Published: October 11, 2024 – The Data Strategy Analyst drives the implementation of data strategies across the organization, and manages resource capacity and staffing for data projects while prioritizing new product development requests. This role encourages departments to leverage innovative data utilization methods to achieve business objectives and requires a strong understanding of industry practices and competitive landscapes. Additionally, the analyst collaborates with various departments and IT to ensure alignment with overall data strategies, providing strategic support to champion the organization's data agenda.
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1. Data Strategy Analyst, Bright Future Solutions, Austin, TX
Job Summary:
- Develop quantitative and qualitative research to gather current state, including needs, challenges, use cases, etc.
- Apply knowledge, experience, and originality to develop unique propositions backed by analysis
- Explain complex issues simply and intuitively with a willingness to challenge assumptions, communicate limitations, and flag blind spots
- Make cross-functional connections in business processes and data decisions
- Develop and manage relationships with managers and senior analysts across the organization
- Help different business departments to align with strategy framework to advance on key data capabilities
- Ensure alignment of data efforts and initiatives with the overall business and enterprise data strategies
- Assess and inform current and future drivers and business impacts of data technologies and decisions
- Identify enablers and alternatives to data integration methodologies and technologies
- Provide crucial insights and recommendations for improvement on different aspects of data efforts and initiatives (from project prioritization to use cases to product backlog)
- Drive and challenge departments on innovative ways to successfully utilize data and related tools to advance business objectives
- Collaborate with others to develop requirements for data initiatives in alignment with the data strategy and data governance standards
Skills on Resume:
- Research And Analytical Skills (Hard Skills)
- Strategic Thinking (Soft Skills)
- Communication Skills (Soft Skills)
- Relationship Management (Soft Skills)
- Data Integration Methodologies (Hard Skills)
- Problem-Solving Skills (Soft Skills)
- Cross-Functional Collaboration (Soft Skills)
- Data Governance Knowledge (Hard Skills)
2. Data Strategy Analyst, Innovate Analytics, Denver, CO
Job Summary:
- Assist in the development and governance of data and data information strategy
- Work with SEA 04I (and partner organizations) and Data Quality Management personnel to establish data quality management policies, standards, and best practices
- Consider cloud services to achieve security requirements, scalability, and reliability
- Assist in the definition and development of a corporate data analytics strategy
- Assist in the design and deployment of business performance metrics, corporate business metrics automation strategies, and delivery strategies for corporate metrics products
- Assist in the development of descriptive, predictive, and prescriptive analytic standards, while guiding the data analytics and data quality management team members located within the SMDAL.
- Assist in the plan and execution for a means to cross-collaborate between OPNAV, NAVSEA, and Fleet analytics efforts as the Navy Analytics Cell.
- Assist in the evaluation, selection, and implementation of enterprise technology solutions
- Provide expert advice on internal (i.e. project specific) and Navy data security requirements
- Work with senior NAVSEA and Fleet leadership to align business and technology initiatives
- Effectively communicate with senior leadership and stakeholders to advocate for data-driven decisions
- Work with NAVSEA’s academia partners, Navy organic trainers, and internal staff to develop and/or review workforce development curriculum
Skills on Resume:
- Data Governance (Hard Skills)
- Data Quality Management (Hard Skills)
- Cloud Services (Hard Skills)
- Data Analytics Strategy (Hard Skills)
- Performance Metrics Design (Hard Skills)
- Cross-collaboration (Soft Skills)
- Technology Evaluation (Hard Skills)
- Communication Skills (Soft Skills)
3. Data Strategy Analyst, Insightful Data Group, Seattle, WA
Job Summary:
- Collaborates with executive and talent leadership to provide analytical answers to strategic questions about talent processes, including acquisition, retention, advancement, diversity, equity and inclusion.
- Provides action-oriented analyses to ensure leadership is well-informed and able to make thoughtful, data-driven decisions.
- Builds relationships and collaborates with talent leaders and their teams to solve organizational problems by prioritizing work to manage multiple workstreams and high-pressure situations.
- Empower leaders by providing high-quality people data, reporting, analyses and insights.
- Designs and develops data analytics solutions, iteratively builds and prototypes models, dashboards and scorecards to provide insights.
- Manipulates and analyzes large data sets to distill insights from data and connect disparate ideas into cohesive, well-grounded recommendations using creative, structured and analytical thinking.
- Creates effective, realistic, and intuitive reporting solutions.
- Uses analytical reasoning to identify problems and develop hypotheses, often recommending a data product that addresses stakeholder needs.
- Builds models to analyze historical results and predict potential future drivers and detractors of performance-encompassing
- Creates presentations for executive leadership clearly and concisely to enable effective understanding and interpretation of the underlying data.
- Collaborates with relevant talent departments to develop key performance indicators/metrics and create, enhance and/or maintain cyclical reporting.
- Partners with the IT and HRIS groups on the planning, design, and implementation of data sets, metrics, dashboards, scorecards and related solutions on behalf of the talent groups
Skills on Resume:
- Talent Analytics (Hard Skills)
- Data-Driven Decision Making (Soft Skills)
- Relationship Building (Soft Skills)
- Data Reporting and Insights (Hard Skills)
- Data Analytics Solutions (Hard Skills)
- Data Manipulation and Analysis (Hard Skills)
- Problem-Solving (Soft Skills)
- Presentation Skills (Soft Skills)
4. Data Strategy Analyst, Visionary Analytics Corp, Nashville, TN
Job Summary:
- Curate and apply business data and analytics tools to provide strategic analysis of key business initiatives
- Work closely with Business & Technology Solutions teams, as well as various business units to create and maintain data sources, reports, visualizations, and dashboards
- Simultaneously participate in multiple, high-priority analytics projects that are often at varying stages of maturity
- Perform ad hoc analytics for time-sensitive requests
- Present key insights and recommendations to business leadership
- Develops fluency in all data and systems from multiple sources across the firm.
- Responds to ad hoc requests for information, analyses and action planning.
- Ensures data integrity and accuracy in all reporting and analysis.
- Actively participate in analytics community programs, including monthly community meetings and mentoring functional analysts within the business
- Partner with subject matter experts on data architecture, engineering, analytics, visualization, reporting and others to ensure the solution meets the needs of the stakeholders
- Represent business units in enterprise initiatives, championing needs, raising concerns, effectively communicating, and coordinating efforts with others
- Be available as an advisor and consultant to community members who occasionally use the SMDAL space to work on their analytics projects.
- Integrate with the SMPG data analytics, Data Operations Integration Team Lead and Data Analytics Implementation Team Leads on various OPNAV-, NAVSEA-, or Fleet-driven efforts.
Skills on Resume:
- Business Data Analytics (Hard Skills)
- Reporting and Visualization (Hard Skills)
- Project Management (Soft Skills)
- Ad Hoc Analytics (Hard Skills)
- Data Integrity Assurance (Hard Skills)
- Community Engagement (Soft Skills)
- Data Architecture Collaboration (Hard Skills)
- Communication Skills (Soft Skills)
5. Data Strategy Analyst, DataDriven Insights, Charlotte, NC
Job Summary:
- Drives data strategy and delivery for an area of responsibility within/across the organization.
- Keep track of data projects across enterprise and SET departments that will require SET resources or may impact SET
- Design intake process for new product development requests and implement prioritization framework
- Manage resource capacity and coordinate the staffing of data projects with relevant skilled talent from the centralized team and SET departments
- Drives and challenges departments on innovative ways to successfully utilize data and related tools to advance business objectives
- Responsible for knowing how the business works, knowledgeable in current and possible future policies, practices, trends, technology, and information affecting SET’s business and organization, knows the competition and is aware of how strategies and tactics work in the marketplace.
- Partners with departments and IT to ensure alignment of data efforts and initiatives with the overall SET and Enterprise Data Strategies.
- Represent SET on enterprise initiatives, championing needs, raising concerns, effectively communicating, and coordinating efforts with the other SET departments and analysts
- Provide strategic and tactical support to drive and deliver a business-driven data strategy
- Apply a broad knowledge of data concepts and principles to develop strategy framework, approach, and methodology
- Define and gain alignment on future state data strategy success criteria and measures
- Drive partnership and engagement across the organization to contribute to and champion the strategic data agenda
Skills on Resume:
- Data Strategy Development (Hard Skills)
- Project Management (Soft Skills)
- Resource Coordination (Soft Skills)
- Innovative Data Utilization (Soft Skills)
- Business Acumen (Soft Skills)
- Data Alignment (Hard Skills)
- Strategic Support (Soft Skills)
- Data Concepts Knowledge (Hard Skills)