The Economist Looking for Technical Business Analyst at Gurugram, Haryana, India Full Time

The Economist Group is a global media and information-services company that exists to champion progress. We provide individuals and organisations with the expertise, insights and perspective to press forward.

The Data, Research and Insights team at The Economist is entering a new phase of delivery which will build on the foundational work already completed and accelerate the pace at which we affect the drivers of our business. We have agreed on a core set of KPIs, redesigned our data platform from the ground up and started to deliver best-in-class dashboards to the business. Our next challenge is to harness the power of advanced analytics, including machine learning and AI, to impact the acquisition, engagement and retention of our customers and ultimately to drive profitable growth for the business. We have an ambitious roadmap to deliver data democratisation and personalisation capabilities and this role is key to ensuring we build the right things for the right reasons.

Accountabilities:

Reporting to the Senior Technical Business Analyst, the Technical Business Analyst will assess business requirements for data and data insights, data modelling, designing data-driven processes, and supporting the implementation of data solutions in order to improve our data infrastructure and information technology systems. You will also use the analysis to inform the product management process, developing user stories, evaluating their feasibility, defining acceptance criteria and working with developers to ensure end to end delivery of value.

How you will contribute:

• Working closely with Product Managers, Data Architects and development teams to ensure business data requirements are translated into appropriate technical data solutions, acting as a ‘translator’ between business, data and technology
• Supporting Data Product Managers and data lifecycle management, by fielding business requirements, creating backlog tasks, defining technical minimum acceptance criteria, and quality assuring technical solutions prior to implementation
• Getting analysis ready for the tech delivery team by performing source data evaluation, data system modelling, data mappings and data flow analysis
• Providing detailed data mappings between source systems and target data models to the development team, based on business requirements.
• Promoting data system efficiency and security by recommending enhancements to data operations and proposing data procedure improvements.
• Understanding, interpreting and documenting business processes along with their underpinning data elements.

To succeed in this role it would be an advantage if you possess:

• Experience with a data platform
• A Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or Information Technology, or an accredited qualification is a plus
• Experience performing analysis in the context of behavioural data and cloud analytics as well as transactional data
• Working knowledge of data architecture principles (such as data warehousing, data lakes, and ETL) as well as data technologies and languages (such as SQL, Python and R).
• Ability to self-direct and take on broad projects from beginning to end
• Knowledge of data security and privacy regulations and practices.With knowledge of PII and GDPR
• Strong communication skills, especially in facilitating the use of new technology systems and understanding business requirements with broad set of stakeholders across levels, including senior management as required
• Commercial experience in full-stack web development: Snowflake, Talend, airflow, Tableau, qliksense, Jira, and confluence
• Be proactive and curious
• High-energy, robust and resilient
• Analytical and driven by insight and understanding
• Collaborative, direct and open in approach
• Agile mentality – to develop a product management process fostering high-quality iterative delivery while we evolve towards a broader platform vision
• with data requirements, and assisting with data integration and acceptance testing.