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# Data Analyst

- **Company:** Hays Specialist Recruitment LLC
- **Location:** Vienna, VA, United States
- **Experience:** Experienced
- **Salary:** $114,400.0 - $130,874.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Microsoft Excel, Data Analysis, Big Data, Data Validation, Data Cleansing, Data Governance, Data Transformation, Data Structures, Data Visualization, Desktop Computing, Document-Oriented Databases, Python (Programming Language), Raw Data, Power BI, SQL Databases, Data Processing, Scripting, Usage Tracking, Tools for Reporting
- **Published:** July 8, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.hays.com/job-detail/data-analyst--virginia_1185095

## About the Role

Applicants must be legally authorized to work in the United States. Sponsorship not available., * 2-5 years of experience in data analysis and reporting

 * Basic understanding of business and operating environment
 * Skill in data manipulation and scripting languages such as SQL, Python, or R, as well as advanced data cleaning and preprocessing techniques and tools
 * Effective skill with analytical techniques required for data usage and data cleaning
 * Skill interpreting, extrapolating and interpolating data for statistical research and modeling
 * Knowledge of various data structures and ability to extract data sources using various visualization tools (e.g., PowerBI, Excel)
 * Knowledge of data governance principles and practices
 * Bachelor's Degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Computers Science, Engineering, or degrees in similar quantitative fields
 * Data Analysis & Reporting - 2-5 years of experience analyzing data and creating reports
 * SQL / Python / R - Ability to manipulate, query, clean, and prepare data
 * Data Cleaning & Validation - Experience with data quality, accuracy checks, UAT, and validation
 * BI / Visualization Tools - Power BI, Excel, or similar tools for reporting and analysis
 * Data Governance Knowledge - Understanding of data definitions, business rules, documentation, and governance standards
 * 5-10 years experience

## Description

Partner with business stakeholders and other analysts to understand business data needs, capture data requirements, and perform data collection, processing and cleaning. Provide inputs for data science and business intelligence projects and perform analysis on large data sets to support departmental and organizational objectives. Solve a range of mostly straightforward problems with some increased scope and complexity.

 * Contribute to the development of technical requirements including data definitions, business rules, and data quality requirements; conduct data UAT, and data accuracy, validation, integrity research
 * Ensure compliance with deliverable reporting requirements by performing quality data audits and analysis
 * Identify and compile data sets using a variety of tools to help predict, improve, and measure the success of key business-to-business outcomes
 * Document data collection, cleaning, and governance procedures, maintaining comprehensive documentation to ensure transparency, repeatability, and compliance with data governance standards
 * Clean and organize raw data and generate descriptive statistics in support of business intelligence and data science projects
 * Partner with senior staff to communicate findings and insight to stakeholders
 * Collaborate with team members and participate in team projects and initiatives
 * Provide data research and write data queries for smaller analytics projects


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