Data Analytics Careers

Data Analytics Manager/Director
Data Analytics Managers/Directors establish and execute the vision for information, delivery, and management. They work on enterprise data warehouses, business intelligence analytics, and content/data management. They partner with other departments to establish priorities and allocate resources to implement business strategies while driving technology strategies that balance short-term and long-term needs and ensure that the data infrastructure can scale and evolve with the business. (BA/BS, 8+ yrs. Exp.)

Lead/Principal Analyst
Lead/Principal Analysts are subject matter experts, owning the process, methodology, delivery, and development of the analytical components of a product or a project. They provide the expertise and strategic focus that is needed to conduct complex analyses that may span multiple departments. (BA/BS, 7+ yrs. Exp.)

Business/Marketing Data Analyst
Business/Marketing Data Analysts collect, manipulate, and analyze data to address business information needs. They determine requirements, devise and evaluate data collection, clean and analyze data, and monitor and forecast trends. They measure the effectiveness of business activities and deliver actionable insights. (BA/BS, 3+ yrs. Exp.)

Data Metrics/Predictive Analyst/Data Reporting
Data Metrics/Predictive Analysts identify opportunities for leveraging company data to drive business solutions. They gather, organize, and analyze data in order to find the optimal combination of marketing mix attributes, such as pricing, and deliver predictive and prescriptive insights. (BA/BS, 3+ yrs. Exp.)

Business Intelligence Analyst
Business Intelligence Analysts collect and analyze data from within and outside the industry and the firm, and design tools and reports to identify threats and opportunities and enhance productivity. They use predictive modeling techniques to grow the business, forecast the revenue, and support the business with timely insights. (BA/BS, 2+ yrs. Exp.)

Digital Analytics and Insights Coordinator
Digital Analytics and Insight Coordinators collect, clean, and manipulate internal and external data. They gather, manipulate, and analyze internal and external digital data to drive insights and recommendations in order to optimize digital activity. They may monitor website performance and competitor trends and prepare briefings. (BA/BS, 2+ yrs. Exp.)

Digital Marketing Analyst (See Digital Marketing)

Data Science Manager/Director
A Data Science Manager/Director oversees the data science department’s strategies, activities, and competencies. They initiate data science activities to fulfill business information needs and goals and plan for talent development and work with other entities within and outside the organization to collaborate, establish priorities, and allocate resources. (MBA/MS, 10+ yrs. Exp.)

Data Scientist
Data Scientists are responsible for collecting, cleaning, and manipulating data to meet the company’s purpose. They work with the data analytics, engineering, and business teams to evaluate and improve existing products. Their responsibilities vary depending on the industry, and may include experimental frameworks for product, development, business forecasting, and machine learning. (MS, 5+ yrs. Exp.)

Data Engineer
A Data Engineer develops, constructs, tests, and maintains data architectures such as databases and large-scale data processing systems. They build, implement, and optimize predictive models by developing complex algorithms, artificial intelligence, and machine learning techniques, and applying them to big data. They have a working knowledge of message queuing, stream processing, and highly scalable ‘big data,’ which are massive amounts of digital information to improve business operations. (BA/BS, MS, 5+ yrs. Exp.)

Individual Contributor/Senior Independent Contributor
An Individual Contributor is a professional specialist without management responsibilities who contributes to data teams within an organization. They focus on functional/technical delivery of activities such as data engineering and modeling. An individual contributor may become a senior independent contributor within a firm, with a focus on technical skills. (BA/BS, or MBA/MS)

The three levels of experience are: Level 1= 0-3 yrs. Exp., Level 2= 4-8 yrs. Exp., Level 3= 9+ yrs. Exp.

Database Manager/Director
A Database Manager/Director leads the design and development of database systems, provides guidance to database teams, and creates standard procedures to maintain the existing database and enhance the scalability and performance of its architecture. (BS, MS, 8+ yrs. Exp.)

Database Management Specialist
Database Management Specialists work with other information technology teams to prevent data breaches and ensure database performance by organizing whatever volume of data is needed. They analyze, design, test, implement, deploy, and maintain databases. (BS, MS, 5+ yrs. Exp.)

Database Administrator
Database Administrators set up databases according to a company’s needs and make sure they operate efficiently. They work as part of a team of computer programmers and managers to fine-tune databases and upgrade and test modifications as needed. (BS, MS, 2+ yrs. Exp.)

Database Coordinator/Associate
Database Coordinators/Associates are primarily responsible for all data record maintenance by direct-keying and uploading data files, controlling quality, and maintaining data integrity. They maintain department protocol and train users. (BA/BS, 0-3 yrs. Exp.)

Database Marketing Analyst
Database Marketing Analysts deliver effective marketing analysis and business intelligence reports to the director of analytics, the marketing director, or others within the organization. They use database queries and reporting tools on relational and transactional databases. They develop and present actionable insights based on data analysis. (BA/BS, MS, 0-3 yrs. Exp.)

Data Entry Assistant/Specialist
Data Entry Assistant/specialists create spreadsheets with large numbers and verify data by comparing it to source documents. This position requires a basic understanding of databases and good customer service skills. (HS Diploma, AA, 0-2 yrs. Exp.)