Senior Analyst, Data Projects

About the role

Since 1848, National Life Group has aimed to keep our promises, providing families with stability in good times and in bad. Our mission extends beyond the insurance and annuities policies that we offer. We strive to make the world a better place through our grants from our charitable foundation, paid volunteer time for our employees, environmentally sustainable and healthy workplaces, and events that promote the work of nonprofits in our own backyard. We foster a collaborative environment with opportunities for growth and encourage our associates to live our values: Do good. Be good. Make good.

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. Check out the BENEFITS of a Career at National Life!

Pay

The base pay range for this position is the range National Life reasonably and in good faith expects to pay for the position taking into account the wide variety of factors, including: prior experience and job-related knowledge; education, training and certificates; current business needs; and market factors. The final salary or hourly wages offered may be outside of this range based on other reasons and individual circumstances.

Schedule

The work schedule type and core days are subject to change with advance notification and manager discretion. Our current onsite core days are Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday.