Part-Time Data Engineer (Milwaukee, WI)

Our Customer is an American financial services mutual organization based in Milwaukee. The financial security company provides consultation on wealth and asset income protection, education planning, retirement planning, investment advisory services, financial planning trust and private client services, estate planning and business planning. Its products include life insurance, permanent life insurance, disability income, and long-term care insurance; annuities; investments; and investment advisory products and services.

Our customer is looking for a Data Engineer on a contract basis to help support their business needs. This role is on-site in Milwaukee, WI.

Part-time, 10 hours/week

Responsibilities:

• Provides quantitative and qualitative data analysis and reporting of patterns, insights, and trends to decision-makers in order to drive business decisions and address business questions
• Creates and is accountable for high-quality, value-driven work that drives business outcomes; places the user in the center of decision making; and collaborates with the team for speed, agility, and innovation in work
• Creates and produces forecasts, reports, dashboards, etc., to tell a story through data
• Utilizes analytics and metrics to improve processes and provide data-driven forecasts that impact the business (costs, risks, etc)
• Deliver results to Department leaders and Business Clients
• Delivers results, insights, and recommendations (written, verbal, presentations, etc) to business audience to support business decisions
• Produce actionable reports that show key performance indicators, identify areas of improvement in current operations, and display root cause analysis of problems
• Deep expertise in at least one business area or domain, with a broad understanding of the business and domains surrounding the main focus
• Takes & applies design direction. Applies data visualization best practices to work deliverables.
• Seeks to understand business process, user tasks, and, as necessary, captures refined process documents
• Implement best practices, methodologies, standards and processes and share across teams. Occasionally, contribute to the development thereof.
• Owns analytics products and reporting environments end-to-end (as applicable), including governance and lifecycle management, setting standards, documentation, and partnering with technology teams to manage access controls, provisioning, and support
• Takes initiatives to design and develop deliverables based on the interpretation of findings and business client needs on a wide range of analytical topics
• Provides consultation to business clients and may participate in cross-functional teams to address business issues
• Serves as a trusted, consultative partner to business clients (including senior leaders) from intake through recommendation
• Owns benchmarking and external data participation to provide internal and industry context
• Contributes to the growth & development of the organization through actively sharing results & insights across the teams and with Business Clients
• Identifies & captures business requirements, develops KPI frameworks
• Regularly applies new perspectives, creative problem-solving, and inter-departmental connections to improve analytical capabilities
• Embrace continuous learning, curiosity, and ambiguity.

Skills and Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, MIS, Mathematics, Statistics, Business, or related field.
• At least 4-5 years of professional experience
• At least 4 years of experience working in an analytics-related field
• At least 3 years of hands-on experience doing analytics work
• At least 5 years of progressively responsible experience in research and data analysis, application of statistical research techniques, report or application development that supports business decisions/outcomes
• Expertise in the development and application of analytical tools such as SAS, SQL, MS Excel, SPSS, R, or other tools
• Visualization tooling like Power BI or Tableau
• Ability to access, gather, and analyze data from multiple internal and external sources to drive insights into business problems, decisions, and performance
• Ability to articulate this knowledge as an expert at the department level, and may be called on to provide insight at the enterprise level, to provide detailed analysis

We offer a competitive salary range for this position. Most candidates who join our team are hired at the median of this range, ensuring fair and equitable compensation based on experience and qualifications.

Contractor benefits are available through our 3rd Party Employer of Record (Available upon completion of waiting period for eligible engagements) Benefits include: Medical, Dental, Vision, 401k.

An Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.