Data Analyst III

Comerica - Frisco, TX

Full-time - Mid Level

Remote - Frisco, TX

Credit Intermediation and Related Activities

About the position

The Data Analyst III position is a critical role within the organization, serving as the data functional lead on various data initiatives aimed at delivering significant business value through a comprehensive range of data, information, and insight solutions. This role is pivotal in ensuring the quality of data-related deliverables on value delivery initiatives, which includes making solution recommendations and overseeing the overall design of data needs. The Data Analyst III will translate business requirements into actionable data requirements and will work closely with Information Architects to develop conceptual and logical designs that ensure usability and compliance with business needs. As the functional lead of a product or scrum team, this position is also responsible for ensuring that all initiatives adhere to the applicable enterprise data governance policies, standards, and guidelines. In terms of responsibilities, the Data Analyst III will design and oversee the implementation of data value delivery solutions that vary in complexity. This includes collaborating with Data Product Management, Data Governance and Strategy, and IT to ensure that both ad hoc and point solutions comply with technical and data architectural standards. The role requires a strong focus on ensuring that solution designs are in line with data governance policies and standards. Additionally, the Data Analyst III will provide recommendations and oversight for proposed solutions that require the integration of multiple data domains. The position also involves directing the technical activities of product and scrum team resources, both full-time employees and contractors, to ensure the quality of data solutions ranging from basic to complex. The Data Analyst III will deliver high-complexity data pipeline, reporting, and dashboard solutions that incorporate insights and analysis to support fact-based decision-making. Coordination with enterprise and information architect solution reviews is essential to ensure adherence to architectural and data governance standards. Furthermore, the Data Analyst III will collaborate with the broader Enterprise Data & Analytics organization to deploy visualizations of models and statistical analyses that support business decision-makers. Another key aspect of this role is solution scalability. The Data Analyst III will work with IT, Data Product Owners, Data Strategy, and other stakeholders to scale supported data solutions and products, identifying reuse opportunities to support rapid business decision-making. This includes extending existing solution functionality as needed and providing requirements to Data Strategy and project teams to support the expansion of key data assets for enterprise-wide use.

Responsibilities

• Designs and oversees the implementation of data value delivery solutions of varying degrees of complexity.
• Collaborates with Data Product Management, Data Governance and Strategy, and IT to ensure ad hoc and point solutions adhere to technical and data architectural standards.
• Ensures solution designs adhere to data governance policies, standards, and guidelines.
• Provides recommendations and data design oversight of proposed solutions requiring integration of two or more domains of data.
• Directs technical activities of product/scrum team resources (FTE and contractor) to ensure data solution quality on basic to complex solutions.
• Delivers data pipeline, reporting and dashboard solutions of the highest complexity requiring the incorporation of insights and analysis to support fact-based decision making.
• Coordinates enterprise and information architect solution reviews to ensure adherence to architectural and data governance standards.
• Collaborates with the broader Enterprise Data & Analytics organizations to deploy visualization of models and statistical analysis to support business decision makers.
• Collaborates with IT, Data Product Owners, Data Strategy, and other stakeholders to scale supported data solutions and products for reuse opportunities.
• Recommends solution reuse to support rapid business decision support.
• Extends existing solution functionality as needed to expand reuse opportunities.
• Provides requirements to Data Strategy and project teams to support the expansion of key data assets for broad enterprise use.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree from an accredited university in Computer Science, Engineering, Math, or other relevant technology degrees or High School diploma or GED and 10 years of progressively responsible experience.
• 5 years of experience in technology and proficiency.
• 4 years of experience leading large, complex/critical technology projects.
• 4 years of experience influencing strategy for large organizations.
• 2 years of experience in Data Modeling and Architecture.

Nice-to-haves

• 4 years of experience in data visualization techniques (Power BI, Tableau).
• 4 years of experience with Microsoft Office and expanded product lines (Visio, MS Project, SharePoint).
• 3 years of experience documenting and assisting product owners with creating data and business requirements.
• 3 years of experience in banking or related financial industries.
• Proficiency in data profiling, statistical analysis, data analysis, and data standardization / cleansing techniques.
• Strong SQL skills with the ability to write sophisticated queries across large, complex data sets.
• Experience using statistical techniques to discover the root cause of data quality issues and recommend remediation options.
• Ability to analyze data trends, identify patterns and proactively address potential data quality issues.
• Experience with Collibra, Informatica, and Snowflake (Python, R is a plus).