Nike
is hiring
Lead Data Analyst
About Our Company
NIKE, Inc., named for the Greek goddess of victory, is the world's leading designer, marketer, and distributor of authentic athletic footwear, apparel, equipment, and accessories for a wide variety of sports and fitness activities.
Operating segments for the Nike brand are: North America, Europe, Middle East and Africa, Greater China, Asia Pacific and Latin America. Wholly-owned subsidiaries include Converse Inc., which designs, markets, and distributes casual footwear, apparel and accessories. The company was founded by Bill Bowerman and Phil Knight in 1972 and is headquartered in Beaverton, Oregon.
Job Description & Responsibilities
Remote Work Option – Open to remote work, except cannot work in South Dakota, Vermont, and West Virginia. These candidates will be required to relocate
We are looking for an experienced Lead Data Analyst in our Asia-Pacific Latin-America (APLA) Data & Analytics team to lead and conduct full life cycle analysis, produce technical requirements that will help build data products and provide valuable insight for business to enable continuous improvements. The ideal candidate will have outstanding communication skills, proven data design and implementation capabilities, a good eye for business, and a highly developed drive to deliver results. The person in this role will be technically proficient and excel at collaborating with engineers, analysts, and business partners. This person will be a self- starter, comfortable with ambiguity, and will enjoy working in a fast-paced dynamic environment.
WHAT WILL YOU WORK ON?
- Work with business partners to understand business requirements
- Translate business requirements to technical requirements for the engineers
- Data mapping from source to target for building the data products
- Organize and transform information into comprehensible structures
- Manage and design the reporting environment, including data sources, security, and metadata
- Develop data models and validate the models to ensure that it meets requirements for consumption
- Identify, analyze, and interpret trends or patterns in sophisticated data sets
- Review data processing results, reports, and performance indicators against expectations to identify potential code issues
- Use data mining to extract information from data sets and identify correlations and patterns
- Locate and define new process improvement opportunities
- Monitor data quality and remove corrupt data
WHO WILL YOU WORK WITH?
This role is part of APLA’s Enterprise Data & Analytics Organization. You will work with other data engineers, architects, DevOps engineers, and various business partners in APLA as well as in Global Technology. You will participate as part of an engineering team where you will interact daily with a product owner/manager, analytics managers, scrum master, and engineers. As part of this team, or squad, you will be working to deliver analysis/requirement artefacts regularly in a collaborative and multi-functional paradigm. One of Nike’s maxims is “Win as a Team”. In all interactions, you will find success in teamwork, a positive attitude, and hard work.
Requirements
WHAT YOU WILL BRING?
- Bachelor/Master’s degree in mathematics, Economics, Computer Science, or related technical subject area or equivalent combination of education and experience
- 7+ years of proven work experience in a Senior Data Analyst or Business Data Analyst role
- Experience in SQL and a scripting language such as Python or R
- Strong problem-solving and analytical skills with the ability to collect, organize, analyze, and disseminate significant amounts of information with attention to detail and accuracy
- Good understanding of Hadoop and Big Data processing frameworks
- Experience working with BI tools like Tableau, Power BI or DOMO
- Good understanding of data modeling
- Experience with source control tools such as GitHub
- Experience working in AWS environment primarily Databricks, EMR, S3, Redshift, Athena, etc. preferred
- Experience with data warehouses/RDBMS like Snowflake & Teradata
- Ability to cleanse, curate, and manipulate data; as well as visualize and storytelling the results of an analysis
- Clear communication and storytelling via presentations
- Proven experience and ability to deliver results on multiple projects in a fast-paced agile environment
- Self-starter, highly organized and result oriented; and should be able to work with minimal direction
- Effective communication skills (with team members, the business, and in code)
What we offer
The annual base salary for this position ranges from $131,000.00 in our lowest geographic market to $285,000.00 in our highest geographic market. Actual salary will vary based on a candidate's location, qualifications, skills and experience.
NIKE, Inc. is a growth company that looks for team members to grow with it. Nike offers a generous total rewards package, casual work environment, a diverse and inclusive culture, and an electric atmosphere for professional development. No matter the location, or the role, every Nike employee shares one galvanizing mission: To bring inspiration and innovation to every athlete* in the world.
