About This Role

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With us, you’ll do meaningful work from Day 1. Our collaborative culture is built on three core behaviors: We Play to Win, We Get Better Every Day & We Succeed Together. And we mean it — we want you to grow and make a difference at one of the world's leading digital banking and payments companies. We value what makes you unique so that you have an opportunity to shine.

Come build your future, while being the reason millions of people find a brighter financial future with Discover.

Job Description

Discover Financial Services is seeking a Lead Business Data Analyst to join our Data Engineering team in the Data and Analytics business unit. Successful candidates will partner with our business partners to understand their data analysis & sourcing needs, design and build enterprise data assets and help the team build data pipelines using Next-Gen tools & new capabilities. Additionally you will be responsible to achieve operational excellence and ensure that we align our data growth to the Data Management and Data Governance frameworks. The ideal candidate will be passionate about Discover Financial Service’s data and its mission.

Responsibilities

• Interpret client enterprise marketing strategy and translate into operational execution of technology solutions
• Interface with the business and technology teams to support the design and delivery of medium to large scale integrated solutions 
• Elicit requirements from business stakeholders which are essential to defining capabilities required for executing business strategy.
• Take primary ownership for written requirements specifications, from initial creation, through change management and solution delivery
• Be the solution wide functional and data subject matter expert on large scope projects
• Able to assemble, analyze and evaluate data to make appropriate and well-reasoned recommendations and decisions to support the business and project teams 
• Communicate and collaborate with IT application and data architects / SMEs as required for business and IT mapping and creation of roadmaps for implementing technology solutions relevant to executing on specified strategy.
• Lead and drive conversations with technical and business stakeholders to design and validate design against requirements
• Elicit objective criteria for solution acceptance and ensure mapping and traceability from desired capabilities through to candidate solution presented for acceptance.
• Be an ongoing solution advocate to ensure enhancements and future development roadmap conforms to solution design and client business objectives.
• Able to quickly develop and maintain relationships within the organization and/or with external partners, and understand the unique needs of each partnership 
• Partner with business and technology teams to develop data applications. Identify business data ingestion and processing frameworks. Coordinates and obtains data application requirements from the business. Translates business requirements to development teams. Assist with development and testing processes. Coordinate data application and model deployments and validations.
• Assists with the development of models, analytic processes, and reports. Provides guidance on the development of data consumption processes.
• Ensures data governance policies are followed by implementing and validating data lineage, quality checks, classification, etc.
• Provides support for deployed data applications and analytical models. Identifies data problems and guides issue resolutions.
• Provides data and technical consulting during data application design. Provide technical consulting on data composition and data engineering.
   

Minimum Qualifications

At a minimum, here’s what we need from you:

• Bachelors degree in Information Technology, or related
• 4+ years work experience in data analysis, business analysis, data application programming, ETL development, next generation databases, or related
• In lieu of degree, 6+ years work experience in data analysis, business analysis, data application programming, ETL development, next generation databases, or related

Desired Qualifications:

If we had our say, we’d also look for:

• 7+ years experience with writing detailed requirements specifications for IT solution delivery with a significant database component or database focus - consisting of at least 100 distinct enumerated requirements
• 7+ years experience as a business requirements analyst with full lifecycle software implementations involving large databases.
• Strong knowledge of ETL pipelines
• The ability to troubleshoot and resolve data quality issues
• Advanced SQL skills – Able to navigate a full database solution including writing queries to aggregate data for deep insights. 
• Deep experience in CRM , Customer Data & Customer Identity solutions
• The ability to create technical documentation (including Visio documentation of overall business solution) required 
• Consultative - able to quickly develop rapport and establish credibility that results in trust and respect from business and technical 
• Skilled with Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Project and Visio 
• Agile/Scrum project experience, especially utilizing Jira
• Domain experience with marketing analytics and financial services
• Exhibits intense curiosity, to dig beneath the superficial and identify facts
• Excellent drive and initiative, and sense of personal accountability 
• Excellent organizational skills and interpersonal skills 
• Excellent problem solving skills in order to move toward a project’s successful completion 
• Strong blend of business acumen and technical aptitude

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All Discover employees place our customers at the very the center of our work. To deliver on our promises to our customers, each of us contribute every day to a culture that values compliance and risk management.

The same way we treat our employees is how we treat all applicants – with respect. Discover Financial Services is an equal opportunity employer (EEO is the law). We thrive on diversity & inclusion. You will be treated fairly throughout our recruiting process and without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran status in consideration for a career at Discover.