RS21 is a dynamic and rapidly growing company with 65+ employees doing good with data to make a significant impact. Our nine core values empower a culture of integrity, learning, risk-taking, creativity, and consistent improvement. We prioritize helping our team achieve a healthy work-life balance with flexible schedules and remote work options. As a testament to our exceptional culture, we were named a Fast Company Best Workplace for Innovators.
We are seeking an experienced Analyst to plan, manage, and execute on high impact projects in a rapidly changing professional services environment, ranging from early childhood data analyses/visualization to organizational business intelligence strategy design. Our projects are unique and varied, as is the ideal candidate’s experience and interest.
This is a rewarding and challenging role that requires a proactive and consultative mindset with exceptional proficiency across a diverse blend of skillsets: technical data concepts and programming, clear communication and strategic thinking, data visualization and storytelling, writing, and ability to easily and comfortably zoom in and out of analyses at a macro-level down to row-level data validation. The ideal candidate will be comfortable with data modeling, visualization, and using a variety of analytic approaches to help solve complex problems.
This position will join our Data Analytics team out of our Albuquerque, NM headquarters.
Responsibilities:
- Act as a problem-solver and adviser in complex or mission-critical client engagements
- Extract, analyze, and interpret data from many different domains, to create compelling and intuitive visualizations using and/or representing complex and diverse datasets
- Develop, modify, and apply computer modeling and programming applications to analyze and solve mathematical and scientific problems across a variety of subject areas
- Integrate and harmonize disparate sources of data to create novel datasets that can be used to develop new insights and solutions
- Develop static and interactive data visualizations using COTS dashboarding tools, particularly Microsoft PowerBI
- Conduct day-to-day ad hoc analyses as needed for our clients
- Conduct qualitative and quantitative research to support new domain spaces and technologies
- Ideate, develop and document new processes for ad-hoc data extracts and analysis; develop and maintain reports; identify issues including defects in logic or data quality; capture business requirements including data definitions
- Interface with executive leadership, subject matter experts, end users, technology vendors and various stakeholders to ensure cross-functional buy-in
- Work collaboratively with external clients to assess drivers of quality, engagement, and utilization
Qualifications:
- 3-5 years' experience in a similar role
- BA/BS Degree preferred in a quantitative discipline
- Proficiency with modern approaches in data analytics (e.g., statistics, machine learning, econometrics)
- Demonstrated experience with data visualization tools, including Microsoft PowerBI and/or Tableau
- Solid expertise using statistical programming languages such as Python or R, data visualizations tools (Tableau and/or PowerBI), querying language (e.g., SQL)
- Ability to learn and engage effectively with new (an often proprietary) technologies to explore and extract data, identify the data story from existing data plus the data gaps, and use this to propose strategic recommendations to clients’ senior leadership
- Comfortable leading internal discussions and external client meetings, with a focus on summarizing and effectively communicating complex data findings to a wider audience
- Ability to contribute to client-facing dialogue and help stakeholders understand data output while facilitating the development of analytical reporting solutions to meet sometimes vague business needs
- Strong oral and written communication skills
Nice to Have:
- Experience with multiple business intelligence tools and data mining technologies
- Proficiency with SQL and/or SQL-based scripting languages
- Proficiency with ArcGIS/ESRI products
- Experience with understanding business context for analytics to help address performance issues, be able to identify and speak to drivers that impact business performance
- Ability to create visually compelling and user-centered presentations or interfaces
- Versed in a variety of technology stacks (Confluence, Jira, Trello, Google, AWS, SAP, Oracle, Microsoft, open source, etc.)
RS21 is committed to transparent and fair compensation. The final salary within this range will be determined based on relevant experience. Comprehensive benefits include flexible paid time off, medical, dental, and vision insurance with a generous employer contribution to premiums for employees and their dependents, a 401k plan with a 3% employer safe harbor contribution, and more.
Pay range
$85,000—$110,000 USD
About RS21:
RS21 is a rapidly growing data science company that uses artificial intelligence, design, data engineering, and modern software development methods to empower organizations to make data-driven decisions that positively impact the world. Our innovative solutions are insightful, intuitive, inspiring, and intellectually honest. With teams in Albuquerque, NM, Washington, DC, and distributed throughout the United States, RS21 is an Inc. 5000 fastest-growing company two years in a row and a Fast Company Best Workplace for Innovators
We help clients achieve programmatic goals, improve efficiencies, reduce costs, and maximize productivity using MOTHR, our AI engine, that allows users to seamlessly integrate data and reveal insights at hyper speed. We navigate complex data issues in the fields of healthcare, defense, safety, urban planning, energy, cyber, land use, climate, disaster preparedness, disaster recovery, space, and social equity.
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What We Do
RS21 is a rapidly growing, global data science company. We use artificial intelligence, design, and modern software development methods to empower organizations to make data-driven decisions that positively impact the world through innovative solutions that are insightful, intuitive, inspiring, and intellectually honest.
By providing data-driven insights that achieve programmatic goals, improve efficiencies, reduce costs, and maximize productivity, we help clients navigate complex data issues in the fields of healthcare, population health, infrastructure resilience, disaster preparedness, supply chain management, and crime.
Why Work With Us
RS21 is proud to be a values-based organization. Our values guide everything we do—from employee programs to choosing which organizations we partner with and what projects we pursue. We personify these values every day to empower a supportive culture of integrity, learning, risk-taking, making a difference, and helping each other grow.
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