Job Description
The Aurum Group is looking for a highly skilled and experienced Data Analyst to join our dynamic team in Calgary, AB. We are committed to delivering exceptional service in every interaction, every day.
We are a full-service dental company, with dental facilities across Canada and U.S. We offer a competitive salary package, benefits, paid vacation, pension plan and an exciting career in the dental industry.
The ideal candidate will have excellent analytical skills with a desire to learn new approaches, processes and tools. This position is a great fit for someone who is passionate about problem-solving and is motivated to dig deep to find the answers.
As a Data Analyst, you will play a pivotal role in extracting meaningful and actionable insights from large datasets, providing support to business stakeholders, contributing to data-driven decision-making processes, and ensuring the integrity of our data. The ideal candidate will be detail-oriented with a strong foundation in SQL and possesses excellent communication skills to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams.
With a proactive mindset, you are able to synthesize information across a broad ecosystem while ensuring completeness and accuracy. You are a team player that is able to network on all levels of the organization, while demonstrating a genuine curiosity that grows your understanding of the business and its related projects.
Performance Requirements & Expectations:
Power BI / Service
- Discover, collect, clean, interpret, manipulate, and analyze large complex data sets, while creating maps, visualizations, models, dashboards, and reports to present data, formulate solutions and make recommendations.
- Develop, update, manage and troubleshoot reports for various stakeholders in response to business requests.
SQL / DLCPM
- Providing support to the analytics team by managing, tracking, and maintaining databases across all lab locations.
- Ensuring standardization across databases by writing scripts and/or advanced procedures.
- Developing strategies to identify and highlight inconsistencies across data, while implementing protocols to maintain data integrity and consistency.
- Monitoring and providing timely details regarding issues and resolution steps to the appropriate internal teams.
Process Improvement and SOPs (Technical Documentation)
- Identify areas for process improvement and contribute to the development of efficient operating procedures.
- Create technical documents and/or SOPs for existing processes, methods, and models to ensure stakeholders have the necessary understanding and context, while promoting business continuity.
- Develop, update and maintain change logs and other documentation to effectively manage version control in line with progress of assigned projects and initiatives.
Ongoing Learning / Professional Development
- Have a demonstrated interest in learning and upskilling, while proactively seeking new and innovative solutions to resolve business challenges.
- Identify learning paths, courses, and a robust plan for our internal stakeholders to assist them in developing competencies and knowledge associated with our projects.
Organizational Support / Collaboration
- Contribute to organizational data projects while providing analysis and support to stakeholders in order to enable data-driven decision-making.
- Communicate the results and provide guidance on the use and interpretation of relevant data sources while contributing towards the resolution of issues with the analytics team.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to understand business requirements and provide analytical recommendations.
Skills & Qualifications:
- 5+ years of experience using SQL with advanced SQL proficiency.
- 3+ years of experience with data visualization tools (Power BI, Tableau, Looker)
Demonstrated Accomplishments
- Experience with optimizing queries and improving model performance.
- Experience in managing, handling, and analyzing large datasets.
- Strong understanding of data modeling, integrity, and database design principles.
- Strong communication skills to effectively convey insights to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Preference
- Experience with managing and administrating databases (indexing, monitoring, partitioning, security, backups) is preferred.
- Experience deploying modern data solutions leveraging components in Azure is preferred.
- Prior experience as a Data/Business Analyst or Database Administrator (or related function) is preferred.
Nice-to-have
- Experience and/or interest in automation technologies and process improvements.
- Experience and/or interest in data lakes/warehousing tools and techniques.
- Experience with DevOps TFS/Git is considered an asset.
- Experience with R / Python is considered an asset.
- Experience with big data technologies (e.g., Hadoop, Spark) is considered an asset.
Why Should You Apply?
- Company Pension Plan
- An exciting career in the dental industry
- Further education opportunities to advance your skills