Staff Data Analyst

Job Title:
Staff Data Analyst
Location:
TX – Dallas/Irving
What youll do:
The Staff Data Analyst is a catalyst for driving Enterprise Data & Analytics solutions, specifically the data solutions required for Regulatory Reporting including Large Financial Institution requirements. This person is accountable to ensure the alignment of data requirements between business and technology teams by working alongside business teams to understand business process and data flows. The Staff Data Analyst documents results of data profiling to facilitate decision making with executive and senior business data owners. Additionally, this person is required to provide expertise in analytics and visualization as it relates to Western Alliance Banks enterprise data warehouse and Regulatory Reporting Analytics Data Store.
In this position, the Staff Data Analyst is hands-on in developing and publishing analysis artifacts as well as is a mentor to other analysts in the Team. The Staff Data Analyst will contribute to or provide leadership oversight to data solutions in the following three areas:
Implementing data quality management, including the development of the data quality rules for critical data elements based on the selected data quality dimensions and designing the data quality results database, dashboard, integration with our business glossary, and the automation of the process.
Implementing enterprise data warehouse and analytics data store solutions, including the analysis for source systems, source to target mapping, and built-in data quality.
Assist with Data Governance, including the data profiling for source systems, critical data element identification, and business glossary management.
Assist with ad hoc business inquiries by extracting the data from primary and secondary sources using SQL queries and/or PowerBI dashboards.
This exciting opportunity requires the best of your data analysis, problem solving and collaboration skills. The Staff Data Analyst will contribute to the development of cross-business unit data solutions that are leveraged to implement and enhance our regulatory reporting capabilities.
The ideal candidate has strong business and technical analysis experience, a growth mindset, is outcome-focused, and fosters teamwork.
This position is ONSITE ONLY located in either Phoenix, AZ, Dallas, TX, or Columbus, OH.
What we are looking for:
Partner with the Data Product Manager, Data Architects, and Data Engineering Manager to ensure data analysis is addressed in the data product development lifecycle for Regulatory Reporting Solutions.
Develop, implement, and support the processes and best practices for data exploration, data profiling, data quality and data mapping required for the implementation of the Western Alliance Bank Regulatory Reporting Solutions.
Define source to target mapping for the data transformations required in the end-to-end Regulatory Reporting data solutions.
Collaborate with business data owners to execute data profiling and source data analysis for source systems needed for Regulatory Reporting.
Participate in data governance activities by partnering with the Enterprise Data Stewards and Business Data Governance.
Develop and manage the data lineage, business rules (data quality, cleansing, transformation rules, etc.), reference data, and mapping documents across the enterprise in the Metadata Management Tool.
Apply data analysis skills to the data quality/data governance process and/or to the data flows required to engineer the enterprise data warehouse and/or analytics data stores.
Prepare analysis findings and communicate to both business and technical stakeholders.
Create data visualizations using Power BI to explain data analysis recommendations.
What you need to have:
Bachelors degree in engineering, MIS, or Data & Analytics or equivalent experience.
6 years experience with da