Principal Data Analyst - Card

Discover Financial
Richmond
Full timeUSD 131,300 - 149,800 annuallyFunction: Data Analytics & Business IntelligenceSkills: ["Collaboration","Consulting","Data governance focus","Ability to learn new technologies","Business-focused problem solving"]

Leverage analytics and technical expertise to design, build, and maintain well-managed data solutions that solve business problems across Innovation, Business Intelligence, and Data Management. Partner with business stakeholders to deliver dashboards, metrics, and insights, while driving data quality practices including metadata, lineage, and governance. Use scripting and AWS to mine complex data sources, support self-service data frameworks, and monitor/report data quality for the Card domain.

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Principal Data Analyst - Card

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Job Summary

Leverage analytics and technical expertise to design, build, and maintain well-managed data solutions that solve business problems across Innovation, Business Intelligence, and Data Management. Partner with business stakeholders to deliver dashboards, metrics, and insights, while driving data quality practices including metadata, lineage, and governance. Use scripting and AWS to mine complex data sources, support self-service data frameworks, and monitor/report data quality for the Card domain.
Location: Richmond
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Data Analytics & Business Intelligence
Seniority: Mid level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Build well-managed data solutions, tools, and capabilities to enable self-service data frameworks for data consumers.
  • •Partner with the business to design and develop tools, techniques, metrics, and dashboards for insights and data visualization.
  • •Drive analysis that delivers meaningful insights on business strategies.
  • •Maintain data quality management principles including metadata, lineage, and business definitions.
  • •Work with tech teams to manage security mechanisms and data access governance; monitor and report on data quality.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 131,300 - 149,800 annually

Key Requirements

  • •Degree in a STEM discipline (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics) with either 5+ years (Bachelor’s) or 3+ years (Master’s) in data analytics, or a PhD.
  • •At least 3 years of experience in at least one scripting language.
  • •At least 1 year using a business intelligence visualization tool.
  • •At least 5 years (implied via qualifications) querying, analyzing, and working with data languages and platforms (at least 3 years stated).
  • •Experience utilizing AWS services and delivering data governance/data quality practices (minimums stated under preferred).
Education:
Skills:CollaborationConsultingData governance focusAbility to learn new technologiesBusiness-focused problem solving
Tech Stack:PythonRSparkSQLAWSOpen sourceDigital technologiesData warehousesUnstructured dataDashboardsData visualizationMetadataLineage

Eligibility

Work Authorization:Sponsorship available.

Company Brief

Discover Financial
Provides consumer banking products, credit cards, personal loans, and payment services through the Discover brand. It operates a major U.S. financial network and serves individuals and merchants with lending and digital payment solutions.
Industry: Retail Banking
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Revenue: USD 10M to 25M
Growth: Public Company
Valuation: Public Company (Market Cap in USD)
Funding: IPO / Publicly Listed
Headquarters: Riverwoods, United States
Founded: 1985
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