Principal Data Analyst

Capital One Capital One · Banking · Plano, TX

This role focuses on data analysis, business intelligence, and data management within the financial services industry. The Principal Data Analyst will leverage analytical and technical skills to innovate, build, and maintain data solutions, translate business needs into technical designs, and ensure data quality and governance. The role requires experience with scripting languages (Python, R, Spark, SQL), data warehouses, unstructured data, and AWS services.

What you'd actually do

  1. Use Open Source/Digital technologies to mine complex, voluminous, and different varieties of data sources and platforms
  2. Build well-managed data solutions, tools, and capabilities to enable self-service frameworks for data consumers
  3. Demonstrate ability to explore and quickly grasp new technologies to progress varied initiatives
  4. Partner with the business to provide consultancy and translate the business needs to design and develop tools, techniques, metrics, and dashboards for insights and data visualization
  5. Drive analysis that provides meaningful insights on business strategies
  6. Drive an understanding and adherence to the principles of data quality management including metadata, lineage, and business definitions
  7. Work collaboratively with appropriate Tech teams to manage security mechanisms and data access governance
  8. Build and execute tools to monitor and report on data quality

Skills

Required

  • Bachelor’s Degree in quantitative field (Statistics, Economics, Operations Research, Analytics, Mathematics, Computer Science or a related quantitative field) plus at least 5 years of experience performing data analytics, or, a Master’s Degree plus at least 3 years performing data analytics
  • At least 3 years of experience working with at least one scripting language
  • At least 3 years of experience utilizing a business intelligence visualization tool
  • At least 3 years of experience in querying, analyzing and working with data languages and platforms

Nice to have

  • Master’s Degree in a Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics discipline
  • At least 4 years of experience coding in Python, R, Spark, or SQL
  • At least 4 years of experience working within process management and improvement methodologies – Agile, Lean, Six Sigma, etc.
  • At least 2 years of experience utilizing and developing within AWS services
  • At least 2 years of experience delivering Data Governance and Data Quality Management concepts and practices within the financial services industry

What the JD emphasized

  • Degree specialized in a Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics discipline
  • Scripting experience in (Python, R, Spark, and SQL)
  • Strong desire and experience with data in various forms (data warehouses/SQL, unstructured data)
  • Experience utilizing and developing within AWS services
  • performing data analytics
  • coding in Python, R, Spark, or SQL
  • delivering Data Governance and Data Quality Management concepts and practices within the financial services industry