Big Data Analyst
Lansing, MI
12 months Contract
H1’s are fine
In-person interview
Essential Job Functions:
• Build, configure and maintain the EDC application. • Design, build, configure and maintain data connections between EDC and Client’s data systems. • Collaborate with internal and external technical resources to establish and maintain data integrations. • Enable scheduled metadata refreshes of the EDC. • Identify EDC system or data connection issues and drive them to resolution. • Maintain a log of EDC feature enhancement requests. Drive fulfillment of feature enhancements through hands-on configuration or by writing specifications for a developer. Perform quality assurance tasks relating to EDC, EDC connections, scheduled refreshes, user access, and other system functions. Proactively review system logs to ensure that the EDC system is working as expected. • Create and maintain all EDC and EDC connection documentation. • Collaborate with technical resources at the EDC hosting provider, giving them direction as needed. • Perform day-to-day administration of the EDC. • Respond to information requests. • Support end user community by responding to technical and usage-related questions. • Follow standard procedures for proper escalation of unresolved issues to the appropriate internal teams. • Ensure proper recording and closure of all issues. Prepare accurate and timely reports. • Document knowledge in the form of knowledge base tech notes and articles. Be part of on-call rotation to support the application 24/7/365
Minimum Qualifications and Job Requirements: Bachelor’s degree from a four-year college or university. Candidates with other credentials will be considered if application demonstrates sufficient accomplishment in areas required by the role. Additionally, • 3 years building, supporting and using data catalogs and business glossaries. • 2 years’ experience with data lifecycle management and data flows. • 2 years working with big data stores, data warehouses, data marts, relational databases, and NoSQL systems
customers, Client is building out the team, technologies, processes and management disciplines to grow its competency in the data strategy and data governance areas.
The Enterprise Data Catalog (EDC) is one such technology contributing to this mission. The EDC is the system-of-record catalog for Client’s data assets. Alongside the EDC system is the discipline of data stewardship – the process of cataloging, curating, and supervising the use of client’s data as it is utilized within and by the organization. This position is “Enterprise Data Catalog System Owner and Enterprise Data Steward” and as such has two different, yet complementary, roles.
The first role – EDC System Owner – is to perform the hands-on technical configuration work to establish, configure, and maintain Client’s new Enterprise Data Catalog (EDC). At first, the EDC System Owner will be responsible for building the EDC. To build the EDC will be to create the production instance, establish integrations between the EDC and targeted data systems, implement scheduled metadata ingestion processes, and deploy EDC to an end user community. The build part of the role picks up following a proof of concept, in which a limited version of the EDC was evaluated for use.
As the EDC is built, the role will take on and maintain and grow a set of responsibilities. These responsibilities will be to ensure the proper function of the EDC and create or update metadata connections with EDC as new data systems come on board at Client. The second role – Enterprise Data Steward – is to serve the Client community as a deep, subject matter expert about Client’s data assets. As the Enterprise Data Steward, this individual will be a tremendous resource for product owners, strategists, analysts, data engineers, and technologists who need to understand Client’s data. Using the EDC, the Enterprise Data Steward will understand and have visibility to the location, origins, structure, condition, movement, lifecycle, and other attributes of FordDirect’s data. In this unique, dual-faceted position, this individual will play an important role in the growth and delivery of client’s Data Governance discipline.
The ideal candidate for this position will have strong familiarity with data catalogs, the practice of data cataloging, meta data management, and data curation. The person will be a quick learner, intrinsically motived, and able to produce high-quality output. This is a technical role. While hands-on coding of the EDC is not required, the individual must be able to identify when coding is required. He or she will need to write specifications, secure time with the developer, and ensure completion of the task. This individual will work under the direction of the EDC system owner within client Information Technology. The individual will collaborate cross-functionally with resources from client Data Strategy, Analytics & BI team, and many groups within Information Technology and Product teams, to perform the duties of this role.
Other Responsibilities:
1. Abide by the policies and procedures of the company; adhere to the company’s compliance program. 2. Safeguard the company’s intellectual property, data, information, and assets. 3. Handle personal information (“PI”) that pertains to any individual in accordance with client’s Information Privacy Guiding Principles, privacy policy and public facing privacy statements on FordDirect managed websites. 4. Complete any required training as directed. 5. Promptly report any known or suspected loss, theft or unauthorized disclosure or use of PI to the General Counsel/Chief Compliance Officer or Chief Information Officer. 6. Other duties as assigned.