Senior Analyst, Data Projects

About the role

Senior Analyst, Data Projects (ERP Focus)

Responsibilities

• Data product ownership: Oversee project scope and prioritization from discovery to delivery of data products, especially in the finance data domain.
• Develop and manage a thoughtful and integrated project roadmap and backlog.
• Present updates on incremental project deliveries to business partners and leadership audiences.
• Project team leadership: Lead the daily work of a cross-functional project team including data engineers, data architects, quality engineers, project managers, and business analysts.
• Manage timelines, costs, resources, and scope as key measures of success.
• Build team relationships to foster growth and mentorship.
• Stakeholder collaboration: Work closely with cross-functional teams (technical and non-technical) to understand business requirements, prioritize tasks, and deliver high-value data and analytics products.
• Manage stakeholder relationships to effectively balance business needs with technical capabilities.
• Thought leadership and strategy: Collaborate with non-technical stakeholders to define project needs and effectively translate the product vision to technical teams.
• Provide strategic guidance to business partners throughout the data lifecycle to promote a data-driven decision-making culture.
• Contribute to the larger Data Team vision to enable data as a strategic asset across the organization.
• Data governance and quality management: Implement and champion data governance practices throughout projects to ensure data integrity, quality, and reliability across all data product deliveries.

Requirements & Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Math, Economics, Engineering, Computer Science, or a related quantitative field.
• 10+ years of combined post-secondary education and relevant work experience, with a focus on product management, data governance, data management, or data analytics.
• 8+ years of hands-on experience leading and executing enterprise projects in a product owner/manager role, with a proven track record of delivering on time, on budget, in scope, and with high adoption of final product. Data cloud migration experience is a plus.
• Prior involvement in large-scale ERP transformations, especially managing data dependencies, cross-functional workflows, and other supporting data and reporting activities is preferred.
• Hands-on experience with Databricks or other cloud-based data analytics platforms (e.g., Snowflake, AWS Redshift).
• Strong communication skills, with the ability to explain complex technical concepts and solutions to non-technical audiences clearly and effectively.
• Proven ability to work across cross-functionally across departments and communicate with various stakeholders to gather requirements and drive project success.
• Analytical mindset with experience in solving complex problems and deriving effective solutions. Ability to independently navigate ambiguity in decision making.
• Experience in data modeling and designing data structures to optimize business insights and value is a plus.
• Experience using business intelligence tools like Tableau and Alteryx for data visualization and analysis is preferred.
• Proficiency in coding languages such as SQL, Python, Pyspark, etc. is preferred.

Benefits

• Your benefits start day one and are flexible and customizable to your and your family’s specific needs.
• The total compensation package for this position may also include a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits (including 401(k) eligibility and various paid time off benefits, such as vacation, sick time, and parental leave).
• If hired, the employee will be in an "at-will position" and National Life reserves the right to modify base salary (as well as any other discretionary payment or compensation or benefit program) at any time, including for reasons related to individual performance, company or individual department/team performance, and market factors.

Pay

Base Pay Range: $106,875 - $156,750 USD