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Job Title
Communications & High Tech - Data Analyst - Seattle, WA
Location
Seattle, WA
Listing Date
May 02, 2008
Reference Number
294006
Employment Type
Permanent
Salary
Not Disclosed
Experience Requirements
None Given
Accenture
Recruiter Accenture
Company Web Site
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Job Title: Communications & High Tech - Data Analyst - Seattle, WA
Company Name: Accenture
Required Technical Skills:
Design, Development & Implementation
Job Description:
Organization: Communications & High Tech
Location: Seattle, WA
If you join Accenture you can make great ideas happen for some of the world's most dynamic companies. With broad global resources and deep technical know-how, we collaborate with clients to cultivate ideas and deliver results. Choose a career at Accenture and enjoy an innovative environment where challenging and interesting work is part of daily life.
Accenture’s Services workforce is a dedicated team of people who work on outsourcing engagements. These are long-term partnerships with clients for whom we manage and provide increasingly specialized business operations, such as finance and accounting, IT, applications development and maintenance, help desk services, and HR. We not only maintain key business functions for clients, we constantly seek to improve them to help our clients move ahead of the competition.
Job Description
The Data Analyst is expected to own analysis on medium to large sized business intelligence projects, and to work with solution delivery to write detailed functional specifications translating business requirements in functional constructs. In addition, the analyst is expected to drive definition of data attributes, calculations, metrics and entities by working with solution delivery and development team.
Key responsibilities may include:
- Gather, refine and prioritize requirements from product manager and/or business owners through meetings, questionnaires or interviews
- Assess current business systems and define work items to identify and implement functional requirements that address system gaps/issues
- Translate business requirements into systemic requirements and detailed functional designs for major project application components
- Assist project management with definition of scope and management of application architectural designs
- Maintain deep familiarity with systems development lifecycle
- Work with development and test teams to ensure completeness and feasibility of functional specifications and obtain sign-off
- Ensure business owners and/or end users have understanding of design approach and system functionality to attain business sign-off
- Estimate order of magnitude and help identify resource requirements
- Work with project team members, other internal groups and external vendor groups to troubleshoot and resolve system issues in a timely manner
- Prepare presentations and status reports to communicate application development status
- Organize and lead change management and issue resolution meetings with product management, test and development teams
- Research different approaches to address systems issues, perform cost/benefit/risk analysis on alternatives and communicate results to project stakeholders to facilitate decision making
- Serve as primary point of contact and subject matter expert for large application components during the planning, development and stabilizing periods
- Assist in management of ongoing quality assurance efforts to ensure application delivery meets expectations of end-users per business requirements
- Travel up to 10%
Sample Project Deliverables
- Detailed Business Requirements
- Functional specifications
- Process Definitions
- High Level Test Scenarios
Qualifications
Basic Qualifications
- 3 years of data analyst experience
- 2 years of experience in a professional environment (internships included)
- Bachelor's degree
- 2 years of experience in driving analysis for reports, data warehouse/data marts and cubes
- 2 years of experience in working with business to write detailed and accurate functional specifications (report specifications, data and metrics specifications, persona based use cases)
- 6 months of data modeling experience
Preferred Skills
- Experience in creating logical data models
Professional Skill Requirements
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- Able to successfully facilitate group meetings
- Previous experience in software or business process development
- Solid understanding of software architectures, Microsoft products, software and development lifecycle
- Demonstrated experience with relevant project technology (e.g. SQL, data models, web applications, reporting)
- Technical skills to enable thorough analysis of multiple system components and interfaces
- Sound problem resolution, team building, judgment and decision making skills required
- Ability to manage resources and project schedule, and provide feedback to business
- Ability to operate independently, manage tasks and supervise the work of others
Our people are our most important asset and we invest considerable resources to provide on-going training that builds and extends professional, technical and management skills in all areas. Your learning program will be determined by the requirements of your specific role but will usually involve specialized skills as well as personal and leadership development. You will work with your manager to determine what skills you need and how to build them.
Candidates who are currently employed by a client of Accenture or an affiliated Accenture business may not be eligible for consideration.
Applicants for employment in the U.S. must possess work authorization which does not require sponsorship by the employer for a visa.
Accenture is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
**Please note you will be re-directed to JobServe to submit your resume
About Accenture:
Accenture is a global management consulting, technology services and outsourcing company. The main reason people choose a career at Accenture is because of the work we do. With many of the word’s leading companies as our clients—including 91 of the Fortune Global 100, two-thirds of the Fortune Global 500 and government agencies around the world—every project we undertake is helping shape the future of business, government and society.
Another reason to join Accenture is because our people enjoy working here. Join Accenture and you will work in a dynamic environment, teaming with motivated people that make ideas happen. We have an extremely diverse workforce, but are united by a common culture. We promote an inclusive, collaborative and entrepreneurial environment where people use teamwork, respect and trust to achieve goals.
You’ll find the flexibility that helps you strike the right balance between your work and personal life. And you’ll have access to a renowned training program throughout your career to support your career development and stay at the top of your game. We offer around 80 more training hours than our competitors—in 2006 alone we invested nearly $700 million in training and provided an average of 75 hours of training per person.
With 152,000 employees in 49 countries, we bring together the unique experiences and perspectives of a diverse workforce to help clients become high-performance businesses. In other words, we help them become more successful in every part of their business, from strategic planning to day-to-day operations. This includes helping them identify and enter new markets, increase revenues in existing markets, and deliver their products and services more effectively and efficiently.
The sheer scale of our technology capabilities and client engagements differentiates what we do from most other companies. Many of our clients are global organizations, so we build systems that operate across several countries and even continents—creating the digital infrastructure of business today. We know better than most how to mobilize the right people, skills, alliances, and technologies to deliver innovation and results that create high-performance businesses.
Visit our website to learn more about Accenture and all of our career opportunities.www.uscareers.accenture.com
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