Responsibilities:
- Lead the development and delivery of functional and ministry-specific analytics to support evidence-based decision-making and produce actionable insights.
- Work closely with client groups to assess current data analytics and reporting capabilities, gather future-state requirements and identify further opportunities for improvement.
- Facilitate decision-making and manage client expectations.
- Own the execution of analytics initiatives including end-to-end reporting and data set delivery.
- Participate in documentation, development, testing
- Work with functional area experts, Data Architects and ETL Developers and stakeholders to understand complex business issues and develop appropriate Business Intelligence solutions.
- Design methods to capture, structure, transform and process data to be used to generate models.
- Build data models that provide information which is accurate, easy to understand and unbiased.
- Communicate complex quantitative analysis in a clear and precise manner, providing useful visuals and summaries.
- Provide interpretation, advice, and expertise to client groups and other stakeholders, including direction on how to transform analytics into actionable information and proactive insights that support decision making.
- Excellent analytical, problem-solving and decision-making skills, verbal and written communication skills, interpersonal skills and teamwork skills
- Outstanding consulting and relationship management skills, with proven ability to elicit requirements, develop/consult on options and solutions, and provide effective guidance
- Adept at communicating to both technical and non-technical audiences
- Experience with a range of analytical methods, techniques and tools such as, but not limited to: statistical analysis and modelling, data mining, machine learning and algorithms, natural language processing, and other related disciplines at the specified experience level
- Ability to manipulate and analyze complex, high-volume data from structured and unstructured sources
- Experience developing data extraction, transformation, and load functionality for large relational and multi-dimensional data stores
- Experience designing high quality interfaces to present information in a meaningful way to end users
- Broad understanding of data management, financial and business analysis, database architecture, and information visualization
- Proficiency in query languages, experience constructing complex query statements and mathematics and statistics
- Experience in one or more programming or scripting languages
- Strong investigative and logic skills.
- Awareness of emerging Business Intelligence trends and directions
- Experience with analytical software such as R,
- Proficiency with desktop analysis software including Microsoft Excel, Access, VBA, Power BI
- Assisting with the transformation/cleaning of data from a legacy database into a new data warehouse
- Determine appropriate data structure for remaining relevant legacy data
- Develop mapping and transformation rules to align the two databases
- Create data dictionary for new data
- Develop connections with multiple other government databases and develop system to maintain the connection so that it does not go out of date
- Supporting Power BI visualization and report building
- Develop and test any automated data validation tools deemed necessary
Database Skills - 70%:
- Experience with one or more database technologies, designing data architecture for new databases and dimensional data models
- Proficiency with SQL and experience writing SQL scripts
- Experience in monitoring and enforcing database rules, cleaning, transforming and joining data, creating and applying data standards
- Subject matter expert in database design of data warehouse or data marts.
- Experience in developing documentation on data standardization and requirements
- Demonstrated consulting and relationship management skills, with proven ability to elicit requirements, develop/consult on options and solutions, and provide effective guidance.
- Demonstrated team player with a track record for meeting deadlines and strong verbal and written communication skills; with both technical and non-technical audiences.
- Previous public sector experience in an organization of equivalent size and complexity to the Government.