Data Analyst

**Data Analyst - Santa Ana, Costa Rica**

Are you passionate about helping others and providing a world-class customer experience? How about offering up your skills in a global business that is committed to moving money for better? Join Western Union as a Data Analyst.

**Western Union powers your pursuit.**

We are looking for someone who would be part of the Architecture and Engineering team in Western Union.

**Role Responsibilities**
- Should have knowledge of Data Quality Framework, Issue Management, Issue resolution and Data Quality Measurement and Metrics.
- Conduct intermediate data profiling and discovery to identify trends and statistical anomalies to inform data quality rule development.
- Utilize lineage tool to help understand data processing, vulnerabilities, and targets for data quality improvement.
- Identify, assess, monitor, document, and communicate potential quality issues in the way data is collected, stored, processed, or used.
- Evaluating system performance and design, as well as its effect on data quality.
- Collaborating with database developers to improve data collection and storage processes.
- Running data queries to identify coding issues and data exceptions, as well as cleaning data.
- Aggregate data quality measurement and metric generation into quality performance indicators.
- Reporting data analysis findings to management to inform business decisions and prioritize information system needs.
- Documenting processes and maintaining data records and adhering to best practices in data analysis and collection.
- Keeping abreast of developments and trends in data quality analysis.
- Liaise with Risk and Compliance SMEs to ensure critical data that is consumed in Risk and Compliance is covered under data governance scope.
- Drive process-improvements that would help in industrializing the Data Governance function.

**Role Requirements**
- Good to have knowledge of Cloud platform like AWS and AWS services offering like EC2, Network balancer.
- Good Experience in Data quality tool like Talend Data Integrator, Talend DQ, FICO-Rule repository, Alation or any other relevant data quality tools.
- Experience in data profiling, sampling, cleaning, enrichment, data quality rule development and implementation in Data quality tool, Measurement of data element using DQ dimension.
- Experience in Data Quality Metrics, trend analysis using Data visualization tool like Tableau, Power BI.
- Hand on experience on Snowflake, SQL query, Profiling, Analysis.
- Data Quality - Data Profiling, Cleaning, enrichment, Issue management and resolution, DQ on Realtime/ Batch, Talend DQ, Informatica DQ.
- You have deep understanding of conceptual/logical/physical data models and ability to design Entity Relationship models.
- Ability to build data pipeline across a variety of large data systems, including data discovery, data lineage etc.
- Should have programming and development exposure on Python, shell scripts, cypher query writing in neo4j, good to have knowledge of Java.
- Should have ability to perform Data analysis, analytics, and knowledge of AWS cloud, GCP.
- Knowledgeable on data architecture, data warehousing, and big data design and data modeling.
- Automate the creation of DQ Rules for greater efficiency in DQ management.
- Develop data quality metrics and executes data quality audits to benchmark the state of data Quality.
- Experience using DQ Tools to create and execute DQ rules and review and analyze defects and root causes
- Experience using AI/ML tools to automate the creation of data quality rules.
- Experience in implement of Data Governance at enterprise level which include Data management, stewardships, Governance, Policy, Business process, critical data element traceability and lineage.
- Develop and monitor the organizational data metrics to continuously align data needs with the privacy compliance monitoring requirements and data governance.
- Strong communication skills and ability to present complex information to all levels of the organization.
- Assess Data Maturity based on industry standard models & develop and collect monthly KPIs for the Data Governance program and Align data initiatives and projects to the business and technology strategy.

**We make financial services accessible to humans everywhere. Join us for what’s next.**

Western Union is positioned to become the world’s most accessible financial services company —transforming lives and communities. We’re a diverse and passionate customer-centric team of over 8,000 employees serving 200 countries and territories, reaching customers and receivers around the globe. More than moving money, we design easy-to-use products and services for our digital and physical financial ecosystem that help our customers move forward.

**Benefits**

You will also have access to short-term incentives, multiple health insurance options, accident and life insurance, and access to best-in-class development platforms, to name a few