Junior Data Operations Analyst

Job Summary:

The Data Operations team is responsible for the quality of data, brings support to the rest of tech and business teams, handling every request using JIRA (so having JIRA knowledge will be a must, if you don't have the knowledge as an organized person, you will learn how to leverage JIRA in almost no time). We offer an opportunity to learn and grow.

Responsibilities:

As a member of the Data Operations team, you will ensure that our data is always good quality, fresh and available by:

• Using our QA tools to proactively detect anomalies in the recently ingested data.
• Receiving and handling issue reports about data quality anomalies: missing data, mis-categorizations, outliers...
• Implement first line of data correction actions.
• NOTE: This is a technical position (see skills below) but it is not a software development position

Technical Skills:

In order to detect and handle data issues you need to bring these skills to the team:

• A decent understanding of SQL, because - in addition to all our internally developed tools - SQL will be your eyes into our massive stream of data. The team will give you queries, but you will be running them, modifying them as needed and interpreting the results to detect data issues and deciding on corrective actions.
• Linux shell command line, don't need to be a sysadmin but we expect you to be able to navigate yourself in your local machine and in a server box.
• English: half of the company doesn't speak Spanish and your job involves some written and spoken communication with people in other countries and timezones (and with different cultures by the way).
• Organization and communication: you will need to handle issues with different teams so is important to collaborate effectively by understanding and being understood.
• A basic knowledge of Python: your toolbox will include many Python scripts that you will need to understand, run, troubleshoot and improve over time.

Desired Skills:

These are things that you will use and learn on the job. If you are already familiar with them it will make your first weeks much easier:

• JIRA
• PostgreSQL
• EXASOL

Personal Skills:

• Team-work oriented
• Proactive and display initiative
• Motivated to learn
• Capable of working in a multidisciplinary environment
• Have good writing skills for technical incidents in English
• Able to analyze problem situations and present appropriate solutions
• Have obtained a technical/computing formal education certificate

What we offer:

• Competitive salary and benefits
•  A multifaceted job with a high degree of responsibility and a broad spectrum of opportunities
• Opportunity to work remotely with a dedicated and motivated team
• A remote work environment built on collaboration, flexibility, and respect
• Varied and challenging work to help you grow your technical skillset.

Centric Software provides equal employment opportunities to all qualified applicants without regard to race, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, color, age, religion, protected veteran or disability status or genetic information.