Description:
Lead Data Analyst - Data Platform / Products

About us:

Target is an iconic brand, a Fortune 50 company and one of America's leading retailers.

Behind one of the world's best loved brands is a uniquely capable and brilliant team of data scientists, engineers and analysts. The Target Data Science & Analytics team creates the tools and data products to sustainably educate and enable our business partners to make great data-based decisions at Target. We help develop the technology that personalizes the guest experience, from product recommendations to relevant ad content. We're also the source of the data and analytics behind Target's Internet of Things (iOT) applications, fraud detection, Supply Chain optimization and demand forecasting. We play a key role in identifying the test-and-measure or A/B test opportunities that continuously help Target improve the guest experience, whether they love to shop in stores or at Target.com.

As a LeadData Analystin Data Science & Analytics, you will be responsible for drivingplatform adoption and engagementthat enable data capabilities across the organization. Having a solid understanding of data capabilities that include data storage, compute, data pipelining, machine learning, data compliance and more. By driving these data capabilities and keeping current with the ever-changing big data industry, you will help shape the direction and adoption of future data analytics and its data platforms. Customer engagement including support, training, consulting, and marketing for a series of data platforms/products to ensure and enable Target as a whole to successful with data.

As a Lead Data Analyst, you will work closely with the platform product teams including engineers and product owners to measure and understand patterns/trends of adoption and challenges clients face. You will be on the front line and sharing back features and issues back to the product team as well as document, test, and market new features/capabilities.

Product Teams at Target are accountable for the delivery of business outcomes enabled through technology and analytic products that are easy to use, easily maintained and highly reliable. Product teams have one shared backlog that is inclusive of all product, technology, discovery and design work.

As a Lead Data Analyst, you will work in the product model and will partner totrack, measure and collaborate with engineers and product owners to ensure clients are successful and engaged.. You will need to leverage the knowledge of your product, as well as, customer feedback and establish other relevant data points to assess value,anddevelop business casesfortheproduct.

You will encourage the open exchange of information and viewpoints, as well as, inspire others to achieve challenging goals and high standards of performance while committing to the organization's direction. You will foster sense of urgency to achieve goals and leverage resources to overcome unexpected obstacles, and partner with product teams across the organization to help them achieve their goals while pursuing and completing yours.Jobduties may change at any time due to business needs.

About you:

·4-year college degree (or equivalent experience)

· 5-6years of retail experience or equivalent domain experience

·Experience with data analysis and data pipelining utilizing tools such as Hadoop, Spark, SQL, Python, etc.

·Experience with dashboarding and reporting best practices

·Passion for driving a customer community of practice

·Strong communication& product marketingskills

·Experience with technology and ability to facilitate communication between business and technology teams

·Experience working in an agile environment (e.g. user stories, iterative development, scrum teams, sprints, personas)

·Proven ability to lead a body of work with cross function

· Ability to work in an unstructured environment & manage multiple priorities/tasks

Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)

Target will provide reasonable accommodations (such as a qualified sign language interpreter or other personal assistance) with the application process upon your request as required to comply with applicable laws. If you have a disability and require assistance in this application process, please visit your nearest Target store or Distribution Center or reach out to Guest Services at 1-800-440-0680 for additional information.

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