Data Analyst IV Job at Apex Systems in Burbank

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Job Description

What We Do/Project

As part of the Studio Economics transformation, we are building a modern, governed, and reusable data foundation to power financial forecasting, title economics, content sales planning, and AI-driven insights across the Studios. The Senior Data Analyst plays a pivotal role in shaping that foundation—translating product requirements into robust, scalable data models that serve both immediate application needs and long-term analytical and AI objectives.

Embedded within the Platform Pod, this role works closely with Application Designers, Platform Engineers, the Senior Data Architect, and product-aligned pods to ensure application-specific data models integrate seamlessly with the enterprise data platform. They act as the primary bridge between feature-level requirements and platform-level data strategy—ensuring reusability, governance compliance, and analytical readiness.

Responsibilities / Typical Day in the Role

• Lead Data Analysis for Application & Platform Alignment: Translate product features and user stories into well-defined data model requirements that support application workflows and downstream analytics.
• Partner with Application Designers and Engineers to profile, assess, and validate source data, ensuring it meets both functional and non-functional requirements.
• Collaborate with the Senior Data Architect to align application data models with canonical and semantic models across domains.
• Ensure Long-Term Analytical & AI Enablement: Design data structures and pipelines that serve both operational application needs and future analytical/AI use cases.
• Anticipate and define data capture, transformation, and enrichment requirements to support predictive modeling, forecasting, and advanced analytics.
• Recommend optimizations that improve data quality, timeliness, and completeness for decision-making.
• Governance, Quality, and Documentation: Partner with enterprise data governance teams to apply metadata, lineage, and access control standards.
• Define and execute data validation, profiling, and reconciliation processes to ensure trusted results.
• Maintain documentation of data definitions, mapping specifications, and lineage diagrams for both applications and analytical datasets.
• Cross-Pod Collaboration and Mentorship: Lead cross-pod workshops to resolve semantic conflicts, promote reusable data assets, and ensure consistent application of standards.
• Mentor junior analysts and support teams in data discovery, mapping, and quality assessment best practices.
• Represent the Platform Pod’s data perspective in architecture boards, product councils, and design reviews.

Must Have Skills / Requirements

• Proven expertise in data modeling techniques (relational, dimensional, wide-table for ML, data vault) and mapping business processes to data structures.
• 7-10+ years of experience
• Strong proficiency in SQL, data profiling, and transformation tools (e.g., dbt, Informatica, AWS Glue).
• Familiarity with distributed data processing and analytics platforms (e.g., Snowflake, Databricks, AWS-native analytics stack).
• Experience translating product features and user stories into well-defined data model requirements

Functional Knowledge / Skills

• You’ll thrive in this role if you:
  • Think in Domains and Products – You design data solutions that reflect business semantics and scale across use cases.
  • Bridge Technical and Business Worlds – You can translate analytical needs into technical specifications and vice versa.
  • Govern Through Enablement – You make governance easy to adopt by embedding it directly into design and workflows.
  • See Beyond the Immediate – You anticipate future analytical and AI needs when designing today’s application data structures.
  • Collaborate to Elevate – You work across functions to raise the quality, reusability, and reliability of data.
• Excellent communication and facilitation skills to influence design decisions across product, platform, and governance teams.

Technology Requirements

• Proven expertise in data modeling techniques (relational, dimensional, wide-table for ML, data vault) and mapping business processes to data structures.
• Strong proficiency in SQL, data profiling, and transformation tools (e.g., dbt, Informatica, AWS Glue).
• Experience in data quality frameworks, validation automation, and reconciliation methods.
• Familiarity with distributed data processing and analytics platforms (e.g., Snowflake, Databricks, AWS-native analytics stack).
• Demonstrated ability to align cross-team requirements into unified, reusable, and governed data solutions.
• Experience translating product features and user stories into well-defined data model requirements.

Interview Process / Next Steps

1. 1st round with Data Engineer
2. 2nd round with Product Owner

Additional Notes

• Sourcing in CA – Burbank. Hybrid schedule – 3 days on-site.

EEO Employer

Apex Systems is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate or allow discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, creed, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, or related medical conditions), age, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, genetic information, registered domestic partner status, marital status, disability, status as a crime victim, protected veteran status, political affiliation, union membership, or any other characteristic protected by law. Apex will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable law. If you require an accommodation in using our website for a search or application, please contact our Employee Services Department.

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