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Data Analyst

We Are:

Fermilab is America’s premier laboratory for particle physics and accelerator research, funded by the U.S. Department of Energy. We support discovery science experiments in Illinois and at locations around the world, including deep underground mines in South Dakota and Canada, mountaintops in Arizona and Chile, CERN in Europe and the South Pole.

We are strategic risk takers, innovators, and collaborators. We are engineers, scientists, technicians, administrative professionals. We are 1,800 employees advancing knowledge for the benefit of humankind. Fermilab has been at the forefront of particle physics for more than 40 years. We build world-leading accelerators and detectors to conduct some of the most advanced particle physics experiments possible. We collect and analyze the data from those experiments with some of the most powerful computers in the world. We conduct this research on a 6,800-acre prairie, 35 miles outside Chicago, a treasure that has been designated a National Environmental Research Park.

The Data Analyst position is a key role in the Office of Contractor Assurance – Performance Oversight Department, responsible for various database administration/management and data governance activities in support of and in collaboration with enterprise initiatives.

You will:

Own the process to capture and maintain standard data definitions for each data element, conformed item, and calculated item available for use in the data environment.
Coordinate with various groups to establish and maintain standard and consistent definitions; identify key performance indicators, as defined by senior management and key collaborators to ensure alignment with other business units.
Coordinate with related Information Technology teams to ensure alignment of data definition across the enterprise, and coordinate with IT on the establishment of standard definitions as available fields in the data environment.
Lead the process to identify, prioritize, and complete data quality improvement initiatives to ensure that high-quality, accurate data is available for use in the data environment.
Participate in profiling data from various sources to identify and understand current-state data quality, lead and coordinate data quality improvement efforts from source system inputs to the final presentation through the data warehouse.
Participate in enterprise data quality discussions and initiatives to ensure alignment across the bank.
Lead the process of collecting data and preparing important reports and dashboards.
Perform sophisticated joins between different data sources to create single unified views.
Prepare and is responsible for the preparation of reports, dashboards, and presentations.
Develop and implement plans to use predictive modeling, trend analysis, and other data analysis techniques to explore data and answer specific research questions.
Lead the secure collection, cleaning, standardization, transformation, and storing of data from various sources.
Collaborate with other functions across the Office of Contractor Assurance to continuously improve processes.

We are looking for:

Bachelor’s or master’s degree in technical science, computer information systems, information technology, economics, or a mathematics subject area.
Overall experience in analytics should be 7-10 years.
At least 5 years of experience using SQL, PowerBI, Tableau, Excel, PowerPoint or other tools to query, extract, manipulate, and analyze large datasets.
Solid project management and interpersonal skills
Critical Thinking skills

Relocation is not available for this position

Fermilab is an Equal Opportunity Employer and believes a diverse and inclusive environment based on mutual respect is essential to our mission. Fermilab is committed to recruiting and developing the most hardworking people and does not discriminate in employment on the basis of race, ethnicity, color, religion, age, sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, military/veteran status, country of birth, geography/postal code, disability, marital status, parental or gestational status, or other non-merit factor.

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If a candidate is selected for an interview but does not possess any of the equivalent documents, we may schedule a virtual interview.

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