Job description
Join a team of passionate thought leaders in a dynamic and collaborative environment! Cognizant Microsoft Business Group's Applied Innovation team is hiring now and we're looking for our next Data Analyst to join us.
The Microsoft Business Group (MBG) is a cloud-first, full-service Microsoft partner committed to delivering innovative technology solutions that solve human challenges. We are compelled by our core values to drive transformational results for clients across all company sizes, geographies and industries. The MBG team delivers full lifecycle solutions—from project inception and planning, through deployment to ongoing support and maintenance.
Why should you work at Microsoft Business Group?
- Multi Award Winning Business
- Official and Award-Winning Microsoft Partner
- Award Winning Databricks Partner
- Official GitHub Partner
- Cloud Native Organization
- Growing International and Diverse teams
- Hugely collaborative environment, where ideas and knowledge sharing is actively encouraged
What impact will you have in this role?
As a Data Analyst in the MBG, your goal will be to enable businesses to maximize the value of their data assets. You will be responsible for designing and building scalable data models, cleaning, and transforming data, and enabling advanced analytics capabilities through reports and visualizations. You will process raw data into relevant insights based on identified business requirements to deliver relevant insights.
What will the Data Analyst be doing day-to-day?
- Commanding a strong understanding of the strategic infrastructure (preferably Azure) required to make Business Intelligence rollout a success in the business at scale
- Development of presales package and drive Business Intelligence and Data Modelling offering in the consultancy business
- Contribute to or lead large scale DW/BI projects delivering an end-to-end Data Analytics delivery for customers
- Data modelling capabilities including designing effective BI data models
- Shaping an approach for governance and deployment of DW/BI in an array of organizations
- Making large or complex data more accessible, understandable, and usable.
- Creating charts and graphs, histograms, geographical maps, and other visual models that help to explain the meaning of large volumes of data, and isolate areas of interest.
- Transforming, improving, and integrating data from many sources, depending on the business requirements.
- Combining the data result sets across multiple cloud and on-premises sources
- Finding hidden patterns using data
- Delivering information in a useful and appealing way to users by creating rich graphical dashboards and reports
What type of experience does the Data Analyst need to be successful in this role?
- Being a natural leader with strong experience of end to end roll out of DW/BI solutions with a vision of how this technology can transform business
- Drive cultural change within businesses both externally and internally
- Working collaboratively internally with senior leads and with partners to deliver solutions and drive an integrated vision of DW/BI and cloud technology
- Embedding tangible and accessible data led change in a business.
- Strong understanding of Microsoft DW/BI enterprise methodologies and roll-out methodologies
- Strong understanding of dimensional modeling concepts – facts vs. dimensions, surrogate keys, and data granularity
- Ability to lead and guide discussions about conceptual, logical, and physical modelling
- Strong experience as a Business Intelligence developer using the Microsoft BI stack (Power BI)
- Expert knowledge of DAX/MDX and Analysis Services in large deployments of Power BI
- Working experience of SQL including writing, debugging, and tuning T-SQL queries, creating SQL tables, views and stored procedures and a strong understanding of relational databases
- Experience in designing ETL processes including knowledge of data warehousing strategies and theories
- Articulate and document architectural solutions and processes
- Establish and maintain collaborative relationships with stakeholders
- Knowledge of cloud computing, preferably of Azure
- Excellent and confident communication and presentations skills
Certifications (desirable)
Exam DA-100: Analyzing Data with Microsoft Power BI or Exam PL-300: Microsoft Power BI Data Analyst
Does the Data Analyst role require travel?
The role is currently 100% working from home, however some travel to our local office may be required in the future.
Security Responsibility
All employees must act in accordance with Cognizant Microsoft Business Group's corporate security standards.
ABOUT THE COGNIZANT MICROSOFT BUSINESS GROUP (MBG)
The Cognizant Microsoft Business Group (MBG) has a singular purpose—advancing your cloud modernization journey with focus, simplicity and scale. The Microsoft Business Group is an end-to-end Microsoft-centric cloud solutions and managed services provider that leverages extensive experience and IP to deliver constant innovation and business value, powered by the Microsoft Cloud platform. We are designed to reflect how you think about cloud transformation from a platform native perspective. Our dedicated experts and trusted blueprint deliver your digital difference through the Microsoft Cloud: Azure, Microsoft 365 and Dynamics 365. We turn digital potential into real business performance at speed.
Who We Are
We are the destination employer for Microsoft-committed professionals, providing depth of specialization and differentiated career paths. We have authentic conversations, build connections and grow careers while centering ourselves around our employees. We are a global team of certified consultants across all relevant technologies, coupled with cloud focused advisory consultants. With our supercharged talent, we are the world's best Microsoft partner. We prioritize investing and expanding.
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY
As a Global Cloud Transformation Consultancy business, the Cognizant Microsoft Business Group (MBG) understands diversity and inclusion in the workplace brings benefits to our customers, our business and most importantly, our people. We are committed to being an inclusive employer and we provide equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment.
The Cognizant Microsoft Business Group (MBG) prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other factors protected by federal, state or local laws. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including all aspects of the recruiting and employment life-cycle at Cognizant Microsoft Business Group (MBG).
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