Data Analytics Specialist

3 months ago


Edmonton, Canada Handis Consulting Full time

**Data Analytics Specialist (contract)**

Type of work: Remote

Fixed Term Contract: 11 months (2024-10-02 to 2025-08-31) and up to 12 month extension

Location: Edmonton, remote/hybrid

**Rate: $100.00/hr**

Closing Date: September 11, 2024

**About Handis**:
Handis Consulting looks after various clients primarily in Alberta, as well as all over Canada. Our professional and driven Recruitment Department specializes in the placement of top-level professionals in optimally desirable positions provincially and nationally.

**Description**:
**Responsibilities**:

- Design, orchestrate and develop high-performance and robust ETL pipelines leveraging cloud native tools
- Integrate DevOps practices to the development workflow using CI/CD best practices
- Build and optimize data warehouses, data lakes, ensuring efficient storage and retrieval system for analytical needs
- Provide expertise in data modelling (star or snowflake schema) to enhance data flow and query performance, supporting Data Product Delivery
- Hands-on experience with building and managing data products, from initial concept through to deployment while ensuring alignment with business objectives and user requirements
- Understanding of Data Product Market place and its key Data Governance components including Data Quality, Meta data, Data lineage, accessibility and standardization
- Demonstrate strong commitment to Data Security and Compliance to protect sensitive information and enforce data governance in enterprise platforms (access control, security policies across platforms etc.)
- Work across a myriad of technology stacks in Azure, Cloudera, Snowflake, PowerBI etc.
- Experience with Python and SQL in the context of building data pipelines
- Experience working with Big Data technologies
- Experience in Data Analytics
- Design and create dashboards and custom reporting with various data sources and inputs.
- Provide executives and decision makers a deeper understanding of their operations, transactions, services and information required for them to identify new opportunities that can only be uncovered through analytics
- Provide depth and insight to data produced by the various teams and transform them into meaningful analytics for decision making
- Ensure delivery processes are robust, of high quality and repeatable
- Provide strategic agility and the ability to make sense of large amounts of disparate data to tell a cohesive story focused on key strategic decision-making for executives
- Integrate both quantitative and qualitative data to create business insights
- Analyze data and prepare information results
- Gather and document client requirements
- Design and construct information products
- Capture business and technical metadata for information products
- Establish and operate control processes including schedule management, status reporting, issues, risk, and change management at the program level
- Escalate issues and risks, as appropriate
- Work within a multi-vendor/staff environment

**Equipment requirements**:
Contractor will require own computer and related equipment. The computer's operating system must be a modern version of Windows or MacOS that is compatible with Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) and related software for remote access. Windows is preferred due to better compatibility. AVD/remote-related software will be installed on the resource's computer.

**Working Hours**

Standard Hours of work are 08:15 - 16:30 Alberta time, Monday through Friday excluding holidays observed by the Province.

Work must be done from **within Canada**, due to network and data security issues.

It is anticipated the role will be 100% remote, however in the event of an onsite meeting, the client/Handis Consulting Inc. does not pay for travel to attend on-site meetings.

**Requirements**:
**Education**
- University graduation
- Computing Science (CS), Information Technology (IT), Engineering (ENG), Management Information Systems (MIS) or related discipline & 6-yrs progressive related experience; OR
- 2-yr diploma-CS, IT, ENG, MIS or related discipline & 8-yrs progressive related experience; OR
- 1-yr certificate
- CS, IT, ENG, MIS or related discipline & 9-yrs progressive related experience; OR
- 10-yrs progressive related experience

**Work Experience**
- 3 years experience building high performance, scalable and robust ETL pipelines in distributed clusters
- 3 years experience in creating Microsoft-SQL database solutions
- 5 years experience in data analytics or data science, data engineering and/or AI
- 3 years experience integrating DevOps practices to the development workflow using CI/CD best practices
- 5 years experience using analytical and problem solving skills to plan and design creative solutions
- 4 years experience with dimensional modeling techniques
- 3 years experience with Python development
- 4 years experience with relational database modeling techniques
- 4 years experience working in a data warehouse/business intelligence or



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