Data Analyst 1620 views

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Description

EPAM Systems are currently seeking an experienced
Data Analyst
to join on a contract basis to work with one of our leading FS clients in central London.

Responsibilities

• Analysis to identify data requirements, attributes, entities and relationships, gather data dictionary definitions
• Understand problems and issues in the current architecture
• Work closely with SME’s and data architects
• Analyze the actual data itself
• Organize meetings and take notes of all of the analysis
• Act as the interface between data architects, SME and content experts
• Work with minimum supervision
• Follow up on questions raised by data architects
• Read and understand data models
• Able to work comfortably with granular levels of detail
• Able to prioritize workloads
• Deliverables:
  • Document data requirements
  • List of attributes, entities and relationships within scope of project
  • Data dictionary definitions
  • List of problems and issues in the current architecture

  Requirements

• Prior experience with least 5 years having worked on large data migration programmes
• Full lifecycle experience from project inception, feasibility, design – through to project delivery
• Good understanding of financial reference and/or market reference data
• Understanding of UML and or logical data models is essential for this role
• Understanding of RDBMS’s and proficiency with SQL
• Stakeholder Management experience and skills – able to converse with all levels of stakeholders to understand and extract business requirements
• Problem solving skills
• Excellent oral and written communication skills
• Collaborative approach
• Organize and facilitate meetings & workshops and record actions and decisions
• Exposure and understanding of different agile approaches and good working knowledge of analysis tools including Jira
• Experience of Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect desirable but not essential
• Understanding of JSON, XML & Semantic Web technologies (e.g. RDF, OWL, SPARQL & SHACL) desirable but not essential