Data Analyst

Data Analyst – Contract – Vienna, VA /Hybrid – $45.00 - $50.33/hr.

The final salary or hourly wage, as applicable, paid to each candidate/applicant for this position is ultimately dependent on a variety of factors, including, but not limited to, the candidate’s/applicant’s qualifications, skills, and level of experience as well as the geographical location of the position.

Applicants must be legally authorized to work in the United States. Sponsorship not available.

Our client is seeking an Data Analyst in Vienna, VA /Hybrid .

ROLE DESCRIPTION

• Work with technology organization and business end-users to understand data and analysis needs and develop technical requirements including data definitions, business rules, and data quality requirements; conduct data UAT, and data accuracy, validation, integrity research

• Ensure compliance with deliverable reporting requirements by performing quality data audits and analysis

• Identify and compile data sets using a variety of tools to help predict, improve, and measure the success of key business-to-business outcomes

• Analyze and resolve complex data quality issues, utilizing advanced data profiling, cleansing, and monitoring techniques to maintain data integrity and reliability

• Develop and implement advanced data cleaning and validation processes, including outlier detection, imputation methods, and anomaly detection, to maintain data integrity and quality

• Clean and organize raw data and generate descriptive statistics in support of business intelligence and data science projects

• Partner with data science teams to maintain statistical models for ongoing and ad hoc review and analysis of data

• Build working relationships with team members and subject matter experts

• Lead small projects and initiatives

SKILLS & REQUIREMENTS

• 4-7 years of experience in data analysis and reporting

• Complete knowledge and understanding of business area/specialization

• Skill in data manipulation and scripting languages such as SQL, Python, or R, as well as advanced data cleaning and preprocessing techniques and tools

• Effective skill with AI tools and techniques, data cleaning, and other analytical techniques required for data usage

• Advanced skill with statistical analysis such as measures of central tendency, normal distribution, variance, standard deviation, basic tests, correlation, and regression techniques

• Advanced skill interpreting, extrapolating and interpolating data for statistical research and modeling

• Knowledge of various data structures and ability to extract data sources (e.g., PySpark, PowerBI)

• Strong understanding of data governance principles and practices

• Bachelor's Degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Computers Science, Engineering, or degrees in similar quantitative fields.

• Advanced SQL + Python/R

• Data cleansing, profiling & validation

• Data quality/integrity troubleshooting

• Statistical analysis & regression/correlation

• Outlier/anomaly detection & imputation

• Data requirements gathering

• Data UAT/testing

• Data governance

• Large/complex datasets

• PySpark & Power BI

• AI tools/techniques

Benefits/Other Compensation

Medical, Dental, Life Insurance, 401K.

Why Hays?

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