Lead Analyst
Company: The Boston Consulting Group, Inc.
Location: Chicago, IL
Posted on: April 29, 2019
Job Description:
Lead Analyst (The Boston Consulting Group, Inc. - Chicago,
Illinois): Utilize data engineering, advanced analytics tools, modeling, and visualization to formulate and present
custom-developed client-facing analytics deliverables. Specific duties include: work with project stakeholders to
identify business needs and gather requirements for data analysis or deployment of existing BI tools; accelerate and
improve project data acquisition and access for project teams; collaborate with project team members to write
prioritized business requirements documentation, including scope definition and statement of work; gather, assess,
organize, profile, and clean data for business analysis; oversee data analysis and implementation of analytic solutions
by planning high quality business analysis of large data sets; analyze and interpret collected data to meet business
requirements; work with Analytics management team to distribute and organize work; organize professional development
and reviews for staff; orchestrate and/or conduct necessary training for knowledge team members; drive initiatives
to track and improve KPIs to monitor customer satisfaction and delivery time; identify customer needs and
discuss findings with key stakeholders; and provide support to project teams on subject matter expertise. Requires a
Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Business Analytics, Applied Mathematics or related
field (willing to accept foreign education equivalent) plus three (3) years of experience performing advanced data
engineering and data analytics in a business setting. Alternatively, will accept a Bachelor's degree in Computer
Science, Software Engineering, Business Analytics, Applied Mathematics and five (5) years of experience performing advanced
data engineering and data analytics in a business setting. Specific skills/other requirements (quantitative
experience requirements not applicable to this section) – must possess the following: (i) performing data management using at
least two of the following: Spark, Hadoop/Hive, Alteryx, PostgreSQL, and MongoDB; (ii) utilizing database
optimization including indexes and query optimization; (iii) utilizing data loading and management tools; (iv) performing
data cleaning; (v) conducting data modeling including variable transformation and summarization; and (vi) programming
and scripting experience in SQL and at least one of the following: Python, C#, JavaScript, and Scala.
Domestic/international travel required (up to 40%) based on company/client need. Must have unrestricted authorization to
work in U.S. M-F, 9:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. 45+ hours per week. Send resume to CHK_LA@bcg.com. An Equal Opportunity
Employer.
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