Full-Time Business Advisory Jr. Professional II

NASA's Space Technology Mission Directorate (STMD) seeks to transform NASA missions and ensure American leadership in the space economy by rapidly developing, demonstrating, and transferring revolutionary, high-payoff space technologies driven by diverse ideas. STMD does this through a portfolio of programs providing funding to researchers and technology developers.

The Data Management Analyst will be responsible for developing and maintaining the system(s) that store and organize data about the technologies funded by STMD. They will oversee, organize, store, analyze, and report mission directorate data products. The analyst will develop and maintain associated documentation about the data, reporting with data, the database, and database interfaces with source systems and downstream systems.

This task requires communication with subject matter experts and non-technical stakeholders. The individual will ensure that all of this is always done with the utmost security and confidentiality, and in a timely manner.

Ideal candidate would pay attention to details and accuracy, have great teamworking skills, be willing to keep up to date with any changes in data protection laws and the latest database technologies, have excellent communication skills, and be able to explain technical issues to non-technical people.

Duties/Responsibilities:

1. Assesses current and projected database performance and recommends changes and enhancements.
2. Resolves data conflicts for matters such as naming conventions, data privacy, and data ownership.
3. Develop and maintain processes for ensuring data quality and stakeholder trust.
4. Develop processes or products for reducing the amount of analyst time spent resolving data issues.
5. Support STMD reporting requirements by working with the STMD staff to update data, and provide reports to ensure compliance.
6. Identifies, defines, and assesses the properties, specifications, and structure necessary for the database management system to meet current and future needs of the organization and stakeholders.
7. Coordinates with database stakeholders to identify needs, requirements, and objectives for the database and propose implementation.
8. Drafts training documentation and guidelines for analysts and end users.
9. Maintains knowledge of trends, developments, and best practices in database management systems and related technology.
10. Performs other duties as requested, which may include technical writing and meeting support.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree, preferably in a technical field
• One year of relevant experience
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Ability to extract, transform, and load various data types and sources
• Ability to learn Python and use an Application Programming Interface to push or pull data
• Ability to write reports
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Excellent interpersonal and customer service skills
• Excellent organizational skills and attention to detail
• Thorough understanding of file structures and design, information retrieval techniques, file access methods, and database controls and standards
• Proficient with Microsoft Office Suite or related software, especially Excel

Nice to have:

• Python and Jupyter Notebooks experience
• Pushing data to or pulling data from an Application Programming Interface experience
• Proficiency with a version control system like git
• Data modeling experience
• Experience creating Excel tables and functions
• Power BI experience
• Unix shell scripting knowledge
• Understanding of software development
• Understanding of technology development

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