Junior Data Systems Analyst

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Job Summary:

Shamrock Trading Corporation is a recognized leader in transportation services, finance, and technology, known for its positive workplace culture. They are seeking a Data Systems Analyst to support and enhance technology solutions related to data source integrations and pipeline projects, collaborating with various teams to ensure project success.

Responsibilities:

• Monitor project progress by tracking activity, coordinating problem resolution, publish progress reports, and recommending actions.

• Define project requirements by identifying project timelines, phases and elements, determining scope, and establishing project expenses.

• Differentiate user requests from the underlying true needs and distinguish solution ideas from requirements.

• Work with business owners to convert high-level business and user requirements into functional requirements and prioritize requirements.

• Manage changes to baseline requirements through effective application of change control processes and tools and manage system enhancement requests.

• Implement appropriate mitigation strategies that may involve compromises with respect to scope and schedule.

• Prepares technical reports by collecting, analyzing, and summarizing information and trends.

• Create workaround procedures when standard procedures have failed and ensure issues are resolved in a timely fashion.

• Develop Jira stories sub-tasks and define acceptance criteria.

• Create and use entity relationship diagrams and process flow diagrams.

• Work closely with data architecture, lead data engineer, and principal data engineer to develop and document project technical requirements and architectural processes.

• Write project requirements documents.

• Work closely with enterprise project management teams, Data Services, and Data/ML engineers on a daily basis.

Qualifications:

Required:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience.

• Excellent verbal and written technical communication skills.

• Demonstrated ability and willingness to learn new skills.

• Strong analytical, innovative and problem-solving skills.

• Minimum 2 years experience with Data Engineering - related to ETL, Relational Data, Non-Relational Data, SFTPs, Databases, Data Lakes, Reporting (PBI or equivalent), and data integration projects.

• Ability to understand business requirements and translate them into technical steps and requirements.

• Strong understanding of Jira and effectively use for issue tracking, project management, and workflow management, particularly within an Agile framework.

• Ability to guide and influence work among various teams.

• Diverse business knowledge and the ability to illustrate the linkage between projects and desired business results.

• Well organized with strong detail orientation.

Preferred:

• Technical writing experience is a plus.

• Exposure to (experience with preferred) SQL and Python.

• Exposure to SDLC and Agile engineering best practices.

Company:

Shamrock Trading Corporation is the parent company for a family of brands in transportation services, finance and technology. Founded in 1986, the company is headquartered in Overland Park, Kansas, USA, with a team of 1001-5000 employees. The company is currently Late Stage.