Analytics Centre of Excellence

**Position**: Analytics & Data Science Specialist
**Position Type**: Full-time, Permanent, Excluded
**Location**: Edmonton, Alberta
**Classification**: Pay Group V
**Salary Range**: $ 77,335.00 - $110,479.00

**Wanted**: data thinkers, dreamers, and doers
- where data meets inspiration to make a difference

What you’re passionate about
A typical day for the Analytics & Data Science Specialist
- Agility first - attend virtual stand-up meetings with the team to review progress, priorities, and issues.
- Collaborate, design, develop, and problem-solve with a supportive team.
- Check requirements, ask questions, think, explore, verify.
- Gain an understanding of data relationships, definitions, rules, and nuances.
- Identify opportunities to achieve high-quality data and enrichment.
- Provide new insights into data by visualizing trends, identifying data correlations, and building predictive models.
- Contribute ideas on presenting data, key performance metrics, reporting, insights, interface interactions, and dashboards.
- Build technical and business knowledge.
- Support operations promptly, fulfilling data requests, improving performance, gaining efficiency, and sharing knowledge.
- Document and present relevant material clearly and concisely to a target audience.
- Follow information management standards and maintain the security and privacy of personal and identifiable data.
- Work with the Analytics Centre of Excellence manager to establish and achieve goals.

What you bring
- Degree or diploma in computer science or information systems.
- Five years of data analysis or related technical experience.
- Expert working knowledge in database querying (SQL) data analysis and visualization.
- Belief in doing the right thing, taking responsibility, and making interactions count.

**Experience with**:

- Agile, Scrum, or comparable process methodology
- Microsoft SQL Server, SSRS, SSIS, SSAS, SQL, T-SQL
- Microsoft TFS or Agile DevOps
- Office 365 and Teams
- Data Analytics: Incorta or alternatives like SAS, Tableau, or Power BI

**Experience in these areas is an asset**:

- Pension or financial systems
- Statistical modeling
- Programming or scripting languages such as Python, R, C#, and Powershell
- SharePoint and SharePoint integration (Power Automate, Nintex)
- Linux and Windows integration
- Azure
- Data architecture: data lakes, unstructured data, data warehouses
- MetaCenter or other enterprise metadata management and data governance platforms

Why choose APS
APS is made up of hard-working, respectful and talented people who understand and invite diversity to the workplace. We take pride in holding ourselves accountable and continuing to meet or exceed service levels for plan members, pensioners and employers. We ensure they receive quality services because they—along with our people—are the reason we endure and succeed.

And it sure feels good helping hard-working Albertans receive their well-deserved pensions.
What APS has to offer
- Defined benefit pension plan
- Flexible work arrangements that make sense to you: work from home, relocation and more
- Community-minded workplace with a friendly team environment
- Vacation starting at 15 days per year, 13 statutory holidays, personal days, plus office closure between Christmas and New Year’s Day
- Competitive benefit package featuring extended health and dental benefits and a 100% employer-paid flexible spending account
- In-house training programs, extensive career development and coaching program, access to external education opportunities and wellness programs
- Discount programs through various partner agencies