Decision Science Analyst

Role: Decision Science Analyst

Location: San Antonio, TX OR Plano, TX

Contract Length: 3 month open ended contract (with a high possibility of extension in 2021)

No. of openings: 3

*The manager would like to start all 3 candidates by 10/12*

Must have skills/technologies:

1. Would like to see 3-4+ years of experience
2. SQL is a must
3. Must be able to do SAS containers
4. Need to have experience in Agile environment

Nice to haves skills/technologies:

1. Tableau
2. Hadoop
3. Netezza
4. Snowflake is huge
5. Any big bank/industry experience

Job Description:

Requirements/Additional Details:

1. What are the top three technology tools this resource must have knowledge using? SQL, SAS, and Tableau
2. During COVID-19 will the resource be remote? Yes
3. Will the resource be required to return to a USAA campus after work in place is removed? Yes

Job Duties:

• Leverages business/analytical knowledge to participate in discussions with cross functional teams to understand and collaborate on business objectives and influence solution strategies.
• The business problems analyzed are typically medium to large scale with impact to current and/or future business strategy.
• Applies innovative and scientific/quantitative analytical approaches to draw conclusions and make 'insight to action' recommendations to answer the business objective and drive the appropriate change.
• Translates recommendation into communication materials to effectively present to colleagues for peer review and mid-to-upper level management.
• Incorporates visualization techniques to support the relevant points of the analysis and ease the understanding for less technical audiences.
• Identifies and gathers the relevant and quality data sources required to fully answer and address the problem for the recommended strategy through testing or exploratory data analysis (EDA).
• Integrates/transforms disparate data sources and determines the appropriate data hygiene techniques to apply.
• Thoroughly documents assumptions, methodology, validation and testing to facilitate peer reviews.
• Subsequent analysts should be able to rely on documentation to replicate and continue work.
• Understands and adopts emerging technology that can affect the application of scientific methodologies and/or quantitative analytical approaches to problem resolutions.
• Delivers analysis/findings in a manner that conveys understanding, influences mid to upper level management, garners support for recommendations, drives business decisions, and influences business strategy.
• Recommendations typically have an impact on business results.

Minimum Education:

• Bachelor's degree in Economics, Finance, Statistics, Mathematics, Actuarial Sciences or other quantitative discipline.

OR

• A Master's Degree in quantitative analytics or a related field

OR

• A PhD in quantitative analytics or a related field

Minimum Experience:

• If Bachelor's degree,

4 or more years of experience in a decision support analytic function.

• OR

If Master's Degree,

• 2 or more years of experience in a decision support analytic function.

OR

• If PhD,

1 or more years of experience in a decision support analytic function. Demonstrates competency in mathematical and statistical techniques and approaches used to drive fact-based decision-making.