Lead Business Intelligence Analyst

Discover. A brighter future.

With us, you’ll do meaningful work from Day 1. Our collaborative culture is built on three core behaviors: We Play to Win, We Get Better Every Day & We Succeed Together. And we mean it — we want you to grow and make a difference at one of the world's leading digital banking and payments companies. We value what makes you unique so that you have an opportunity to shine.

Come build your future, while being the reason millions of people find a brighter financial future with Discover.

Job Description:

What You’ll Do

• Responsible for designing, developing and supporting dashboard, analytic and reporting solutions for a wide variety of business intelligence data sets in support of assigned business partners. Directly accountable for designing and building complex queries into enterprise data stores to retrieve information in a manner that allows current and future BI tools to express the data in meaningful ways and answer the analytic questions being asked by their customers.

• Actively manages and escalates risk and customer-impacting issues within the day-to-day role to management.

How You’ll Do It

• Develops creative and innovative ways to answer critical business questions by augmenting existing data assets or driving the development of new ones. Leverages technical expertise and data story-telling abilities to transform the business requirements into impactful and efficient analytic solutions leveraging the full power of all enterprise Business Intelligence tools available. 

• Functions as a BI technical consultant, partnering with business users to gather, document and develop data and information requirements to answer the business questions being asked.  Researches and identifies the correct enterprise data stores to use as the source of truth for the information, working in close partnership with the technology and business teams. 

• Ensures all assigned projects adhere to the enterprise design standards for visual design, data governance and performance, including cross validation of source data, development of routine data quality checks, and performance testing under different enterprise load conditions.

• Guides the User Acceptance testing, project documentation and deployment processes for all assigned BI projects, including regular reoccurring project updates on completion status to project sponsors.

• Provide all facets of support for all deployed Business Intelligence projects, identifies root cause of issues and actively participates in guiding resolution.

Qualifications You’ll Need
The Basics

• Bachelors degree in Information Technology, Mathematics, Statistics, Analytics, Business Administration and Management

• 6+ years of experience in Data Analytics and Query Design in a quantitatively driven industry or related

Physical and Cognitive Requirements
The physical requirements described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this position. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable a qualified individual with disabilities to perform the essential functions of the position as required by federal, state, and local laws:

• Primarily remain in a stationary position.

• No required movement about the work environment to complete the major responsibilities of the job.

• Primarily performed indoors in an office setting.

• Ability to operate office equipment such as but not limited to computer, telephone, printer, and calculator.

• Ability to communicate verbally.; Ability to communicate in written form.

Bonus Points If You Have

• 2+ years of hands on experience developing optimized, complex SQL queries across large volumes of data in both relational and multi-dimensional data sources such as Teradata, Hadoop, Amazon Redshift, or Hyperion Essbase or related

• 2+ years of hands on experience utilizing industry leading Business Intelligence Tools such as Tableau, Power BI or Qlikview to develop robust, interactive and visually impactful dashboards or related

Discover will not sponsor or transfer employment work visas for this position. Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis.

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Application Deadline:

The application window for this position is anticipated to close on Dec-16-2024. We encourage you to apply as soon as possible. The