Guitar Center
is hiring
Data Analyst
About Our Company
We exist so music can persist. Our family of brands has put more instruments into the hands of more people than anyone on the planet. Come meet the family or, as we call them, The Guitar Center Company.
It's called Guitar Center. But there's more to us than guitars and basses.
We carry all kinds of musical instruments, plus essentials like amplifiers, recording equipment, lighting, live sound, DJ gear, with services like lessons, rentals and repairs. How do we do it all? With the most talented group of music-loving employees in the world. Their knowledge and passion for music has transformed us from being music retailers into being music champions.
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Job Description & Responsibilities
Data Analyst will be responsible for qualitative and quantitative analysis of enterprise-wide data. Connect with business teams to capture and analyze complex business problems. Provide guidance and support on Self-Serve capabilities using Tableau and Redshift. Chosen candidate will be a visual designer and storyteller, building Tableau data sources, statistical and regression models to support applications and will be part of a team operationalizing the model outcomes into user facing applications. Candidate should be more business savvy than Data Science savvy and will be involved in translating to stakeholders, figuring out issues and helping them deliver data stories better, in addition to hands-on involvement with data. Selected candidate will be affectively bridging the gap in communication between data scientists/ data engineers and stakeholders
Requirements
RESPONSIBILITIES/DUTIES
Highly experienced in developing Tableau Dashboards and data models using custom sql, data extracts and real time integrations with Redshift data base
4+ years of experience in full lifecycle implementation and support of BI solutions
4+ years of experience in design, development, testing, deploying and supporting data visualizations and analytics solutions using SQL on Amazon Redshift, Spectrum, Oracle DB as well as using Tableau, Kibana, Power BI and like tools
Very strong SQL skills mandatory to be self-sufficient with data access on Data Lake
Hands on experience in developing and managing Data Catalog, Data Dictionary & Data Governance models is a must
Hands on experience building regression, classification, Deep learning models and taking it to production with good accuracy rates
Experience in building unsupervised continuous learning models and work with data engineers to optimize and operationalize.
Should be hands on with R or Sagemaker, Jupiter notebook or like platforms to analyze and build models
Self-sufficient in handling large volumes of data with excellent SQL skills on columnar and relational data bases
Eager to learn / get trained on new Time series data stores like Apache Pinot
Familiarity or experience with Apache Pinot or like time series data store is a plus
Exposure to AWS Lambdas, Kubernetes, Kubeflow, Airflow for orchestration is a plus but not mandatory
Working knowledge on Operationalizing ML models through serverless architecture and support unsupervised continuous learning models is a plus
Take over and scale our data models (Tableau, Dynamo DB, Kibana)
Communicate data-backed findings to a diverse constituency of internal and external stakeholders
Participate in technical decisions and collaborate with talented peers.
What we offer
For our employees who are musicians we offer the unique opportunity of gig leave -take time off to share your music with the world and return to your job after your tour! Guitar Center offers robust benefits and perks, including Medical, Dental, Vision, 401K plus company match, mental health support, paid sick/holiday/vacation time, employee discount program, and tuition reimbursement options.
Pay Rate: $77,600 - 103,400 /yr depending on background and experience.