Senior Associate, Data Analytics Engineering

What You'll Do:

This role will enable analytics capabilities across OCC by making internal application data accessible, usable, and/or actionable. Responsibilities may include identifying and prioritizing stakeholder data needs for ingestion and curation within a centralized data hub, governance of and improvements to analytics platforms and processes, consultation with stakeholders on leveraging data to self-service their own solutions, or end-to-end development of highly visible solutions.

Primary Duties and Responsibilities:

1. Identify and prioritize stakeholder data needs for ingestion and curation within a centralized data hub.
2. Support governance of and/or improvements to analytics platforms and processes.
3. Consult stakeholders on leveraging data to self-service their own solutions.
4. Create documentation and testing to ensure developed data solutions are accurate and easily understood by others.
5. Discover and share best practices on data and analytics development with members of the team and analysts throughout the organization.
6. Invest in continued learning on data and analytics best practices and evaluate opportunities to apply toward OCC’s analytics processes, solutions, and infrastructure.
7. Lead end-to-end development of highly visible solutions, as needed.
8. Assist analysts across the organization with general analytics questions/challenges, as needed.

Supervisory Responsibilities:

None

Qualifications:

• (Required) Ability to collaborate with stakeholders to craft or advise on solutions that achieve business objectives while also aligning development with internal delivery and security standards.
• (Required) Ability to communicate technical concepts with audiences of varying levels of technical background and synthesize non-technical requests into technical output.
• (Required) High attention to detail and ability to think structurally about a solution.
• (Required) Ability to navigate constraints and resolve most issues independently.
• (Required) Ability to learn new business domains and relevant technology to enrich our team culture and practices.
• (Preferred) Experience working within an agile environment.
• (Preferred) Experience using Jira/Confluence.
• (Preferred) Familiarity with the OKR goal-setting framework.

Technical Skills:

• (Required) Proficient in functional programming (e.g., Python and/or R) to write and deploy testable scripts to extract, integrate, and wrangle data.
• (Required) Experience with a data visualization/reporting tool (e.g., Tableau).
• (Required) Ability to write analytical SQL (e.g., JOIN, WHERE, UNION, CASE, subquery/CTEs) against relational databases.
• (Preferred) Experience working with REST APIs for data extraction (e.g., Basic Auth, Oauth, HTTPS, pagination, parsing JSON).
• (Preferred) Experience with a source code versioning tool (e.g., Git/Github).
• (Preferred) Experience setting up environments, configuration files, and application code with Linux shell (Bash).
• (Preferred) Exposure to data orchestration tools (e.g., Airflow) or schedulers (e.g., cron or task scheduler).
• (Preferred) Understanding of applied statistics and hands-on experience applying these concepts.

Education and/or Experience:

• (Required) Bachelor's degree in quantitative/analytical discipline (or equivalent professional training or 2+ years related work experience).
• (Preferred) Master's degree in quantitative/analytical discipline.

Certificates or Licenses:

None required.

Who We Are:

The Options Clearing Corporation (OCC) is the world's largest equity derivatives clearing organization. Founded in 1973, OCC is dedicated to promoting stability and market integrity by delivering clearing and settlement services for options, futures, and securities lending transactions. As a Systemically Important Financial Market Utility (SIFMU), OCC operates under the jurisdiction of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), and the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. OCC has more than 100 clearing members and provides central counterparty (CCP) clearing and settlement services to 19 exchanges and trading platforms.

What We Offer:

A highly collaborative and supportive environment developed to encourage work-life balance and employee wellness. Some of these components include:

• A hybrid work environment, up to 2 days per week of remote work.
• Tuition Reimbursement to support your continued education.
• Student Loan Repayment Assistance.
• Technology Stipend allowing you to use the device of your choice to connect to our network while working remotely.
• Generous PTO and Parental leave.
• Competitive health benefits including medical, dental, and vision.

Application Process:

1. When you find a position you're interested in, click the 'Apply' button. Please complete the application and attach your resume.
2. You will receive an email notification to confirm that we've received your application.
3. If you are called in for an interview, a representative from OCC will contact you to set up a date, time, and location.

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OCC is an Equal Opportunity Employer.