Senior Data Analyst
6-month secondment opportunity
REA Group is not your average digital business. From humble beginnings in a garage in Melbourne’s east in 1995, we have grown into a leading global digital business, specialising in property.
With bold and ambitious goals, we are changing the way the world experiences property. No matter where you're at on your property journey, we're here to help with every step – whether that's finding or financing your next home.
Our people are the key to our success. At the heart of everything we do is a thriving culture centred around high performance and care. We are purpose driven and collaborative, which drives innovation and our ability to make a real impact. As such, we’re proud to be named in Australia’s “Top 5” Best Workplaces two years in a row, as well as being recognised as a Best Workplace for Women.
Where the team fits in
The role sits within the Customer 360 tribe in the Customer Marketplace Portfolio of Customer Platform and Services Group. The tribe manages the platform and data that powers the best customer experiences.
You will be working in the Cupid team in the tribe and have a focus on how the individual customer and its data is represented, accessed, and transformed. The team is responsible for ensuring customer data is defined, high quality and available to internal customers, systems and processes. Cupid team will striving to maximise the value in the foundational data sets we curate and own.
What The Role Is All About
As a Senior Data Analyst you will help stakeholders and teams understand the end-to-end flow of data through the dozens of systems & datasets that intersect with the Cupid foundational data sets and how these systems interact from both a logical and technology standpoint. You will be driving and lead the visualisation of our data so we are proactively monitoring and data outliers.
This role will require excellent communication and collaborative involvement through all stages of data development – from concept and requirements through inception, specification, development, testing, release and retirement.
You will be responsible for:
- Extensive requirements gathering from analysts, product managers and other business stakeholders to ensure a majority of business needs and use cases are met.
- Ensuring these requirements are well understood by delivery teams through story kick offs and constant communication.
- Identifying and communicating any requirement dependencies, issues or risks identified through the analysis process.
- Documenting our databases and infrastructure landscape using techniques such as data flow diagrams, entity relationship diagrams, data schemas, etc.
- Enabling retirement of our legacy data warehouse through migration of datasets to BigQuery.
- Scoping the most valuable datasets for the Data Services team to produce and designing detailed data specifications for each.
- Assisting in the data quality assurance process and testing.
- Guiding and developing data trends and visualizing how to monitor this.
- Play a lead in upskilling data engineers on how to proactively understand our data.
Who We’re Looking For
- Expertise in data analysis and data design.
- Intermediate to advanced SQL skills.
- Strong knowledge of database concepts.
- A passion for data and how it can be used to solve real problems, as well as pedantic attention to detail.
- Strong analytical skills, including ability to interpret complex business needs and translate into requirements and data specifications for technical solutions.
- A love of documentation to go with excellent communication skills – both written and verbal.
- Familiarity with programming and system design.
- Ability to collaborate and build productive relationships with stakeholders across the organisation.
- Ability to manage the competing demands of multiple projects in a timely manner – #gsd.
- Ability to work productively and autonomously in a fast paced environment.
The REA Experience
The physical, mental, emotional and financial health of our people is something we’ll never stop caring about. This is a place to learn and grow. We’re committed to your development – both professionally and personally. Your experience with us is something we take seriously.
We offer:
- A hybrid and flexible approach to working.
- Flexible parental leave offering for primary and secondary carers.
- Programs to support mental, emotional, financial and physical health & wellbeing.
- Our Because We Care program offers employees volunteering leave, community grants, matched payroll giving and our Community Café donates 100% of revenue to charity.
- Hack Days so you can bring your big ideas to life.
- Performance recognition programs because hard work should never go unnoticed.
Our commitment to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
We are committed to providing a working environment that embraces and values diversity, equity and inclusion. We believe teams with diverse ideas and experiences are more creative, more effective and fuel disruptive thinking – be it cultural and ethnic backgrounds, gender identity, disability, age, sexual orientation, or any other identity or lived experience. We know diverse teams are critical to maintaining our success and driving new business opportunities. If you've got the skills, dedication and enthusiasm to learn but don't necessarily meet every single point on the job description, please still get in touch.
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