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Dow Jones Technical Analyst in Toronto, Canada

Job Description:

Technical Analyst

About us:

Dow Jones is a global provider of news and business information, delivering content to consumers and organizations around the world across multiple formats, including print, digital, mobile and live events. Dow Jones has produced unrivaled quality content for more than 130 years and today has one of the world's largest news-gathering operations globally. It is home to leading publications and products including the flagship Wall Street Journal, America's largest newspaper by paid circulation; Barron's, MarketWatch, Mansion Global, Financial News, Investor's Business Daily, Factiva, Dow Jones Risk & Compliance, Dow Jones Newswires, OPIS and Chemical Market Analytics. Dow Jones is a division of News Corp (Nasdaq: NWS, NWSA; ASX: NWS, NWSLV).

About the Role

The Dow Jones Partners and Licensing team (PAL) fosters and grows relationships with Partners and Licensors around the world, helping to power the Professional Information Business, the B2B division of Dow Jones & Company.

As a Technical Analyst within the PAL operations team you will partner with multiple business teams to report on the databases they own. You will work on multiple deliverables in parallel, be comfortable eliciting reporting requirements and translating these into solutions, prioritizing and communicating progress and blockers in an effective manner. You will report to the Head of Global Operations, PAL.

You Will:

  • Design, develop and maintain optimized solutions that meet reporting or process improvement needs.

  • Manage a portfolio of solutions, work with multiple stakeholders and communicate progress and blockers with the project team and sponsors.

  • Design and own reporting processes that are business centric and will improve the operational efficiency.

  • Identify high impact business problems and elicit requirements for solution development.

  • Write clean and readable code and optimized SQL queries.

  • Develop ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) jobs, visualization dashboards and tools that support processes.

  • Develop optimized scripts and visualizations that are fast and easy to comprehend.

  • Adopt existing best practices or contribute to improving them, including solution design, development, validation and documentation practices.

  • Work on ad hoc and urgent requests

You Have:

  • 3+ years of experience in SQL and Python with applications for data analysis.

  • Experience in ETL development.

  • Experience with version control systems like Git.

  • Experience with AWS services including S3, Athena, Glue.

  • Practical knowledge of common storage options including JSON, Parquet and ORC format

  • Experience in delivery through agile practices

  • An openness to different views and opinions and an appreciation for team diversity

  • Proficiency in data visualization (QuickSight, Data Studio, Tableau, Power Pivot) and dashboard building is a plus.

  • Knowledge in Data Science and predictive modeling.

  • Knowledge of other programming languages is a plus.

Our Benefits

  • Comprehensive Healthcare Plans

  • Paid Time Off

  • Retirement Plans

  • Comprehensive Medical, Dental and Vision Insurance Plans

  • Education Benefits

  • Paid Maternity and Paternity Leave

  • Family Care Benefits

  • Commuter Transit Program

  • Subscription Discounts

  • Employee Referral Program

Reasonable accommodation: Dow Jones, Making Careers Newsworthy - All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, protected veteran status, or disability status. EEO/AA/M/F/Disabled/Vets. Dow Jones is committed to providing reasonable accommodation for qualified individuals with disabilities, in our job application and/or interview process. If you need assistance or accommodation in completing your application, due to a disability, email us at talentresourceteam@dowjones.com. Please put "Reasonable Accommodation" in the subject line and provide a brief description of the type of assistance you need. This inbox will not be monitored for application status updates.

Business Area: PIB - CORPORATE PARTNERSHIPS

Job Category: Software Product Engineering

Union Status:

Union role

Since 1882, Dow Jones has been finding new ways to bring information to the world’s top business entities. Beginning as a niche news agency in an obscure Wall Street basement, Dow Jones has grown to be a worldwide news and information powerhouse, with prestigious brands including The Wall Street Journal, Dow Jones Newswires, Factiva, Barron’s, MarketWatch and Financial News.

This longevity and success is due to a relentless pursuit of accuracy, depth and innovation, enhanced by the wisdom of past experience and a solid grasp on the future ahead. More than its individual brands, Dow Jones is a modern gateway to intelligence, with innovative technology, advanced data feeds, integrated solutions, expert research, award-winning journalism and customizable apps and delivery systems to bring the information that matters most to customers, when and where they need it, every day.

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Req ID: 39004

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