Careers at Fitzgerald Analytics
Data Transformation Specialist with Web 2.0 Focus
New-York-City-Based Fitzgerald Analytics, a management consulting firm, is seeking Data Transformation Specialists with 2+ years database development and programming experience. The ideal candidate will have a background in computer science, engineering, physics, math, or another quantitative discipline. He/She will be:
- Honest and ethical
- Effective when working independently or in teams
- Comfortable with ambiguity
- Clear-thinking and effective despite stressful or unusual situations
- Entrepreneurial and comfortable with risk.
Why Choose a Career with Fitzgerald Analytics? To be Part of a Unique, Timely, and Promising Business Model. In our fifth year of consistent growth, we find our firm at an “inflection point” and are poised for exciting growth in the coming months and years… we are seeking additional teammates to be part of this opportunity.
About Fitzgerald Analytics: Architects of Fact-Based Decisions™
Fitzgerald Analytics is a boutique consulting firm which specializes in information management and analytics. Headquartered in New York, Fitzgerald Analytics serves Fortune 1000 clients both domestically and globally using its landmark Information Landscape™ Services and Analytics Pathway™ frameworks, which enable analysis that is more robust, more transparent, and more repeatable. We help clients to "make the invisible visible," enabling high-stakes decisions that are more fact-based, more successful, and more profitable.
Responsibilities
The candidate will have a key role in articulating for clients the strategic role analytics and effective data management can play in high-stakes decisions. The candidate is expected to:
- Profile source data from a variety of disparate sources and platforms
- Design ETL processes to integrate disparate data into consolidated, user-friendly data warehouses and data marts
- Assess and augment data quality
- Design, test, and maintain data architecture(s) and platform configurations to ensure optimal “fit with purpose”. For example, one data architecture may be required to publish insights to web applications, whereas another architecture may be optimal to enable more advanced analysis
- Design transformation methodologies from disparate data sources which ensure accurate, optimally descriptive metrics for analysis.
Activities
- Manage data transformation processes to ensure:
- Clear requirements for data structure and access tools (to enable effective analysis)
- Generate creative approaches to data sourcing and gap filling
- Data Governance: participate in development and enforcement of data usage standards
Skills and Knowledge Required:
- Knowledge of data transformation processes including:
- Designing data structures and database schemas to support analytical goals
- Transforming raw data sets into those schemas
- Use established best practices to audit and ensure data quality
- Experience extending MSOffice products with VBA preferred
- Ability to work independently and under close supervision
- Knowledge of financial services concepts
Candidate Experience:
The ideal candidate has experience in one of more of many areas that require familiarity with manipulating large datasets:
- At least 2 years experience as a database programmer / developer
- Experience with database modeling
- Financial Institutions: Experience with financial budgeting, personal finance, and/or mortgage and real estate investment
For more information about this opportunity, contact us at careers@fitzgerald-analytics.com, with the subject line "Data Transformation Specialist."
