Data Analyst

(Job Id W377672)
Posted on 7/12/2010
Location:

New York, NY


Job Type:

Contract


Salary: Not specified
Job Description
Description

Our client a global financial services firm and a market leader in securities, asset management and credit services is seeking a Data Analyst.

Location: New York, NY
Type of Position: Contract

Bachelors Degree

We seek highly organized and methodical people with skills in data analysis and problem solving across a range of technologies.

The job entails creating and executing large scale, automated, searches for sensitive data across production Mainframe and distributed computing platforms.

  • Maintain acute awareness of production environment stability

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  • Be resourceful and creative with a wide variety of available tools.
  • Use regular expressions, text parsing, and data mining techniques to search for defined data patterns.
  • Use data search tools, such as Vontu, and scripts written in Perl.
  • Be comfortable working in a UNIX environment, primarily Linux.
  • Write modular Perl scripts for parsing text and querying databases.
  • Work with databases, such as Sybase, Oracle, DB2, ADABAS, and SQL Server

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  • Critical thinking and problem solving.
  • Attention to detail.
  • Document and report writing.
  • Decompose complex problems and tasks in to achievable goals.
  • Navigating a large organization to find the people and resources needed to complete work assignments.
  • Parsing and manipulating textual data with Perl, sed, awk, and other Unix tools.
  • Data manipulation, analysis and reporting using text files, databases, and spreadsheets.
  • Relational databases: Sybase, DB2, Microsoft SQL Server
  • SQL queries across multiple databases.
  • Data leakage products, specifically Vontu.
  • Data analysis products, specifically Informatica Data Explorer and QlikView.Skills Desired:
  • Mainframe: NaturaL, ADABAS, TSO
  • Work experience in information security: technical controls, policy, incident response.

    Skills required:



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