Sr. People Analytics Analyst

Company Description

LinkedIn is the world’s largest professional network, built to create economic opportunity for every member of the global workforce. Our products help people make powerful connections, discover exciting opportunities, build necessary skills, and gain valuable insights every day. We’re also committed to providing transformational opportunities for our own employees by investing in their growth. We aspire to create a culture that’s built on trust, care, inclusion, and fun – where everyone can succeed.

Join us to transform the way the world works.

Job Description

This role can be based in Mountain View. 

At LinkedIn, we trust each other to do our best work where it works best for us and our teams. This role offers a hybrid work option, meaning you can both work from home and commute to a LinkedIn office, depending on what’s best for you and when it is important for your team to be together. 

We are looking for a Senior Analyst to join our Global Talent Organization (GTO) with a focus on Data Governance. People Analytics analyzes current and prospective employee data to enable agility through better, faster talent decisions. This is a full-time role. 

This role requires a collaborative, innovative individual who can operationalize strategic vision provided by leadership teams. Strengthening the Talent data through strong data governance principles combined with HR business acumen is a must have quality. This position is part of People Analytics team and will act as a major voice of the Data Governance team, partnering with our technology organization and functional stakeholders to expand and execute enterprise-wide data governance program. This position will also be required to have hand on experience with prior data governance implementation experience, taxonomy and master data management while partnering with our technology organization to implement the next generation of data tools with modern cloud-based technology. 

This role will also lead multiple transformation initiatives and will ensure that data management related applications are fit for purposes for the growing needs of the People business. This individual will be accountable for assuring that our data assets are healthy, trusted, accessible and understood, and are used in a meaningful, consistent, and compliant manner to fuel LinkedIn people strategy. The candidate is expected to be strong in MSBI technology stack, profisee or any related MDM tool implementation experience. 

Responsibilities 

• Collaborate with functional teams, and legal/privacy to document and maintain data policies and standards that enable use-cases and ensure legal/ethical compliance. 

• Support data stewards to maintain organization’s people data management, insights production, and ensure monitoring, measurement, and compliance across the organization. 

• Work with senior leaders, global technology execution teams and business functions, to design solutions that sustainably drive data standardization, insights enablement, and high-quality data analytics lifecycle. 

• Strong in technical capabilities and knowledge on databases, ETL tools, cloud computing and reporting tools.  

• Knowledge on statistical/ mathematical models that can be used for data profiling. 

• Establish and enhance data governance knowledge management capabilities (i.e. glossary tools, training, communications) 

• Ability to work with databases, semantic layers, and reports. High proficiency in understanding data at source, ability to develop SQL queries, DAX queries that will represent metrics on the semantic layer. 

• Work with data scientists to capture data requirements, write queries to translate requirements into results and liaison with development team for solutions build. 

• Extensive documentation experience in capturing security requirements and maintaining an enterprise die security playbook with information on access to data solutions. 

• Ability to build metrics in SSAS (DAX queries), prior experience in building reports using Power BI, SSRS. 

• Prior experience working extensively with PowerPivot and power queries in excel. 

• Worked in agile project management framework – SCRUM, Kanban etc., 

• Worked on implementing/ exposure to MDM tools used for data enrichment etc., will be a plus. 

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications 

• BA/BS degree in related field 

• 3+ years of experience in data strategy and governance 

Preferred Qualifications 

• 8+ years IT experience.  

• High proficiency in T-SQL and Microsoft BI tools