Data Analyst

Data Analyst Location: Irving, TX (hybrid remote with occasional in office work) Duration: 3+ months Urgent Backfill Candidates MUST be within driving distance to one of Gartner's following CoE's: Stamford CT, Irving TX or Fort Myers FL for consideration. Anticipated to be 100% Remote but locality to a CoE is critically important. Candidates MUST be able to work EST hours to align with the rest of the team. Please ensure candidates have a Bachelor's Degree and at least 2 years relevant work experience for consideration. What You'll Do: Drive data quality initiatives on improving the accuracy of our client data that's leveraged in critical business throughout the enterprise while curating data insights that will ultimately improve the transparency and value of data across Gartner. Complete analysis interpreting results using a variety of techniques, ranging from simple data aggregation to more complex statistical analysis. Collaborate across business and technical teams, both on site and offshore, to create business deliverables such as Data flow diagrams, Business Requirements, Functional Requirements, User Stories and User Acceptance Tests. Obtain understanding of relevant business area(s), technical options, limitations, costs and risks to communicate tradeoffs and recommend solutions or suggest alternatives to proposed solutions to shape requirements. Independently drive critical data workshops with business and IT stakeholders to develop requirements and execution process while managing dependencies across teams. Review data records/attributes on a periodic basis and to ensure data quality and curate data insights that will ultimately improve the transparency and value of data across Gartner. Ensure quality through adherence to and supporting processes and procedures, including the maintenance of documentation on shared file systems. Review delivery team output to ensure requirements are correctly interpreted; define and execute test cases. Provide support to other business analysts, business process owners and project managers to help drive business initiatives. Skills: What You'll Need: Ideally 4+ years of experience as a Business/Data Analyst; prior experience in working in Data Warehouse, Master Data Management, Analytics environment a plus. Advanced SQL skills required, python skills are a plus. Strong analytical, strategic thinking and problem-solving skills including ability to clearly and concisely gather, interpret, analyze and document Business Process, User and Data Functional requirements in a structured way. Understanding of data analysis tools and techniques is required. Ability to breakdown complex business problems and workflows into meaningful components that are understandable by various levels. Well versed with in utilizing tools such MS Excel, MS Word, Google Suite, MS Visio, Lucid Chart, JIRA, Confluence. Experience with business intelligence and data visualization systems is a plus (Tableau, Power BI). Data governance experience is a strong consideration. Knowledge and experience with Scrum/Agile methodology. Expert level communication with both technical and non-technical personnel, both oral and written. AA2IT