Job Description

Ally and Your Career

Ally Financial only succeeds when its people do - and that's more than some cliche people put on job postings. We live this stuff! We see our people as, well, people - with interests, families, friends, dreams and causes that are all important to them. Our focus is on the health and safety of our teammates as well as work-life balance and diversity and inclusion. From generous benefits to a variety of employee resource groups, we strive to build paths that encourage employees to stretch themselves professionally. We want to help you grow, develop, and learn new things. You're constantly evolving, so shouldn't your opportunities be, too?

The Opportunity

The Sr Analyst, Consumer Data will be responsible for reviewing and performing the hands-on work required to convert existing data in a Hadoop ecosystem into robust, analytics-ready data sets. This includes working directly with the team's technology business partners to ensure code optimization and standard methodologies are followed. Additionally, the position will involve learning and understanding upstream data pipelines and source systems in part to assist with new developments and testing. The role will work in conjunction with analytics teammates to lay the data foundations for analytics tool development, understand the business context of all work items, and actively maintain the portfolio of improvement logic/code and data processes.

The Work Itself

* Support the Sr. Director of Consumer Data & Insights in delivering analytics data solutions which span different data platforms, such as Hadoop, AWS, Oracle, and DB2, etc.
* Work with internal and external partners to support defining and implementing business and IT vision and roadmaps for data solutions across all functional business areas (Finance, Product, Digital, Deposits, Customer Care, and Invest, etc.)
* Partner with key Consumer Data SMEs within the team as well as IT Architecture and Design teams on data solutions ensuring consistent use of coding standards and patterns and on the data transformation initiative to re-design existing data
* Help to build out robust analytics data management practices, including data quality and governance, data cataloging and reference data supporting the Consumer Analytics teams
* Act as a technical resource on the team on the use of standard methodologies and iterative testing to ensure requirements are met

The Skills You Bring

A well-qualified candidate will have the following attributes:

* 5+ years of hands-on experience in working with large data sets, with a focus on data development, data quality control, and process improvement.
* Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering, Mathematics, Statistics, or the like (STEM)
* Knowledge of writing Sophisticated SQL to large databases (Impala, Hive, etc.) is required
* Familiarity with data environments (Hadoop, AWS data lake, Snowflake, etc.) and how to best utilize the platform to perform data engineering work and value logic development supporting a diverse analytics team
* Solid grasp of R, Python, SAS, or similar data manipulation/analytics software packages
* Experience in any of the following are preferred but not required: Spark (PySpark, sparklyr), Cloudera Data Science Workbench, Anaconda, Jupyter, RStudio, and commonly used Data Science/Machine Learning algorithms
* Outstanding communication and interpersonal skill with attention to details
* Hands-on knowledge of getting work done via the Agile framework using Scrum and/or Kanban

How We'll Have Your Back

Ally's compensation program offers market-competitive base pay and pay-for-performance incentives (bonuses) based on achieving personal and company goals. But Ally's total compensation -- or total rewards -- extends beyond your paycheck and is designed to support and enrich your personal and professional life, including:

* Time Away: competitive holiday and flexible paid-time-off, including time off for volunteering and voting.
* Planning for the Future: plan for the near and long term with an industry-leading 401K retirement savings plan with matching and company contributions, student loan and 529 educational assistance programs, tuition reimbursement, and other financial well-being programs.
* Supporting your Health & Well-being: flexible health and insurance options including dental and vision, pre-tax Health Savings Account with employer contributions and a total well-being program that helps you and your family stay on track physically, socially, emotionally and financially.
* Building a Family: adoption, surrogacy, and fertility support as well as parental and caregiver leave, back-up child and adult/elder day care program and child care discounts.
* Work-Life Integration: other benefits including LifeMatters Employee Assistance Program, subsidized and discounted Weight Watchers program and other employee discount programs.

Who We Are

Ally Financial is a customer-centric, leading digital financial services company with passionate customer service and innovative financial solutions. We are relentlessly focused on "Doing it Right" and being a trusted financial-services provider to our consumer, commercial, and corporate customers. For more information, visit www.ally.com.

Ally is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, race, color, sex, religion, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, pregnancy status, marital status, military or veteran status, genetic disposition or any other reason protected by law.

We are committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodation to applicants with physical or mental disabilities. For accommodation requests, email us at work@ally.com. Ally will not discriminate against any qualified individual who is capable of performing the essential functions of the job with or without reasonable accommodation.