Title: Junior BI Specialist

Location: New York, NY

Duration: 6-month contract

Pay: $38/hour on W2

• Analyze big data and undertake exploratory data analysis while observing best practices for experimentation / analysis
• Perform data preparation, data blending, data visualization
• Develop business intelligence applications and present outcomes
• Design indicators of business intelligence application performance and risk metrics
• Synthesize analysis results to inform business outcomes
• Identify, escalate and resolve systems and algorithm performance trends or issues
• Deliver business intelligence products in the context of your organizations change agenda
• Track and report progress on projects, adhering to the solution delivery lifecycle
• Seek information / guidance / opportunities from inside and outside of your firm / industry to corroborate outcomes
• Collaborate with other solution experts / advisors to share ideas / code through showcasing outputs

Basic Qualifications

• 1-5 years' experience in (1) Business Intelligence and (2) Project, Communication and Stakeholder Management
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent in Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics
• Relevant experience in Consumer, Financial, Social Media, FinTech
• Practitioner in business intelligence and/or artificial intelligence methodologies and their value / limitations
• Software design and application of software according to the day-to-day realities of the business

Skills:

• Fast learner and effective communicator of new / complex information
• Self-motivated team player who is able to define, structure and prioritize work, but who has the flexibility to change priorities when circumstances dictate
• Able to develop cooperative and constructive working relations with strong cultural awareness
• Confidence to challenge and be innovative

Preferred Qualifications

Business

• Financial Engineering and / or Investment Management experience
• Able to contextualize analysis in Confluence, JIRA, Microsoft Applications, etc.

Solution Delivery

• Experience with implementing according to solution delivery frameworks such as Agile, Six Sigma, Waterfall, etc.
• Experience in the practice of continuous integration / continuous deployment

Business Intelligence

• Working knowledge of analytics applications (i.e. Alteryx, Tableau, Qlik)
• Working knowledge of workflow applications (e.g. Appian, unqork, Xceptor)
• Working knowledge of database tools (e.g. Elasticsearch, MS SQL Server)

Artificial Intelligence

• Working knowledge of artificial intelligence programming languages (e.g. Python, R)
• Working knowledge of artificial intelligence scientific computing packages (e.g. Scikit-Learn, Pandas, NLTK)
• Working knowledge of artificial intelligence platforms including robotics (e.g. Automation Anywhere, Anaconda, GitHub/Lab, Jupyter Hub, UiPath)

Education:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent in Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics