Senior Data Analyst

Job Description

Hybrid: This means the successful candidate is expected to report to their primary location (Milford, MI) three times per week, at minimum.

Relocation:

This job is not eligible for relocation benefits. Any relocation costs would be the responsibility of the selected candidate.

The Role:

General Motors is seeking highly motivated and qualified candidates for the position of Data Analyst within the Vehicle Mechatronic Embedded Controls (VMEC) Business Analytics team. This team is responsible for both analytics strategy and project-based solutions, with a focus on some of the company’s most critical business areas.

As a VMEC Data Analyst, you will lead the development of analytics solutions from concept through deployment and adoption. This includes gathering requirements, designing and implementing solutions, and driving their integration into business operations. You will create tools, dashboards, applications, and other innovative data solutions that enable data-driven decision-making and operational improvement.

What You’ll do:

• Develop interactive Dash applications, self-service tools, and automated reports to support critical business operations and drive process improvements through insightful visualizations.
• Apply advanced data science and modeling techniques to solve complex business problems and drive strategic decision-making across the organization.
• Build and maintain industrialized data assets while optimizing data pipelines to support advanced analytics and machine learning initiatives.
• Conduct ad hoc statistical analysis on both curated and self-constructed data sets, delivering actionable insights to improve decision-making processes.
• Pull and evaluate data from various sources, ensuring data accuracy and relevance to support strategic business decisions.
• Facilitate data-driven decision-making by delivering clear, concise findings and recommendations to key stakeholders and executive leadership.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to identify analytical needs and proactively design data solutions that support business objectives.
• Ensure the scalability, integrity, and performance of data systems, enabling robust data governance and high-quality reporting across the organization

Additional Job Description

Your Skills & Abilities (Required Qualifications)

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Information Technology, Math, or Physics.
• 5+ years of relevant experience utilizing data analysis methods and success solving complex problems.
• 2+ years of experience working with vehicle telematics data.
• Proficiency using relevant tools: Power BI, Spark, Hive, Hadoop, dBeaver, Dash Plotly, Microsoft Azure platform, Databricks platform.
• Strong/Proficient coding skills in SQL and Python.
• Strong organizational and leadership skills.
• Capable of converting ambiguous problem statements into concrete project requirements. 
• Passion for data driven results and customer initiatives. 
• Solid analytical/problem solving skills with capability to identify solutions to unusual and complex problems.

What Will Give You A Competitive Edge (Preferred Skills)

• Master’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Information Technology, Math, or Physics.
• 8+ years of experience utilizing data analysis methods and success solving complex problems.
• Embedded controls experience.
• Experience with AI/ML modeling techniques and methods being developed and applied across industry.

Sponsorship:

GM DOES NOT PROVIDE IMMIGRATION-RELATED SPONSORSHIP FOR THIS ROLE. DO NOT APPLY FOR THIS ROLE IF YOU WILL NEED GM IMMIGRATION SPONSORSHIP (e.g., H-1B, TN, STEM OPT, etc.) NOW OR IN THE FUTURE.

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