Data Analyst

Our client is seeking a Data Analyst for a 12-month contract in Irving, TX. Will be working on an onsite schedule.
Contract Duration: 12 Months
Required Skills & Experience

• 3-5+ years of experience in data analytics, product analytics, or business intelligence, including 3+ years writing SQL against large datasets.
• 3+ years of advanced SQL experience (joins, window functions, CTEs) on large-scale cloud data platforms such as Databricks/Spark SQL.
• Experience building and maintaining dashboards and reporting in Power BI (or Tableau) for business stakeholders.
• Hands-on experience analyzing customer, transaction, or digital product data (e.g., loyalty programs, promotions, app engagement) to measure KPIs and business impact.
• Working proficiency in Python (pandas or similar) for data analysis.
• Strong attention to data quality, with the ability to validate data, reconcile sources, and explain discrepancies.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to coordinate across product, engineering, and data teams and to present findings to non-technical audiences.

Desired Skills & Experience

• Experience with product analytics tools such as Mixpanel, Amplitude, or Google Analytics.
• Experience with experimentation and incrementality measurement (A/B testing, test vs. control matching).
• Experience with loyalty, rewards, subscription, or fuel program analytics.
• Experience with Databricks notebooks/jobs and version control (Git).
• Familiarity with AI-assisted coding tools and Jira/Agile ways of working.
• Bachelor's degree in a quantitative field (e.g., Statistics, Mathematics, Economics, Computer Science, Analytics) or equivalent experience.
• Master's degree in Analytics, Data Science, or a related field is desired, not a must have.
• Databricks or Power BI (PL-300) certification is desired, not a must have.

Preferred Industry Experience

• Convenience Retail, Grocery/QSR, Digital & Mobile Apps, Loyalty & Rewards Programs, Fuel

What You Will Be Doing

• Serve as the embedded analyst for the Rewards and Fuel Loyalty product teams: partner with product managers to define KPIs, set up launch measurement, and report on results.
• Build and maintain master analysis tables in Databricks (SQL/Python) that track loyalty, deals and rewards, and fuel program performance.
• Build and maintain Power BI dashboards and recurring reports (e.g., member activity, promotion performance) and keep metric definitions consistent.
• Measure the performance and incrementality of offers, promotions, and partner programs using test vs. control and cohort methods.
• Analyze app engagement event data (Mixpanel) alongside transaction data in the data lake; identify and escalate data gaps and quality issues before they affect reporting.
• Deliver ad hoc deep dives (e.g., customer segmentation, member activity, offer redemption) and present clear, concise findings to product and leadership stakeholders.
• Maintain the team's analytics initiatives and backlog tracker, and document tables, methodologies, and metric definitions so work is reusable.