ROLE: Data Analyst
LOCATION: Rockville, MD
OVERVIEW: Apex Systems has an immediate need for Data Analysts to be part of a brand new market surveillance team, ready for a large financial project roll out. Successful candidates must have strong data/business analytical skills, in addition to a strong SQL technical ability.
RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Construct SQL queries to gain an understanding of data sets, discover data anomalies, and look for ways to leverage data in support of project/company mission,
- Serve as a subject matter expert (SME) for specific surveillance products,
- Analyze impacts of enhancements, issues, or changes to data/surveillance products,
- Interact with stakeholders to understand data cases, document and review requirements, and elicit feedback,
- Build strong relationships with stakeholders and develop an understanding of stakeholder needs for advocacy and planning,
- Use statistical and other advanced techniques to analyze and interrogate data for business insights,
- Assimilate and present results and conclusions to a variety of business and technical stakeholders,
- Collaborate with the delivery team throughout the SDLC process.
REQUIREMENTS:
- Degree in Data Analytics, or related field (Master's highly preferred),
- Previous experience within financial domain (brokerage company, stock exchange) is a huge advantage,
- Strong foundation in SQL including Analytical SQL, pulling data from large data sets,
- Experience in understanding the usage of statistics in data analysis,
- Experience working with very large data sets, preferably in a Big Data environment,
- High caliber of written and verbal communication skills including formal requirement writing,
- Experience working with AWS Cloud technologies is a plus
Required Skills : SQL Data Sets Big Data
Basic Qualification :
Additional Skills :
Background Check :Yes
Drug Screen :Yes
Notes :
Selling points for candidate :
Project Verification Info :
Candidate must be your W2 Employee :Yes
Exclusive to Apex :No
Face to face interview required :No
Candidate must be local :No
Candidate must be authorized to work without sponsorship ::No
Interview times set : :No
Type of project :Assessment/Analysis
Master Job Title :Data Analyst
Branch Code :Montgomery County