Senior Data Analyst

About Alcon:

A career at Alcon is like no other.  We are innovative.  We are impactful.  We are the largest eye care medical device company helping restore sight and allowing millions of people worldwide to see brilliantly. We have a long history of industry firsts and a diverse highly talented team that keeps us on the cutting edge.

About your future role:

You will join a dynamically developing Data Strategy, Engineering and Innovation team, a part of global Digital, Technology and Data Hub. As a Data Analyst you will be a key team member responsible for gathering business requirements, verifying data availability and preparing data mappings, as well as supporting project teams in testing of analytical solutions.

Summary of Position:

IT Business Systems Analysis work involves acting as a liaison between the business/end users and IT systems development teams for business needs requiring IT based solutions including:

•Identifying and analyzing business needs, conducting requirements gathering, and defining scope and objectives

•Making recommendations for solutions or improvements to business processes that can be accomplished through new technology or alternative uses of existing technology Researching business requirements and documenting the relationships between the components of the application system (i.e., end users, business processes, data, applications, and devices)

•Translating business requirements into application requirements

Key Responsibilities:

• Gathering business and functional requirements
• Building and documenting relevant data models and design analytical solutions .
• Conducting analysis and establishing metrics for success.
• Preparation of data mappings and analysis of data availability in various systems (both cloud- and on-premise based).
• Preparation of project documentation.
• Work with business partners and engineering teams on addressing data quality problems in available data sets and addressing process issues causing data quality issues .

Key Requirements/Minimum Qualifications:

• 5 + years of experience in business and data analysis.
• Strong knowledge of SQL and relational databases concepts (at least 3 years of professional experience).
• Expertise in gathering business and functional requirements, conducting analysis and establishing metrics for success.
• Ability to articulate business requirements and bridge the gap between development teams and stakeholders.
• Experience in preparation of documentation (technical and end user).
• Ability to present business and technical issues, ideas, and recommendations in verbal, written, and presentation formats using storytelling and logical arguments.
• Experience with data lakes, preferably based on AWS services.
• Hands - on experience with Jira and Confluence.
• Experience working in an Agile team.
• Fluent English - we are a global team, so a very good command of English is a must.
• Excellent communication skills.

Nice to have:

• Knowledge of PySpark (able to read the code but no need to write the code)
• Knowledge of ETL (Alteryx, KNIME, AWS Glue) and data visualization (Tableau, Tableau CRM, Amazon QuickSight) tools highly desirable.
• Scrum Master role experience - work as a scrum master or willingness to educate in this area

What we can offer you:

• Very competitive salary level with flexible contract options.
• Market-leading performance based annual bonus.
• Attractive package of benefits.
• High visibility across Digital, Technology and Data hub, as well as across businesses.
• Possibility to grow your own team and introduce engineering best practices.
• Opportunity to work in a high paced agile environment and the chance to work with people who are passionate of delivering outcomes and a culture of simplification and ownership.
• Flexible working hours and remote work possibilities.

Work hours: 1 PM to 10 PM IST

Relocation assistance: Yes

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