Technical Business Analyst

TalentScout is an exciting startup that is looking to change the way recruitment is done.  We’re based in BGC and we’ve partnered up with headhuntr.io, a Candidate Intelligence start-up company based in San Francisco, California. Together, we are revolutionizing the recruiting process by leveraging data-science technology and our Candidate Intelligence database to find better candidates, faster.
 
TalentScout is a looking for a savvy, energetic, and enthusiastic Business Analyst who is passionate about data and process. You will be a crucial member of our data team serving as a bridge between our recruiting operations, data and product teams. You will be tasked with driving efficient business process within the organization to optimize the effectiveness of the company’s teams and resources. In addition, you will partner with the product team to gather, cleanse and transform unstructured data into rich and insightful recruiting intelligence. You will be continually challenged to grow and enhance your business and data skills while seeing the benefits of your contributions real-time. It is an exciting opportunity in an exciting field working with a great team towards a wonderful and promising vision!

Job Overview

• Engage and collaborate with key stakeholders within the recruiting and product teams to gather, document and on occasion assist in the delivery of data requests
• Define, document, monitor and continual work to improve the internal business processes of the data team
• Query and profile the product dataset utilizing various tools and methods
• Help identify data quality issues to ensure complete and accurate datasets
• Work with management and the data team to define prioritized action plans to cleanse, transform and enrich the company’s datasets
• Harvest data from third party sources to enrich data sources
• Perform testing / validation of delivered work products from the data and product teams
• Serve as a proactive project team member delivering high quality project deliverables (such as work estimates, business requirements, test plans, test results, etc.) within the defined project timelines

 
Qualifications

• 2-3 years of experience in Business Analysis
• Passion for data and leveraging it to solve real world business problems
• Excellent problem solving and analytical skills
• Excellent communication skills; above average command of English communication both verbal and written skill are required
• Strong SQL skills
• Detail-oriented self-starter with experience working on multiple projects in parallel, excellent follow-through, and the ability to solve unstructured problems with minimum supervision
• Experience with data querying tools
• Experience with RDBMS (like MySQL), data warehouses (AWS Redshift) and NoSQL databases (like MongoDB)

 
Desired Qualifications

• Experience in Big Data
• Experience with ETL tools such as Pentaho, Talend or Alteryx
• Experience with relational and star schema modeling concepts