The Mortgage Business Intelligence & Analytics team oversees all activities and functions involved with the company’s Business Intelligence platform, giving mortgage company business leaders access to reliable, actionable data to better manage and understand the business and drive company growth.
We are seeking a data analyst to focus on continuous auditing of our data quality. This role will be responsible for the oversight of our data throughout its lifecycle, including ingestion, transformation, and presentation within reporting. They will partner closely with the data engineering team to test new data sources and ensure parity with production systems, and proper modeling for our reporting environment. The Data Quality Analyst will also contribute to the documentation, development, and maintenance of our reports.
What you will be doing:
Data Quality (35%)
Test and validate new data sourced by the data engineering team including 1:1 validation against production systems
Ongoing validation of primary and derived tables
Periodic review of reports to ensure parity across reporting
Assist with peer reviews of team’s work
Regulatory Reporting (20%)
Ongoing monitoring of exceptions, including engagement with business partners to resolve data discrepancies
Collection and curation of data points from business partners
Execution of regulatory data preparation processes
Documented validation of datasets against system of record
Documentation (15%)
Update and maintain data lineage and definitions of our primary data models
Create metadata for existing and new reports
Maintenance (20%)
Make minor changes and updates to existing reports as needed
Submit pull requests for changes to views used for reporting
Continuous enhancement of semantic models including efficiency audits
Team Support & Other Duties (10%)
Provide backfill support for ongoing team work
Assist on specific projects as needed
Qualifications
2-5 years’ experience in a data focused role
Core understanding of data pipeline including ingestion, transformation, modeling, and preparation
Strong understanding of data validation procedures including system parity, checksum, row-level, object-level, and incremental change validations
Experience with documenting and maintaining validation logs
Report development and data visualization experience
Ability to independently trace and resolve issues through research and data mining
Mortgage experience strongly preferred
Required Skills
Intermediate to Advanced proficiency with MS SQL Server including:
Standard data mining
Advanced querying/window methods
Create/read views and stored procedures
Joins across multivariate datasets including multiple keys
Data normalization
Basic to Intermediate proficiency with Power BI including
Power Query
Semantic Models
DAX
Report design and layout
VCS such as Git or TFS
Strong written and verbal communication skills
Critical thinking
Working knowledge of Microsoft Fabric a plus
This opportunity is fully remote with the option to work from our offices in San Diego, CA, Irvine, CA, or Omaha, NE for those who prefer an office environment. You will be joining a dynamic, fully remote team which is distributed across pacific, central, and eastern time zones and supporting our business across all US time zones.
We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship for this role.