learn more about specific customer needs.
  • Assist in customer profile, value map, and business model development for new ventures.
  • Mentor and coach other team members to build their skills.
  • Stay abreast of latest technological and marketplace developments related to data technologies offered by Microsoft and other major cloud vendors.
  • Serve in Project Lead role to provide technical architecture for data solutions.
  • Use Agile and Kanban methodologies to effectively use Jira to plan and execute projects.
  • Additional related tasks may be assigned, as needs arise.

Keys to Success within Role

You will know you are succeeding in this role when you can listen carefully to our clients and understand their needs even better than they do. You will accomplish this by asking insightful questions as well as applying your relevant business, personal, and technical experience to design an ideal and value-creating solution.

  • Think proactively to suggest further solutions and improvements for clients to consider.
  • Innovate new solutions to add value to business clients and to team.
  • Continually learn more to become an expert in the core toolset and to keep up to date with latest advancements and changes.
  • Follow internal best practices, and work to update and improve those best practices.
  • Give and receive feedback with honesty and respect.
  • Create new solutions that do not yet exist.
  • Be available and productive for 40 hours per week, within set timeframes.
  • Work remotely with reliable, wired internet connection.

 

Preferred Education Level

  • Education or self-taught expertise in Data Engineering, Programming, Computer Science, Programming, or related field.
    • Degree is not required, however commensurate experience in any key discipline is expected.

Preferred Experience Level

  • 5+ years’ hands-on experience applying technology listed below and utilizing data to solve business problems.

 

Required Knowledge, Skills, Abilities

This position will work primarily with the technologies below, listed in order of importance:

  • Microsoft Power BI
  • DAX
  • Microsoft Fabric
  • PowerQuery (M)
  • SQL
  • Excel
  • SQL Server Analysis Services (SSAS)
  • PowerShell
  • API interaction
  • C#
  • Microsoft SQL Server

Recommended Knowledge, Skills, Abilities

  • Jira
  • Other Data Visualization tools like Tableau, Qlik, Looker, etc.
  • T-SQL
  • Snowflake
  • Databricks
  • SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS)
  • Python
  • Microsoft Azure…
    • Storage
    • Logic apps
    • Functions
    • Data Lake
  • Power Automate
  • Power Apps
  • Other databases like Oracle, PostgreSQL, MySQL, DB2, etc.
  • Microsoft Teams
  • Azure Synapse
  • Hadoop
  • Amazon Redshift
  • Experience building financial and accounting data solutions would be a bonus skillset.

To apply

Email your resume and optional cover letter to work@firstlightanalytics.com

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