Posted in Information Technology 30+ days ago.
Type: Full-Time
Location: Seattle, Washington
Our Story
Lynden Incorporated is a family of transportation and logistics companies that deliver a total freight transportation package. Lynden IT provides innovative solutions to complex transportation problems. We encourage our employees to grow and develop within the company and believe our diverse workforce contributes tremendously to our success.
The atmosphere is cooperative and results-driven, but focused on balancing personal life, health, and well-being. Lynden offers many benefits for full-time employees including medical, dental and vision insurance, an Employee Assistance Program, a 401(k) match and a discretionary bonus practice.
Our Team
At Lynden our analytics team partners closely with business units of every function, and at all levels, to increase understanding and drive performance improvement. We’re embedded in operational teams throughout the organization where we advocate for data-driven decision making, and work closely with operational executives to effect positive change with data. We build end-to-end analytical pipelines to provide actionable intelligence to our stakeholders, as well as lead a community focused on enabling individuals for self-service by providing training.. We're a skilled team with capabilities across the spectrum of analysis, data engineering, data visualization, and analytics strategy.
About You
You love building compelling visualizations to provide detailed intelligence and interesting insights driving action and making a difference. Most importantly, you can take the data, together with your creativity and empathy, and put them into use to tell engaging stories.
You’ll provide analytical expertise and leadership to discover business opportunity, guide conversations and translate business needs into real business value.
You love to inspire others with the thrill of discovery, and empower them with tools, skills, and confidence to achieve this on their own.
Your curiosity will carry you as you work on complex data modeling challenges and use state of the art tools, working independently or with team members to develop sustainable and scalable analytics pipelines you will take pride in.
ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
Design, develop, test, automate, and launch new pipelines, dashboards and reporting solutions across all business functions. Apply strong problem-solving skills and analytical capabilities to enable business leadership to make effective, data-driven decisions.
Work with business and IT management to understand data and information requirements, and develop effective solutions. Determine, document and communicate supporting project plans, work estimates, and task prioritization.
Work with other team members to assist in the design, performance tuning and administration of the Business Intelligence platforms and ongoing analysis needs which includes understanding the data and where to get it, extraction of the data, processing it, presenting it, and providing training and ongoing support.
Ensure reporting assets provide consistent, reliable and automated delivery of data, troubleshooting any production issues.
Provide training, support, technical and domain expertise to end users of analytics systems through a variety of channels. Contribute to a catalog of knowledge for coaching and training to support best practices and conformance to defined standards and governance.
Participate in internal user groups to promote and enhance adoption of our BI tools.
Develop and utilize expertise in Lynden systems and business processes to maximize the identification of opportunity and facilitation of data-driven decision making.
QUALIFICATIONS
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
EDUCATION and/or EXPERIENCE
Bachelor's degree from a four-year college or university with an emphasis in technology, business, or mathematics, and four years relevant experience, or equivalent combination of education and experience.
LANGUAGE SKILLS
Ability to read, analyze, and interpret general business periodicals, professional journals, technical procedures, or governmental regulations. Ability to write reports, business correspondence, and procedure manuals. Strong communication skills with ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from groups of managers, clients, customers, and the general public.
OTHER SKILLS and ABILITIES
Requirements include:
Preferential consideration for:
PHYSICAL DEMANDS
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit and talk or hear. The employee frequently is required to use hands to enter information into a computer via a keyboard. The employee is occasionally required to reach with hands and arms.
The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.
Lynden Incorporated is an equal opportunity employer.
Candidate must pass a pre-employment drug test and background check.
