Sr Analyst, Data Engineering

Title: Sr. Analyst, Data Engineering
Location: Remote - Canada
Reports to: Managing Director - Product Management
The Role
JD Power is looking for a senior data engineering analyst with excellent quantitative and analytical skills. Our ideal candidates are determined to use their skills to combine multiple data sources together to solve complex client questions around vehicle valuations, market readiness, and customer purchase decisions. You’ll work hands on with quantitative data to help create new capabilities, and to improve and maintain existing capabilities.
The Impact
We make data products that solve problems for the auto industry. Every senior data analyst will work on projects that go into production and directly impact new and existing products.
About The Job

• Generate valuable insights from our data and package them into insightful client-friendly interpretations
• Engineer robust and extensible data pipelines for new and existing products
• Design, troubleshoot, and execute repeatable data processes, in which you’re finding bottlenecks and ways to become incrementally more efficient
• Collaborate with stakeholders to define data requirements
• Daily immersion in automotive industry data
• Interdisciplinary work: you’ll interact with multiple teams across the firm to implement solutions and improve processes. This includes Consulting, New Product Development, Data Engineering, etc.

What We Would Love To See

• An effective cross functional communicator in both written and verbal skills
• Demonstrated exposure to (not expertise in) data analytics, and/or statistical concepts such as: promotion/price, media mix modeling, multivariate regression, logistic regression, time-series modeling, data mining, simulation, optimization, and/or forecasting
• 5-9 years of full-time quantitative analytics professional (non-academic) experience and quantified business impact
• Bachelor’s degree (required) with statistics or mathematical background: Econometrics, Statistics, Operations Research, Quantitative Marketing, Finance, Engineering or similar
• Resilient work ethic
• Expertise in extract, transform, and load (ETL) processes with quantified efficiency and accuracy outcomes. Experience in bringing together data sets across multiple sources, with multiple dimensions and layers of complexity
• Fluency of database software: SQL required
• Experience resolving data issues in creative and effective ways. Acumen and gut instincts to know when to say, “This doesn’t seem reasonable.”
• Fluency in statistical programming software: R or Python preferred
• Independent professional who can take a vision and implement with limited instruction
• Ability and willingness to learn in a fast-paced environment

The Career Opportunity
Grow as a senior data analyst as part of a medium sized team. You will pipeline data, deploy them in the cloud, and build monitoring suites.
The Team / The Business
The team is an experienced set of creative thinkers who are uncovering new and emerging consumer dynamics in an industry starting to go through rapid disruption
Our Hiring Manager Says
We want senior data analyst candidates who can monitor, improve, and create data processes independently and with an eye toward continuous improvement. We need the capability to leverage the right data sets efficiently from an impressive set of data assets that is unrivaled in this space.
J.D. Power is a global leader in consumer insights, data, analytics, and advisory services that helps clients drive growth and profitability. The company’s industry benchmarks and reputation for independence and integrity have established it as one of the world’s most well-known and trusted brands.
Truth that Transforms: At J.D. Power, we amplify the voice of the consumer, and help brands improve the value of their products and services. Our capabilities empower everyone in the global commerce ecosystem, enabling better purchase decisions – and better business results. We understand that the customer experience is vital and that simply measuring it is not enough. Our analysts focus on driving results that improve customer loyalty and advocacy. Our success is driven by how much we help companies improve the customer experience. But data is only as powerful as the analysis and insights tied to it—and we put that power in the hands of our clients through our interactive reporting platforms. The data, analytics, insights, best practices, and action plans clients need are available whenever and wherever they need them, to help them make data-driven decisions that will improve their customer experience and drive positive financial results.
J.D. Power’s recruitment efforts are aligned with the company's commitment to provide opportunities rooted in diversity, inclusion, and equality.
Our Vision: To be the leader in providing advanced data solutions that empower industry transformation.
Our Mission: We unite industry leading data and insights with world-class technology to solve our clients’ toughest challenges.
Our Values: We are Truth Finders, Change Makers and Team Driven.
We are dedicated to leveraging comprehensive and equitable practices which contribute to the overall success of the company and its employees. We invite you to learn more about our DE&I efforts.
J.D. Power is an equal opportunity employer and compliant with AODA/ADA legislation. If you require accommodations during the recruitment and selection process, please specify.
To all recruitment agencies: J.D. Power does not accept unsolicited agency resumes and we are not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes.
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