IT Solutions Consultant, Advanced Analytics

Tech Data ,
York, North Yorkshire

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Job Description

It's rewarding to work at a company where YOU make a difference!If you're passionate about the ever-changing IT industry and enjoy working in a fast-paced, collaborative progressive environment, you'll thrive at Tech Data!Join our team to connect the world with the power of technology! The IT Solutions Consultant for Advanced Analytics will collaborate with data engineering, solutions architects and business stakeholders across the organization for impactful data and analytics solutions. You will lead from a product management perspective specifically related to data science, machine learning and advanced analytics. Tech Data's business teams will come to the Solutions Consultant with challenges and aspirations related to reporting, information, visualization or advanced analytics. In this role, you will work from project initiation to completion including understanding the business needs, assist solutions architects in mapping end-to-end processes, and working with technical teams to deliver results and ensure that the technologies are adopted. The Solutions Consultant will drive the overall roadmap for an area of advanced analytics communicating delivery timelines and aligning with strategic business objectives. You should expect to work with technologies such as Azure SQL, Snowflake, Databricks, Tableau, Alteryx, Azure DevOps and advanced analytics capabilities in Azure as they align with the IT strategic direction. Experience in other cloud technologies is sufficient. A typical day is fast-paced, and dynamic and it is necessary to be able to switch gears at a moment's notice. Our business partners range from sales and marketing to back office functions like credit and finance so expect to support many different types of people and needs. Bring your curiosity, energy, enthusiasm and sense of humor to this dynamic global team. While we value your technical experience and education in data and analytics, we also greatly value your ability to build relationships, trust and collaboration between IT and business teams. You must be ready to jump in, seek to understand, be flexible, and constantly learn with eagerness and enthusiasm. Essential Duties & Responsibilities: - Act as a consultant to business teams across the organization to draw out and articulate data and advanced analytics needs - Discover and drive business requirement gathering - Translate requirements into end-to-end process maps in partnership with Solutions Architecture - Advise technical teams on requirements - Support technical team on designing solutions - Act as liaison between technical teams (developers, security, architecture, etc.) to push the solution design forward - Manage a rolling 12 month roadmap of deliverables that aligns with business objectives - Establish yourself over time as a functional expert for IT and business teams - Review and consult on test scenarios and test scripts - Support functional, cross functional, integration, end-to-end, and user acceptance testing - Participate in the development of end user training and knowledge transfer to business team trainers and experts - Ensure knowledge transfer to training specialist and reviews training material - Provide post go-live support Qualifications, Required Knowledge Skills & Abilities: - 5-8 years IT project and/or support experience in a product manager capacity with knowledge of cloud data warehouse systems, reporting tools, and advanced analytics. - Azure SQL, Snowflake, Tableau, Alteryx and Azure DevOps experience or related technologies required - Must be able to speak, present and write clearly to both senior executive business and technical audiences - Excellent analysis, communication and documentation skills required - Have a positive attitude and act with urgency, leadership and humility - Passion for data and analytics and the possibilities that it unlocks for customers, vendors, and internal teams