Staff analyst

As a Staff Data Analyst, you will specialize in collecting, organizing, and analyzing data from various sources with the purpose of turning numbers into context and recommendations. You will paint a picture of how the business is operating using a variety of data analysis techniques and statistics. You will integrate, transform, and improve volumes of data at the project or company level for streamlined processes, greater efficiencies and more informed decision-making. The Staff Data Analyst shows they have demonstrated exceptional insight into their industry and business as well as leadership among peers.

About the role

• Proactively identify and communicate business opportunities and recommendations using data manipulation, programming, statistics and data visualization

• Use data to support and challenge business solutions with executive leadership or other stakeholders

• Work with leaders to define and implement analytics strategy

• Lead design and validation for all phases of research projects, including presentation of results, guiding iterative improvement

• Maintain relationships and alignment among stakeholders to meet objectives

• Define, gather, and validate project data requirements and evaluate data quality

• Evaluate the quality of organizational data sources

• Create and support business intelligence tools, databases, dashboards, reports or methods

• Document technical design standards for reporting solutions to ensure their accurate development

• Identify, document, and use exploratory data analysis to investigate assumptions

• Identify and analyze relevant, external data to monitor the competitive environment

• Stay informed of industry or business trends that pertain to data

• Mentor teammates on any of the above responsibilities

About you

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in a scientific discipline, mathematics, applied statistics, information technology or a related field

• 6 years of experience or equivalent competency identifying business problems, conducting data experiments, performing statistical analysis and synthesizing findings to guide business decisions

• Expertise leading end-to-end data analysis projects resulting in positive business changes

• Expertise creating data visualizations using modern business intelligence (BI) tools, highlighting insights as relevant

• Expertise with industry-standard statistical analysis tools, such as SAS, R or Python

• Expertise training and mentoring peers

• Expertise creating data sets with advanced SQL or other querying languages and using them to develop business strategies

• Expertise researching data lineage

• Expert knowledge of standard statistical measures, probability theory and both qualitative and quantitative techniques

• Expertise working with data warehouses and/or other data stores

• Experience data mining or using other exploratory techniques

• Expertise working with structured and unstructured data

• Experience building logical and physical data models

• Experience developing standards and processes that increase efficiency and impact

• Deep domain knowledge of multiple business areas

Preferred Qualifications

• Comprehensive knowledge of multiple business areas and their data, including industry or other external sources

• Experience developing business-wide standards and processes that increase efficiency and impact

• Experience with big data, machine learning, or data science

• Conceptual understanding of database management

What you'll get

Our team members fuel our strategy, innovation and growth, so we ensure the health and well-being of not just you, but your family, too! We go above and beyond to give you the support you need on an individual level and offer all sorts of ways to help you live your best life. We are proud to offer eligible team members perks and health benefits that will help you have peace of mind. Simply put: We've got your back. Check out our full list of Benefits and Perks ( .

About us

Rocket Mortgage® was founded in 1985. Today, we're a Detroit-based, publicly traded company with a mission to Help Everyone Home. At Rocket Mortgage, we believe that home is more than the house you live in. Our wide variety of home loan options, tools and resources empower our clients to achieve their homeownership dreams. We're known as experts in the mortgage industry, but we're also innovators - we strive to create the best experiences for our clients from beginning to end. And we're not your typical employer. We're insistently different in how we look at the world and are committed to an inclusive workplace where every voice is heard. Apply today to join a team that offers career growth, amazing benefits and the chance to work with leading industry professionals.

This job description is an outline of the primary responsibilities of this position and may be modified at the discretion of the company at any time. Decisions related to employment are not based on race, color, religion, national origin, sex, physical or mental disability, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, military or veteran status or any other characteristic protected by state or federal law. The company provides reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities in accordance with applicable state and federal laws. Applicants requiring reasonable accommodations in completing the application and/or participating in the application process should contact a member of the Human Resources team, at [email protected] _._