Costco IT is responsible for the technical future of Costco Wholesale, the third largest retailer in the world with wholesale operations in fourteen countries. Despite our size and explosive international expansion, we continue to provide a family, employee centric atmosphere in which our employees thrive and succeed.

This is an environment unlike anything in the high-tech world and the secret of Costco’s success is its culture. The value Costco puts on its employees is well documented in articles from a variety of publishers including Bloomberg and Forbes. Our employees and our members come FIRST. Costco is well known for its generosity and community service and has won many awards for its philanthropy. The company joins with its employees to take an active role in volunteering by sponsoring many opportunities to help others.

Come join the Costco Wholesale IT family. Costco IT is a dynamic, fast-paced environment, working through exciting transformation efforts. We are building the next generation retail environment where you will be surrounded by dedicated and highly professional employees.

Data Analysts are responsible for importing, transforming, and validating (or querying) data with the purpose of understanding or drawing conclusions from the data to drive decision-making. They may use modeling techniques to form data in ways that can be analyzed and/or queried to identify data quality issues, anomalies, or deviations. They generate ad hoc reports and regular datasets or report information for end-users using system tools, database or data warehouse queries, and scripts. They also integrate data from multiple sources to produce requested or required data elements. They work closely with business groups, IT verticals, and governance teams to provide information to drive data quality and usage decisions.

In this position, the Data Analysts are responsible for querying data sources to import and transform private and/or sensitive data requested by the legal departments. This includes generating ad hoc reports. They work closely with Legal, Human Resources and Payroll departments as well as the IT Data and Analytics teams.

If you want to be a part of one of the worldwide BEST companies “to work for”, simply apply and let your career be reimagined.

ROLE

● Identifies and interprets trends, patterns, and correlations among various data points.

● Analyzes data for quality and completeness in accordance with established data governance policy and standards.

● Builds and maintains automated workflows using tools like Alteryx or Power BI to create recurring reports for various business areas such as Legal, HR and Payroll.

● Develops scripts to report and extract data for analysis.

● Designs and creates the data reporting environment, including data sources, security, and metadata.

● Creates data quality control processes to audit extracted lists ensuring data governance is maintained on all processes.

● Performs data profiling and business analysis (logical modeling) to determine the most effective ways to measure and provide data.

● Applies statistical methods and visualization techniques in generating business insights.

● Provides insights as to the best means to analyze and combine multiple data sources to form accurate and meaningful datasets.

● Defines and ensures adherence to new process improvement opportunities.

● Performs testing and validation of data and data sources.

● Applies best practices and data governance to database and reporting solutions.

● Performs data mapping and tracing from system to system in order to solve a given business or system problem.

● Supports initiatives for data integrity and normalization.

● Provides technical expertise on migration, mining, and cleansing of data.

● Supports and informs data stewards and custodians to ensure quality of master data changes and additions.

● Prepares documentation of relationships, integration, and flow of data.

● Supports tooling for capturing and maintaining metadata elements within a repository.

● Identifies and resolves problems often anticipating issues before they occur or before they grow; develops and evaluates options and implements solutions.

REQUIRED

● 2-4 years writing SQLs queries, report writing and presenting findings.

● Experience in extracting data from multiple sources, merging datasets, validating accuracy and delivering final outputs for analysis and reporting.

● Skilled in utilizing Alteryx to develop comprehensive end-to-end workflows, seamlessly integrating multiple data sources.

● Strong communication skills and able to work effectively with all levels of the business and IS.

● Responsible, conscientious, and possess a passion for excellence.

● Strong analytical skills with the ability to collect, organize, analyze, and disseminate significant amounts of information with attention to detail and accuracy.

● Detail oriented and possess strong problem solving skills, with the ability to analyze a situation for potential future problems.

● Strong technical documentation and writing skills.

● Self-motivated and able to work independently, with little supervision.

● Demonstrates an ability to grow technical skills and learn new technologies.

● Able to support off-hours work as required, including weekends, holidays, and 24/7 on call responsibilities on a rotational basis.

● Strong verbal communication skills.

We offer a comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off, health benefits - medical/dental/vision/hearing aid/pharmacy/behavioral health/employee assistance, health care reimbursement account, dependent care assistance plan, short-term disability and long-term disability insurance, AD&D insurance, life insurance, 401(k), stock purchase plan to eligible employees.

Costco is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Costco is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or any other legally protected status. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request to IT-Recruiting@costco.com

If hired, you will be required to provide proof of authorization to work in the United States. Applicants and employees for this position will not be sponsored for work authorization, including, but not limited to H1-B visas.

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