Job Description

Talent Street is looking for Senior Data Analysts for a federal government agency in Canberra.

Role: Senior Data Analyst

Client: Federal Govt Agency

Engagement Type: Full time Contract

Duration: 12 months with potential 24 months extension

Estimated Start: Mid-February 2025

Location: ACT

Security Clearance: Must hold Baseline Clearance

About the Role

Data Analysts design, analysis and delivery of relevant, trusted and objective statistics and data-related insights.

The Data Analyst should have experience in the areas of SAS migration/upgrades, data quality profiling, and exposure to metadata management practices and tools such as Aristotle or other data cataloguing solutions. The role assists with the management of the organisation’s data assets to ensure data is discoverable, understood and of appropriate quality.

The analyst uncovers and where appropriate documents customers’ data requirements and is able to:

• Conduct data quality analysis and curate/ transform data present in DataLake/Teradata to support reporting needs
• Generate data quality profiles using SAS data management tools, Teradata and/or Data Lake
• Use SAS tools such as QKB to identify duplicate records and implement matching scenarios
• Develop reporting to visualise data quality profiling results and to support the use and management of data catalogues using tools such as Power BI and Tableau.

Senior Data Analysts work under the limited direction of senior staff. They exercise both initiative and judgement in the interpretation of policy and in the application of practices and procedures. Decision making is dependent on judgement, skills and knowledge. Senior Data Analysts manage and organise their own work in the context of competing priorities, including contributing to business planning, changes in workplace practices and business improvement strategies.

Key duties and responsibilities

Duties may include some or all of the following:

• Evaluating, defining, integrating and organising data coming from multiple operational systems
• Performing administrative, technical and customising tasks in the data environment 
• Controlling and assisting with the data management process, including loading, creating maintaining, analysing and distributing data
• Resolving data integration issues related to data in their area of expertise 
• Developing and maintaining reports, dashboards and other visualisations to support data governance and data management processes
• Collaborating with stakeholders to resolve issues and ensure effective, timely implementation of projects
• Monitor workloads to ensure business goals are achieved
• Assist in the processing of data, including matching and maintaining specific object data
• Develop data standards and provide input to strategy for the solution
• Assist in development of, and execution of, data quality programmes
• Contribute to the development and implementation of improvements and best practice in processes and procedures
• Contribute to relevant business and people planning, and develop local strategies to improve against key performance measures
• Prepare correspondence such as reports, corporate and technical documentation for review by executive level staff
• Resolve or escalate issues as required and suggest alternative approaches
• Exercise appropriate delegation in accordance with legislation and guidelines

Technical skills Requirement

• Experience in data analysis including data governance and data management in government/public sector or industry equivalent.
• Experience in at least one of the following tools - Data Lake, HUE, SAS, SQL, Aged Care, EDW/Teradata, Mainframe, Tableau.
• Working knowledge of Data Lake, Hadoop, EDW, Cloudera and Hue.
• Experience in designing and delivering data analytics solutions for large and complex projects.

If interested in the above role, please APPLY here or reach out to Sejal on scheema@talentstreet.com.au