CAREERS
The work is really challenging, fulfilling and provides real value to our clients everyday.
Why work here?
We as VizxData employees, have a passion for data, business, and getting things done. We are a team of data lovers and technical experts who use our skills to help businesses big and small harness, utilize, and optimize their data. At VizxData, we work hard and we play hard - we genuinely love what we do and that's what makes us different. We take great pride in being Toronto's one of the elite BI consultancies. We've been based in Mississauga since our founding. We offer a competitive benefits package that includes health and life insurance, an annual bonus based on company performance, an annual salary hike based on your performance and a competitive paid time off.
The Position
We are excited to on-board a passionate, hard working person in this intermediate level role into our next great Data Visualization Analyst. This person will help drive our client's business decisions by creating dynamic and powerful data visualizations. The employee will work directly with customers who range from small independent companies to large financial institutions.
Key Professional Reasons
• We embrace the visual harmony and are passionate about the power of effective data visualizations, thus building highly functional and intuitive visualizations.
• We encourage innovation and ideas.
• We encourage the use of agile project management methodologies to strive for quality outputs.
• We promote and encourage individual and team development through internal and external networking, formal training, collaborative working.
As a data team, what we look for in you?
Generally
• Be able to clearly identify the questions and objectives that drive each project and use to guide both planning and refinement.
• Present your work in ways that empower the clients to make better-informed decisions.
• Be accountable for timeliness, completion and accuracy of the deliverables.
• Conduct relevant research, perform data analysis and create appropriate reports for clients.
• Respect and invite fair criticism while promoting the identification and open discussion of errors, risks and unintended consequences of your work.
Technically
Responsibilities & Initiatives
• Utilizing Tableau to build and improve interactive, web-based dashboards for clients and prospects.
• Interacting directly with the product team and relationship managers to scope out and build dashboards.
• Scale up existing dashboards and back end data so they are production ready.
• Being adept in the display of quantitative information through charts, graphs, tables, and bespoke visualizations.
• Being able to tell engaging stories in different mediums – presentations, infographics, or script input and support.
• Working with internal data resources to ensure you have the data you need to provide the answers.
• Intermediate understanding of data formatting, processing and transformation.
Core Competencies
• Effective and engaging written and verbal communication.
• Understanding how people perceive the visual display of data.
• Converting data and insight into engaging stories.
Experience & Skills
• All majors are encouraged to apply, however, a strong finance, business, engineering, mathematics, and/or statistics background is preferred.
• Extensive experience with data visualization tools, specifically Tableau/Microsoft Power BI.
• Experience with SAS language, SQL databases & data integration/ ETL tools such as Data Stage, Informatica.
• Strong quantitative and analytical aptitude.
• Excellent problem solving skills as well as ability to work with large amounts of data.
• Ability to meet tight deadlines and to effectively prioritize multiple projects.
• Proficient in MS PowerPoint presentation creation.
• Knowledge of R, Python, Qlik & Graphics editor like Illustrator is a plus.
"If you are driven by a strong penchant to build something great, a desire to innovate & contribute to the growth of businesses through data visualization and a commitment to achieve excellence in your work, VizxData will be the great place for you."
Can't wait to start? Please send us your CV with the form below.
We'll get in touch with you, if we find your profile fitting in the position.
* All applications will be dealt with in the strictest of confidence.