Job Description

What You'll Do:

This role will drive a team responsible for expanding OCC’s analytics capabilities by making internal corporate data accessible and usable to analysts throughout the organization. This role will be an active contributor to the design and build of our internal analytics data warehouse and the maintenance of the supporting extract, load, and transform processes. This role will also become an expert on OCC’s corporate data sets and support teams across the organization in successfully harnessing this data. This role will drive a team to collaborate with business users and technical teams across the organization to facilitate data-driven decision making by enabling exploration and analysis of historical and near real-time data access using on premise and cloud-based tools and technologies. This role will drive the team responsible for gathering requirements and designing solutions that address the problem at hand while also anticipating yet-to-be-asked analytical questions, as well as collaborating with team members in defining and owning processes for developing and maintaining our analytics platform to meet the company’s security and IT standards.

Primary Duties and Responsibilities:

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each primary duty satisfactorily.

Work closely with data analyst and business stakeholders to understand their data needs and provide support in data access, data preparation, and ad hoc queries
Automate data processes to reduce manual interventions, improve data processing efficiency and optimize data workflow for performance scalability
Integrate data form multiple sources and ensure data consistency and quality
Build data models to ensure information is available in our analytics warehouse for downstream uses, such as analysis and create dashboards or visualizations using Tableau, Power BI to present insights
Maintain performance requirements of our analytics warehouse by tuning optimizations and processes
Create documentation and testing to ensure data is accurate and easily understandable
Promote self-service capabilities and data literacy for business users leveraging the platform through development of training presentations and resources
Discover and share best practices for data and analytics engineering with members of the team
Invest in your continued learning on data and analytics engineering best practices and evaluate them for fit in improving maintainability and reliability of analytics infrastructure
Assist analysts in solving their analytics questions/challenges

Supervisory Responsibilities

None

Qualifications:

The requirements listed are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the primary functions.

[Required] Ability to collaborate with multiple partners (e.g., Corporate Risk, Compliance, Audit, Production Operations, DBAs, Data Architecture, Security) to craft solutions that align business goals with internal security and development standards
[Required] Ability to communicate technical concepts to audiences with varying levels of technical background and synthesize non-technical requests into technical output
[Required] Comfortable supporting business analysts on high-priority projects.
[Required] High attention to detail and ability to think structurally about a solution
[Required] Experience working within an agile environment

Technical Skills & Background

[Required] Ability to write and optimize complex analytical (SELECT) SQL queries
[Required] Experience with data viz/prep tools (preferably Tableau and Alteryx)
[Preferred] Experience with SaaS tools and their backends, such as Jira and ServiceNow
[Preferred] Applied knowledge of Python for writing custom pipeline code (virtual environments, functional programming, and unit testing)
[Preferred] Experience with a source code repository system (preferably Git)
[Preferred] Familiarity with at least one cloud data platform, such as AWS or GCP
[Preferred] Experience creating and/or maintaining a cloud data warehouse or database
[Preferred] Exposure to data orchestration tools, such as Airflow
[Preferred] Understanding of applied statistics and hands-on experience applying these concepts

Certifications

None Required

Education and/or Experience:

[Required] Bachelor's degree in quantitative discipline (e.g., Statistics, Computer Science, Mathematics, Physics, Electrical Engineering, Industrial Engineering) or equivalent professional experience
[Preferred] Master's degree
[Required] 5+ years of experience as a business analyst, data analyst, data engineer, research analyst, data engineer, analytics engineer, business intelligence analyst, data analyst, data scientist, or research analyst

Who We Are

The Options Clearing Corporation (OCC) is the world's largest equity derivatives clearing organization. Founded in 1973, OCC is dedicated to promoting stability and market integrity by delivering clearing and settlement services for options, futures and securities lending transactions. As a Systemically Important Financial Market Utility (SIFMU), OCC operates under the jurisdiction of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), and the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. OCC has more than 100 clearing members and provides central counterparty (CCP) clearing and settlement services to 19 exchanges and trading platforms. More information about OCC is available at www.theocc.com.

What We Offer

A highly collaborative and supportive environment developed to encourage work-life balance and employee wellness. Some of these components include:

A hybrid work environment, up to 2 days per week of remote work

Tuition Reimbursement to support your continued education

Student Loan Repayment Assistance

Technology Stipend allowing you to use the device of your choice to connect to our network while working remotely

Generous PTO and Parental leave

Competitive health benefits including medical, dental and vision

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Step 3
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