Overview
Allied Consultants, Inc. is an Austin-based firm which has for 33 years been a premier provider of technical and business professionals to clients in Texas. We are currently seeking an experienced Senior Data Quality Analyst to be a key resource on a technical services team.
Allied Consultants offers its family of consultants excellent rates, a local support staff, and an attractive benefits package which includes medical insurance (Allied shares a percentage of the cost), life insurance, a matching 401(k) plan and a cafeteria plan.
Candidates selected for interview will be required to undergo criminal background checks and may be required to complete a drug screen in accordance with Federal and State Law. Offers of Employment are contingent on a successful background check
Allied Consultants is an equal opportunities employer.
Location of job: Onsite
Responsibilities
Duties and Responsibilities
Essential Functions:
- Expand and continuously refine the data quality program.
- Ensures adherence to the data quality programs and standards.
- Ensures that the data quality corrective action plan is thoroughly documented.
- Promote the importance and awareness of an enterprise data quality program.
- Leverages data management knowledge to define and maintain data quality, reference data, and meta-data processes.
- Participates in the development of data quality rules, thresholds, and standard/quality expectations for data elements that support critical business processes.
- Continuously execute and monitor the Data Quality Lifecycle on a daily basis.
- Profiles data for statistical analysis and assessment of data to document the effectiveness of data quality controls and identifies improvement opportunities.
- Identifies and implements best practices and tools based on the business needs.
- Implement controls to mitigate data quality risks including continuously monitoring data quality results, reports and dashboards.
- Impeccable oral and written communication skills are essential for effectively interacting with data users, managers, and other stakeholders.
- Complies with all applicable agency policies and procedures, including safety and standards of conduct.
- Performs other duties as assigned
Essential Work Behaviors:
- Communicates respectfully and works harmoniously with all co-workers, customers, and vendors.
- Provides exceptional customer service.
- Is flexible; able to work under pressure and able to adapt to change; and able to work on multiple problems and tasks.
- Takes initiative to prevent and solve problems.
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities
- Uses all knowledge, skills, and abilities to apply critical thinking to all aspects of the job. Critical thinking is a process of forming reasoned opinions through observation, information collection, interpretation, analysis, inference, evaluation, and other skills necessary to successfully meet performance standards of the job.
- Strong analytical and product management skills, including a thorough understanding of how to interpret customer business needs and translate them into application and operational requirements.
- Demonstrated problem solving skills in a technical environment
- Strong written and verbal communication skills; Editing and proofing skills for complex and technical documents. Ability to understand and clearly communicate technical information to non-IT personnel
- Strong organizational skills and the ability to prioritize assignments.
- General knowledge of legislature and legislative process.
- Familiarity with HIPAA and other data security and confidentiality requirements.
- Ability to work independently on difficult, complex tasks.
- Ability to use discretion on matters of a confidential or sensitive nature.
- Knowledge of health care claims data.
Professional Expectations:
- Attends all meetings, meets delivery deadlines and is available during client's office hours.
- Logs in and remains on agency Jabber during work hours.
- Attends remote meetings with camera on unless prior arranged for camera off.
- Coordinates leave and vacation with client's lead.
- Must dress appropriately for a business/business casual environment.
- Communicates respectfully and works harmoniously with all co-workers, customers and vendors.
- Provides exceptional customer service.
- Is flexible; able to work under pressure and able to adapt to change; and able to work on multiple problems and tasks.
- Takes initiative to prevent and solve problems.
Qualifications
Minimum (Required):
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, statistics, economics, finance, library science, or related business field
- 3 years experience creating functional and technical documentation, business glossaries, and diagrams, that communicates the desired message to business and technical audiences.
- 3 years experience working with enterprise grade databases - preferably SQL Server and Oracle.
- 3 years experience developing and writing complex SQL scripts/queries-preferably Oracle and SQL Server
- 2 years experience, within the last 5 years, developing data quality rules, thresholds, and standard metrics/quality-expectations for data elements that support critical business processes.
- 2 years experience, within the last 5 years, with an enterprise grade data quality tool such as Alteryx Data Quality, SAS Data Quality, etc.
- 2 years experience, within in the last 5 years, in the Data Quality field developing and implementing best practices and tools based on the business needs.
- Leads and participates in discussions with cross-functional teams.
Preferred (Optional):
- 3 years experience working with complex Excel functions, including but not limited to VLookUp, Macros, Pivot Tables, etc.
- 2 years experience with the Microsoft SQL Server BI Stack (RDMS, SSIS, SSRS)
- Experience or familiarity with Alteryx & Tableau.
- Experience or familiarity with Benefits Administration, Pension Administration, and Payroll oriented data in the PeopleSoft HRMS package or similar package.