Senior, Data Analyst

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About the Team/Position

One word:  Impact

Our 2.2 million associates truly make the difference. Our Associate Analytics team empowers our associates around the world to do more for our customers by improving people decisions through science, insight, and automation. We influence Walmart’s people policies; test & evaluate program and intervention effectiveness; create scaled AI/ML people solutions; and deliver insights that improve our associates’ experience. Our team has recently expanded scope so we’re looking to grow quickly--come build with us!

The Senior Data Analyst is responsible for supporting the delivery of modern, scaled, self-service solutions that empower our internal customers to make data-driven decisions. Senior Data Analysts are subject matter experts in data availability and data readiness who manage a large inventory of data sets throughout the data lifecycle, including: maintaining and prioritizing backlog; sprint planning; requirement gathering; user testing; and production deployments. The Senior Data Analyst partners with the Advanced Reporting developers and product managers to ensure the required data is provided according to product requirements and certified in meeting the data quality thresholds deriving appropriate value for our customers from our BI and Data Analytics offerings.

You’ll sweep us off our feet if…

• You have experience in People Analytics, enhancing employee experience for large populations.
• You have 3-4 years’ experience in data governance and stewardship, knowledgeable about compliance and data privacy regulations such as CCPA and GDPR.
• You feel comfortable leading data literacy sessions educating users on safeguarding personal data from unauthorized access and breaches. Enabling business data owners with knowledge of data sharing agreements and how their data is being used.
• You have experience monitoring and resolving data governance-related issues and track key performance indicators (KPIs) to measure effectiveness.
• You have a good understanding of application access permissions, row level security (RLS), object level security (OLS).
• You have experience monitoring and resolving data governance-related issues and track key performance indicators (KPIs) to measure effectiveness.
• You have experience managing data catalog and data quality tools, ensuring all data assets are properly classified and accessible.
• You possess strong documentation skills, documenting our data management processes to provide clear steps in performing the recurring data activities.
• You are detail oriented with problem solving skills, looking beyond the surface of data issues to discover the root cause of a data discrepancy.

You’ll make an impact by…

• Data Source Identification: Supporting the understanding of the priority order of requirements and service level agreements. Helping identify the most suitable source for data that is fit for purpose. Performing initial data quality checks on extracted data.
• Data Strategy: Understanding, articulating, and applying principles of the defined strategy to routine business problems that involve a single function.
• Understanding Business Context: Requires knowledge of Industry and environmental factors; Common business vernacular; Business practices across two or more domains such as product, finance, marketing, sales, technology, business systems, and human resources and in-depth knowledge of related practices; Directly relevant business metrics and business areas. To Provide recommendations to business stakeholders to solve complex business issues. Develop business cases for projects with a