About
The Senior Data Analyst is a fully-participating member of a cross-functional team working autonomously on technology development and problem resolution in the Enterprise Data & Analytics space. The role involves analyzing aspects of sourcing and transforming data to ensure it delivers on the insights required by Emirates Airlines and Emirates Group business stakeholders.
In this role, you will:
- Understand business domains well (e.g., airline, passenger, pilot & crew, aircraft, HR, Finance).
- Work with product owners and business users to understand operational source system data and business transformation/data cleansing rules required to ensure analytical solutions generate the insights required by the business.
- Operate with a data-driven mindset, helping the business generate insights based on data.
- Assist in the collection of data dictionaries and the creation of business glossaries.
- Maintain core data repositories as data sources and interfaces change over time.
- Understand and maintain data models and data interfaces for the analytical environment to understand availability of data for required business reports.
- Conduct simple data gap analysis and data profiling to analyze the availability and quality of incoming data and advise on any data cleansing rules or issue resolution options.
- Incorporate business transformation rules into solution designs or mapping documents to ensure timely business value.
- Document proposed or modified data interfaces, including fit for data models, data flow timing, source-to-target mapping, uniqueness criteria, and data transformation rules.
- Provide feedback on logical and physical data models to ensure they effectively meet analytical requirements and expectations.
- Collaborate with quality engineers to identify validation needs and ensure data satisfies the analytical needs of stakeholders.
- Stay current on evolving Emirates Airlines and Emirates Group data and analytics business knowledge domains to accurately assess data quality.
Qualifications & Experience
To be considered for the role, you must meet the below requirements:
- Bachelor's degree (12+3) in Computer Science, Computational Mathematics, Computer Engineering, or Software Engineering with a preference for Data & Analytics specialization, plus 2+ years of data analysis experience (or fewer for master's degree holders).
- Minimum 2+ years conducting data analysis tasks (e.g., source system identification, data dictionary/metadata collection, data profiling, source-to-target mapping).
- Proven track record developing and maintaining data documentation artifacts in organizations of similar size and complexity within project deadlines.
- Deep expertise in business transformation rules and understanding of data solution designs.
- Experience writing SQL queries to analyze data and provide results to business users or project team members.
- Experience with building information designs for data-centric projects in one or more areas, preferably within the airline industry (e.g., Data Warehouses, Big Data Environments for Analytics, Data API, Business Intelligence Solutions).
Knowledge/Skills
- Good communication skills, able to communicate rationale and approaches to peers and some business stakeholders.
- Operates with a "You Code It", "You Own It" mindset (i.e., supports the products they build).
- Demonstrated problem-solver, able to design and document solutions independently.
- Strong work ethic, being results-oriented, and accuracy/attention to detail are critical.
- Demonstrated initiative, able to work both independently and as a team member.
- Team player, able to collaborate with others to remove blockers, solve complex data problems, and debug/resolve issues.
- Able to deliver solutions (and associated value) iteratively.
- Is accountable and displays a positive attitude.
Key Technologies/Tools
- Big Data & Distributed Processing: Querying HDFS or ADLS file storage systems, with tools such as Hive or H-Base, ElasticSearch. Experience with AVRO / PARQUET file formats is a nice-to-have.
- Data Analysis, Modelling and Reporting: SQL, Snowflake, Data Vault 2.0, MicroStrategy, Power BI.
Salary & Benefits
Join us in Dubai and enjoy an attractive tax-free salary and travel benefits exclusive to our industry, including discounts on flights and hotel stays around the world. You can find more information about our employee benefits in the Working Here section of our website www.emirates.com/careers. Further information on what it’s like to live and work in our cosmopolitan home city can be found in the Dubai Lifestyle section.
