Data Analyst

About the role

Location: St. Louis, MO. Type: Contract to Hire. We are looking for someone who can serve as a bridge between business stakeholders and engineering teams, with ownership of metric governance, testing, data quality, and business support activities.

Responsibilities

• Validate and reconcile executive, advisor, and board-facing metrics against source systems prior to release.
• Execute release sign-off and document any exceptions.
• Maintain metric definitions, calculation logic, lineage, and supporting documentation.
• Escalate validation issues and coordinate remediation with business data owners.
• Recommend hold/release decisions when discrepancies are identified.
• Define test cases based on business requirements and metric definitions.
• Coordinate stakeholder validation activities for releases.
• Perform regression testing across dashboards, reports, and metrics impacted by changes.
• Log, track, and verify defect resolution.
• Provide release readiness recommendations to data product owners.
• Define and maintain recurring data quality checks.
• Investigate data quality issues and perform root cause analysis.
• Coordinate with business data owners to resolve source data defects.
• Perform ongoing reconciliation of reporting outputs against source systems.
• Report data quality status and open issues to product owners.
• Partner with stakeholders to define requirements and business logic for new metrics and reporting enhancements.
• Serve as the primary point of contact for questions regarding metric definitions and reported results.
• Maintain documentation that supports stakeholder self-service and adoption.

Desired Qualifications

• Strong SQL and analytical skills.
• Experience supporting business-critical reporting and metric validation.
• Experience with UAT, data quality management, and root cause analysis.
• Strong stakeholder engagement and communication skills.
• Experience with Power BI or similar reporting platforms.
• Strong documentation and requirements gathering experience.