Data Scientist - Ottawa, Canada - Ciena

Ciena

Verified Company

Ottawa, Canada

3 weeks ago

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Sophia Lee

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Description

Ciena is committed to our people-first philosophy.

Our teams enjoy a culture focused on prioritizing a personalized and flexible work environment that empowers an individual's passions, growth, wellbeing and belonging.

We're a technology company that leads with our humanity—driving our business priorities alongside meaningful social, community, and societal impact.

What will you do at Ciena?

As part of our transformational journey from operational reporting to advanced analytics, People & Culture team needs a Specialist to drive the development of People & Culture (P&C) business intelligence which includes reporting, data visualizations, and analytical data sources.

Data runs our business, and you will be storytelling with data to our Executive Leadership Team, our P&C Leadership team and various functions across the organization.

This expert is a continuous learner, has good data modelling skills and will work closely with data analyst and business users to deliver data insights via high quality visuals/ UX.

Responsibilities:

Perform exploratory data analysis for data modeling and data preprocessing to arrive at patterns and trends.
Partner with P&C teams to understand business requirements and translate requirements for building data models and visualization.
Own design, development, and support to data models and visualization dashboard pulling data from data warehouse (Snowflake / Oracle data warehouse) or other sources.
Share options for high quality visuals for the requirements of new / enhancement of operational reports / dashboards.
Produce monthly & quarterly metrics reports and curate meaningful business insights from that data for our Executive Leadership Team
Monitor data and complete data analysis with the goal of early detection of new trends and developing new insights
Use available tools and noticeable trends to build models for predictive analytics
As a back up to existing team, build PowerBI dashboards to address ad hoc requests from all functions within the P&C team (i.e. Business Partners, DEI, Learning, Total Rewards)
Adhoc analysis

Skills and Attributes for Success

5 years + of experience with data modelling, implementing PBI for visualization / reporting needs.
Expertise in analyzing and profiling data for data modelling and insight generation.
Strong expertise with writing SQL and good understanding of data warehouse concepts is a must.
Demonstrated ability in exploring technology across technology domains.
Experience handling employee data in a large multinational employees) organization
Ability to engage with partners, understand the people issues they are focussed on and support with metrics/ analysis for making decisions
Culturally informed; Ability to communicate insights to global teams
Experience building & automating reports and data pipelines and highlighting business results and trends in a way that is easy to understand
Love learning to use new data tools, analyzing the data, testing and laying out your results in just the right way
A collaborator and communicator who is energized by working with multidisciplinary teams
Able to analyze data from all sources, provide linkages between them, and highlight insights and conclusions
Curious to learn and understand sophisticated business problems
A master in using excel and other more enhanced data analytics tools
Exemplar precision and attention to detail

Minimum Qualifications

Bachelor's degree in IT, Business, Human Resources or other related fields of study
Previous experience in HR Reporting and /or Business Reporting/Analytics
Strong Microsoft Excel skills, practical knowledge of data visualization & reporting systems
Excellent data analysis and reporting skills
Familiarity with Power BI
Good communicator and collaborator with the ability to translate data into impactful insight

Additional Qualifications

Critical thinking discover trends and reach the accurate conclusions & recommendations based on findings
Proactive shares ideas on new ways of working, new tools, etc.
Workday experience & Human Resource knowledge would be an asset
Comfortable working in a multifunctional team leading through ambiguity

LI-SG

At Ciena, we are committed to building and fostering an environment in which our employees feel respected, valued, and heard.

Ciena values the diversity of its workforce and respects its employees as individuals. We do not tolerate any form of discrimination.

If contacted in relation to a job opportunity, please advise Ciena of any accommodation measures you may require.